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# Counting contributions # Counting contributions
The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays statistics The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays commit counts for
about contributors to Zulip and its projects. We display these contributors to Zulip projects. We display these statistics prominently because
statistics prominently because they are easy to compute and can be fun they are easy to compute, and can be fun and motivating for some of our
and motivating for some of our contributors; we do not consider them contributors.
to be a good way to measure someone's code contributions to a software
project.
More importantly, many invaluable contributions may not result in the We do not consider commit count to be a good way to measure someone's
contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback, contributions to a software project. Many invaluable contributions may not
translations, bug reports, participation in our [development result in the contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback,
community][dev-community]. These non-code contributions are essential translations, bug reports, helping new contributors, and other types of
to making the Zulip project successful. participation in our [development community][dev-community]. These non-code
contributions are essential to making the Zulip project successful.
Thus, Zulip's policy is to always express appreciation for non-code Thus, Zulip's policy is to always express appreciation for non-code
contributions to the project whenever we discuss code contribution contributions to the project whenever we discuss code contribution