Welcome to our monthly report from the openSUSE Kudos recognition platform, where we take a moment to put a spotlight on the people who stepped up, helped others, and made this community a little brighter.

During the month of September 2026, 14 users received 14 kudos, and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. You can see stats for this and previous months.

Spotlight

September spread its thanks evenly, with fourteen people each receiving a kudo: @adrianSuSE, Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann), Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar), Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal), @hennevogel, Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) and eight more.

Kudos

Here are the thank-you notes themselves: 14 peer-to-peer kudos written by contributors about contributors, grouped by the person being thanked.

@adrianSuSE received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Infrastructure Heroes

“Many thanks for always being around and always willing to help Adrian!”

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Bernhard Wiedemann (@bmwiedemann) received a kudo:

From @jsegitz in Code & Engineering

“Thank you for your tireless work on reproducible builds!”

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Dominique Leuenberger (@dimstar) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Code & Engineering

“Reporting a bug is great, but submitting a fix right out of the gate is next level. Especially if it is for a spicy architecture like s390x. Thank you DimStar!”

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Geetansh Goyal (@geetxnshgoyal) received a kudo:

From @ddemaio in Documentation and Publishing

“Many thanks for sharing your Google Summer of Code experience on news.o.o. A fantastic & article”

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@hennevogel received a kudo:

From @akarsh in Code & Engineering

“Thanks for the quick reviews on my first OBS PR”

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Imobach Gonzalez Sosa (@IGonzalezSosa) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Code & Engineering

“Many thanks for making Agama changelog shiny and actually useful Imo!”

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Jan Baier (@jbaier_cz) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Code & Engineering

“Many thanks for your night watch over os-autoinst-distri-opensuse PRs Jan! You just helped to make Leap 16.1 RC greener in openQA”

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Gertjan Lettink (@knurpht) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Code & Engineering

“Many thanks for your quick feedback about opensuse-version-diff Gertjan. Your quick eye caught an obvious issue. Many thanks!”

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Lubos Kocman (@lkocman) received a kudo:

From @ddemaio in Code & Engineering

“Your new #diff code makes openSUSE stronger every day. Especially with people getting immediate facts about the software versions in Leap and Tumbleweed.”

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Max Lin (@mlin7442) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Support & User Assistance

“Many thanks for all your tireless help with getting Leap 16.1 RC out of the door Yuchen!”

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Martin Pluskal (@pluskalm) received a kudo:

From @kskarthik in Code & Engineering

“thanks a lot for the openSUSE packaging skills! it’s a very valuable assist in packaging chores”

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Santiago Zarate (@szarate) received a kudo:

From @lkocman in Code & Engineering

“Many thanks for your awesome help with the Leap 16.1 immutable modes in openQA Santi! I’m super happy that thanks to you we were able to release RC in the same day as it landed in openQA! Many thanks again!”

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@wrosenauer received a kudo:

From @bbreinbauer in Code & Engineering

“Thanks for working on Firefox and Thunderbird!”

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@Zaitor received a kudo:

From @dimstar in Code & Engineering

“Thank you very much for all your endless work to make GNOME better for openSUSE. You do tremendous work.”

Badges

Contributors earned 12 different badges in September, and here is an overview of the 8 most awarded ones. The full list of badges you can earn is on the badges page.

100 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 100 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
Awarded this month to @dimstar, @fstrba, @iznogood, @mcalabkova, @ojkastl_buildservice, @pushman and @StevenK.

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10 Tumbleweed Contributions
For submitting 10 Submit Requests to openSUSE:Factory.
34 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.

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First Tumbleweed Contribution
For submitting 1 Submit Request to openSUSE:Factory.
81 contributors earned this badge this month, too many to list here, but every one of them counts.

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Leap 16.0 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.0 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @dimstar, @jirislaby, @jsmeix, @mschreiner, @rn and @vcarvalho.

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Leap 16.1 Contributor
Recognition for submitting at least one pull request to Leap 16.1 or related appliance repositories on src.opensuse.org.
Awarded this month to @abergmann, @alois, @jirislaby, @jsmeix and @vcarvalho.

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linuxdays.cz 2026
For supporting LinuxDays.cz 2026.
Awarded this month to @dancermak, @jbaier_cz and @VPetras.

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Got First Kudo
Received your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @geetxnshgoyal, @jbaier_cz, @szarate, @wrosenauer and @Zaitor.

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First Kudos Given
Shared your first kudos.
Awarded this month to @akarsh, @bbreinbauer, @jsegitz and @kskarthik.

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Congrats on your kudos and badges. Keep up the great work everyone, and don’t forget to have a lot of fun!

Generated by kudos-bot-news-o-o from https://kudos.opensuse.org/api/reports/monthly for the period 1-30 September 2026.

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