August 16, 2022
Today we are talking about The Drupal Credit System with Matthew Tift.
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Topics:
- What is the Drupal Credit system
- How is credit given
- How is credit tracked on the backend
- What is the trickiest part of integration
- Contributions are weighted, how is that handled
- Why are contributions weighted
- Are non code contributions included in the Drupal Credit system
- How do you run analytics on the data
- What is changing with the credit system
- Other communities are thinking of integrating a credit system what are lessons shared
Resources:
- Drupal Contribution Credits
- Drupal Marketplace
- Matthew’s website (the hub for everything he does)
- How We Compare: Leaderboards and Related Comparison Metrics in the Drupal Community (2021)
- Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project (2021)
- Drupal’s Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability (2021)
- Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen
- DrupalCon Seattle: The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars (2019)
- Who Sponsors Drupal Development? (2016)
- The Cultural Construction of Drupal (2015)
- Gitlab issue on credit system
- Interpreting drupal core commit history
- CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) metric
Module of the Week:
Entity Redirect
Adds a configurable redirect after saving a node or other entity. The redirect is configurable per bundle. Also, given sufficient permissions (and presuming it is enabled for that specific content/bundle), individual users can configure their own redirects (on their profile edit page).
