He has a post for his work and I am making mine for my work.
Following what you cite, most of his commits should not get rewarded because there are way older. I now have a developer access to the repo so for us it did not make a difference who open/close the request since we have been working on the same branch.

And please, don't evaluate my work in term of number of commits compare to @kingswisdom. I focus on security and will always have a less quantitative impact on the source code.