Session: Drupal’s Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability
Sustaining open-source projects is the decade’s challenge. Understanding how contributions are made—by volunteers, sponsored by an organization, or both—can create incentives for ongoing support.
The Drupal project has measured contributions in Drupal.org issues since 2015 using a credit system that captures contributions—including code, documentation, speaking at events, security review, etc.—from both individuals and organizations. This insight is used to shape incentives in the Drupal ecosystem.
Attendees will learn how Drupal’s contribution credit system works and why we would like to bring it to GitLab and other platforms. We hope that other open-source projects and orgs who want to understand their return on investment in open source can model their approach on this credit system and benefit from the insights we’ll be sharing during this presentation.
