As a community moderator and maintainer, I keep coming back to something Donella Meadows wrote: "Systems can't be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned... We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone."
What made this year's growth possible was embracing messiness as a feature, and doing our best to solve real problems emerging from that messiness while leaving room for systems and models to advance and adapt. The looseness created velocity, which I watched unfold in a flood of discussions, PRs, and issues.
As someone who's merged hundreds of pull requests across MCP repos, I still feel like I'm barely keeping up with this velocity. I mean that in the most positive way. Better patterns and practices are emerging from the sheer volume of contributions and breadth of experience and expertise r