During the last 50 days there has been 21 merges made by completely new bitcoin core contributors.

Here are their github aliases, give them some credit:Willtech,Mryandao,Nixbox,Bmwiedemann,Kristapsk,Skeees,Okayplanet,Joemphilip,Trulex,Moneyball,Honzik666,WillAyd,Buddilla,Ccdle12,Knoxcard,GabrielDav,Krab,Lutangar,Drewx2,Nvercamm,Vasild,If you want to follow bitcoin merges easily you can follow this twitter bot: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMerges via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2FxHgAS