🎧 Pep Rodeja Ferrer: GitLab Wrapped

The main character energy repo. This is where Pep lived, loved, and occasionally lost sleep — 453 late-night commits and 628 weekend ones. Peak hour was 3pm, peak day Tuesday (541 commits), and the fix:feat ratio (901:526) suggests a lot of shipping first, asking questions later.

He touched MapProvider.tsx 92 times — Leaflet, then MapLibre, then Leaflet again in a different shape — roughly 1,000 edits across map files. If you have ever dragged an AoI on DataCosmos and it just worked, that was Pep. If it didn't, he'd already opened fix/layersNotWorking about it.

He also owns 137 edits to translation.ts, making him the single largest contributor to Open Cosmos being comprehensible to humans, and 159 to package-lock.json, making him the single largest contributor to merge conflicts. Balance in all things.

• "temp: this commit is not completed but I fear I will loose the changes" — a haiku about every developer's deepest fear
• "count", "name" "stack", "nest", "explain", "shorten", "drop", "keep", "grant", "use" - basically live tweeting a feature in single verb commits. 20+ commits in one day that read like he was crossing off a to do list in real time.
• "Remove the need for the hacky useRef" — closure, at last
• "fix: actually trigger the automated feasibility check in the layout" — emphasis on "actually", implying a previous, less honest attempt
• "TEMP: add a useless change" — commendable self-awareness
• "chore: remove circles!" — twice, both on the same day, both with an exclamation mark, because once wasn't satisfying enough
• Shortest commit message: temp
• Longest commit message: a small essay about refactoring the main routes to stop using the hash router — basically a design doc disguised as a git log

The oldest known Pep commit lives here: "Add basic JSON protocol", 8 July 2019. This is basically the foundation stone. Busiest at 5pm on Tuesdays, with 78 weekend commits for the road.

• "Add command that Theo thought of" — an entire commit attributed, generously, to someone else's idea
• "Add shit ton of logs" followed shortly by "Remove comments", "Add new line", "switch to print", "comment out logs"- sounds like a debugging session spiraling out of control.
• "Temp: temp logs" — Pep has a running relationship with commits that promise to be temporary. (Narrator: they were not always temporary)
• "rollback to master" followed immediately by "fix build errors in new version and "try new CI"- a mini crisis recovery arc in three commits.
• "Recover panic" right afer "Update storage.go- the classic pattern of "make one small change" -> "oh no it panics now". We've all been there.

Nearly perfectly balanced additions vs. deletions — the auth equivalent of "it's not you, it's me." 145 merges into 'master' alone.

• "fix: attempt to fix the deployment CI by removing openid grants on a client credentials application" — the word "attempt" is doing a lot of quiet, honest work in that sentence

Commit #1 in this repository is his. Create boilerplate, 9 March 2020. Every permission check, every role assignment, every "you do not have access to this organisation" any of us has ever hit traces back to a man typing "boilerplate" into a terminal on a Monday morning in the first week of lockdown.

• Shortest commit message in the whole archive: "Fix CI" — two words, infinite meaning, understood by every engineer alive
• Enable more linters — followed by Fix linter, Fix linter issues, Fix linter warnings and minors- Pep built his own cage and then lived in it.
• Make functional test pass, Make e2e test work, Pass all tests- That last one is not a description of a change. That is a declaration of victory.
• "fix: comments"- the ultimate zen commit messages. No context on which comments, what was wrong with them, or why they needed fixing. Peak minimalism.

Pep built the thing basically single-handed — admonitions, responsive grids, semantic HTML, Poppins, a tasking comparison table, and preview deployments.

• "fix: use slash instead of double space to avoid issues when editing the list" — a bug report so specific it could only have come from real, painful, lived experience
• "fix: perform permissions filter on the server, not the client!" The exclamation mark is his. He was excited. He was also right.
• "fix: remove myroslav's name"- a commit message that quietly throws a specific, named colleague under the bus in the public git log for all eternity.
• "fix: copyright year"- the most reliable, doomed-to-recur commit type in any codebase; you know there's another one of these coming in January.
• "fix: FWHM in hyper product"- a fix so technical with an acronym that only Pep and a spectrometer would understand.

An entire branch called v2/pgstac-temp-branch absorbed no fewer than 14 separate merges, each one presumably meant to be the last. It was not.

• "tmp/next" — as a full, complete, shipped commit message

The most weekend-committed repo of the lot: 61 of 133 commits (46%) landed on Saturday or Sunday, peaking around 9pm on Sundays specifically. Whatever order was doing to Pep's weekends, it clearly needed doing.

• "refactor(credits): satisfy gocognit + drop unused isLineItemPaidWithCredits" — a commit message that is 50% code quality tooling, 50% cry for help
• "satisfy gocognit limit", "chore: reduce cognitive complexity", "drop unused isLineItemPaidWithCredits"- Man vs linter, with the linter winning round after round.

The single most destructive relationship in Pep's history — one repo, 140,290 deleted lines, presumably a generated-code massacre that felt incredible to run.

• "Remove generated shit"- brutally honest, zero corporate polish.
• A commit simply titled "try". It's unclear if it worked.
• Also: "stupid linter" — the linter, for the record, was never named or shamed further, but the grudge is preserved forever in git log.

71% weekend commit rate. Genuinely astonishing. Whoever owns the on-call rotation for this repo owes Pep a drink.

• "refactor: centralise notification metric-type labels, fix STAC mislabel" — squeezing two unrelated fixes into one commit, a time-honoured tradition

Pep renamed layers to regions, sorted opportunities by index, and — in a moment of genuine leadership — committed:

• "Do not use \"swath\" anymore"

The word "swath" appears in nineteen of his own subsequent commit messages, including fix/swath, fix/swath-layer-crash, fix/tasking-swaths and feat/show-all-swaths. Rest in peace, the swath ban. October 2021 – October 2021.

Also in this repo: "chore: Add todos of things I don't understand" — the most honest commit in the history of this repository.

Combined 231 commits, a startling number of which are literally chore: version bump for vX.Y.Z [skip ci]. This is less a commit history and more a metronome. If these repos had a Spotify Wrapped, the #1 artist would be semantic-release, and Pep would be its most loyal, silent collaborator.