o Istio in the previous 12 months. In Kubernetes, the mantra was &ldquo;chop wood, carry water,&rdquo; and we similarly want to reward companies who are fueling the growth of the project with contributions.</p><p>This year, we&rsquo;ve chosen to use <strong>merged pull requests</strong> as our <a href=https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/CONTRIBUTION-FORMULA.md>proxy for proportional contribution</a>. We know that no measure of contribution is perfect, and as such we will explicitly recon