On the topic of the WP download counter, it’s kinda amazing that these 244 people have code running on over a million sites after just six or so hours.
Welcome to the 244 people who's first contributions to a WordPress major release came out today with WordPress 5.0. This is the most amount of new contributors to a major version of any WordPress release.
— Aaron Jorbin (@aaronjorbin) December 6, 2018