The Drupal 8 Accelerate program funds key initiatives. We are currently raising funds for the Promote Drupal Initiative.
The last Drupal 8 Accelerate program raised $250,000 and funded key efforts that helped with the Drupal 8 release. Thanks to everyone who helped make Drupal 8 and to all who helped fund this work. Below shows how the funds were distributed as grants.
Grant Title / Issues |
Amount |
Grantee |
Report |
Issue(s) |
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Reduce size of form cache to solve major performance issues - $500 for an initial 5 hours. |
$500 | Damian Lee | ||
| Investigate security implications of entity field validation - $500 for an initial 5 hours | $500 | Wolfgang Ziegler | Report | 2002180 |
| Drupal 8 sprint at Drupalcamp NJ | $7,200 | Peter Wolanin | Report | |
| Fix various critical + D8 upgrade path issues related to Entity Field API and Views | $2,000 | Daniel Wehner | Report | |
| Fix entity field validation critical issues | $5,500 | Wolfgang Ziegler | Report |
2247085 |
| Resolve various D8 memory/cold cache performance issues | $1,000 | Fabian Franz | Report |
2396939 |
| Responsive image module does not support sizes/picture polyfill 2.2 | $500 | Jelle Sebreghts | Report | 2260061 |
| Review existing D8 session and user authentication API and determine what's in the critical path | $500 | Zsolt Tasnadi | ||
| Sprint on the Drupal CI Project | $12,000 | Jeremy Thorson | Report | |
| Review critical performance/security patches | $1,000 | Lee Rowlands | 2429287 2429257 2099137 2396333 2351015 2429617 |
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| Triage security issues to identify any that block D8's release | $500 | Klaus Purer | Security Issues | |
| Leverage cache contexts to solve performance and security criticals | $4,000 | Fabian Franz | 2429287 2429257 2099137 2396333 2351015 2429617 |
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| Entity/Field Validation: Phase 3 | $3,500 | Wolfgang Ziegler | 2395831 2418119 |
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| Views <-> Entity Integration | $6,000 | Daniel Wehner | 2393339 2342045 2385443 |
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| External caches mix up response formats on URLs where content negotiation is in use | $1,000 | James Gilliland | 2364011 | |
| Optimize the route rebuilding process to rebuild on write | $500 | Daniel Wehner | Report | |
| Investigate remaining SQLite problems in D8 | $3,500 | Andrei Mateescu | Report | |
| Cover Key Scholarships and Contribute to Sprint Expenses for Drupal Dev Days Montpellier 2015 | $4000 | Julien Dubois | ||
| Fund amateescu 20 hours/week for 4 weeks to work on criticals | $8,000 | Andrei Mateescu | ||
| Resolve Critical Views issues related to render caching | $8,500 | Francesco Placella | 2381277 | |
| Fund catch 15 hours/week for 4 Weeks to Work on Criticals | $6,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | Report | |
| Upgrade validator integration for Symfony versions 2.5+ | $500 | Bernhard Schussek | 234035 | |
| All the sub-issues of the "Make Drupal 8 work with SQLite" | $3,500 | Andrei Mateescu | 2454513 | |
| Provide a beta-to-beta upgrade path in the head2head project | $3,200 | Andrei Mateescu | ||
| Fund catch 15hrs/week for 4 weeks to work on criticals | $3,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| Create a cache backend that pre loads multiple items in one getMultiple() call | $500 | Damian Lee | 1744302 | |
| Views render caching | $3,000 | Daniel Wehner and Francesco Placella | 2280965 | |
| Views render caching | $3,000 | Daniel Wehner and Francesco Placella | 2280965 | |
| Jersey Shore Drupal 8 Sprint | $1,500 | David Hernandez | 2280965 2351015 2030501 2341575 2447573 |
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| Jersey Shore Drupal 8 Sprint | $1,500 | David Hernandez | 2280965 2351015 2030501 2341575 2447573 |
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| Core Maintainers Critical Sprint - UK | $9,639 | Jess Myrbo | ||
| Critical issues maintenance hours for 4 weeks | $1,000 | Francesco Placella | ||
| Fund catch 20 hours this week and next to work on criticals | $4,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| SQL storage/fielditem callbacks inconsistent | $1,000 | Francesco Placella | 2478459 | |
| New Hampshire Drupal Camp TWIG Sprint | $1,793 | Scott Reeves Joel PIttet |
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Bugcrowd bug Bounty Program |
$10,000 | |||
| 5hrs/week reviews, general work on criticals | $2,000 | Daniel Wehner | ||
| Fund catch 15 hours next week to work in criticals | $1,500 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| Fund catch 10 hours for deep-dive performance profiling | $1,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| FieldItem callbacks are only called for SQL storage and field API is inconsistent with hooks | $1,500 | Francesco Placella | 2478459 | |
| Continuation of work - 20 hours over 4 week | $8,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| 10 hours to fix private security issues that block D8's release | $1,000 | Pere Orga | 100673 154999 98133 |
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| Five hours to write hook_update_N()/testing documentation | $500 | Jennifer Hodgdon | 2521776 | |
| Fund Fabian Franz to solve remaining performance and scalability related criticals | $4,000 | Fabian Franz | 2497243 2497185 2485119 2470679 |
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| 10 hours to fix URL generation does not bubble cache contexts issue | $1,000 | Francesco Placella | 2351015 | |
| Fund catch 20 hours the next four weeks to work on criticals | $8,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| Help progress Drupal CI development | $7,500 | Jeremy Thorson | ||
| Fund Fabian Franz 4 weeks 15hrs/week to work on criticals | $6,000 | Fabian Franz | ||
| Fund nod_ and droplet to work on private security issues | $2,000 | Theodore Biadala Ken Leugn |
98133 154999 |
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| Continuation: Grant for "Automatic entity updates are not safe to run on update.php by default" | $2,000 | Francesco Placella | 2542748 | |
| Automatic entity updates are not safe to run on update.php by default | $1,000 | Francesco Placella | 2542748 | |
| 15 hours/week for 4 weeks to work on D8 criticals, esp. upgrade path blockers | $6,000 | Francesco Placella | ||
| Fund Daniel Wehner to work on Criticals for 10 hrs/week for 4 weeks | $4,000 | Daniel Wehner | ||
| Fund catch 20 hours/week the next four weeks to work on criticals | $8,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| Fund Joel PIttet 20 hours/week the next two weeks to work on D8 theming criticals | $4,000 | Joel Pittet | 2492839 2558791 |
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| Fund catch 20 hours/week the next four weeks to work on criticals | $8,000 | Nathaniel Catchpole | ||
| DrupalCon Barcelona Criticals Sprint | $10,000 - $15,000 TBD | |||
| Fund fgm 5 hours on Remove ability to update entity bundle machine names issue | $500 | Frederic Marand | 2172843 | |
| MWDS Sprint | $3,100 TBD | |||
| Fund yched 10 hours to fix 'target_bundle' field setting critical | $1,000 | Yves Chedmois | 2064191 | |
| Fund klausi on 'arbitrary files' critical | $1,000 | Klaus Purer | 2587957 | |
| Fund triage of test fails around PHP 7 compatibility | $1,000 | James Gilliland Fabian Franz |
2454439 156541 |
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| Fund Daniel Wehner to work on Criticals for 10 hrs/week for 4 weeks | $4,000 | Daniel Wehner |
