Category makes the top 20 downloaded projects for 4.7
A recent set of statistics posted in a Drupal mailing list thread confirms that, of the drupal.org projects that have a 4.7 branch, the categoryi module is the 12th most downloaded project! This places category in the same league as such long-standing Drupal favourites as the image module and the event module, and even places it ahead of the amazing up-and-coming CCK module. This is really quite stupendous, considering that the category module has been around for less than 6 months, and has managed to achieve such growth.
For the purposes of these statistics, 'project' includes any module, theme, theme engine, or translation that is available on drupal.org (Drupal itself is also a project, but is left out here for simplicity's sake). Also, note that these statistics only account for tarballs that are downloaded from drupal.org - they do not include checkouts of category direct from the CVS contrib repository.
Although this massive surge in popularity for the category module is a pleasant and flattering surprise for me, it is also something that I've been feeling for quite a while. The number of support reqests, feature requests, and bug reports that have been posted for category has also been growing at an alarming rate, and I have been struggling to stay abreast of them all. Please be patient as I try to find the time to get through them - after all, there are only so many hours in a day!
More developer and supporter help (in particular) would also be greatly appreciated with the category module. Some people have given their time over the past few months to help contribute to the category module: thanks in particular to Yogadex for your development work on the cac_lite module; and also to Ramdak for your tireless work in answering support questions. But overall, category remains largely a one-man project, and I'd be quite happy for more folks to get involved.