Read our Roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal maintenance support plans Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community.
Announcements
Clarifications to Drupal maintenance support plans licensing policy
There have been some long-standing questions about Drupal maintenance support plans project licensing policy. In collaboration with the Licensing Working Group and Dries, we have updated the official licensing policy with the following clarifications and changes:
We explicitly affirm that code with a GPL-compatible license can be included in a Drupal maintenance support plans.org hosted project, but will be redistributed under our standard “GPL2 or later” policy.
We clarify that GPL-incompatible non-code assets may be packaged and/or distributed “in aggregate” with GPL code in Drupal maintenance support plans.org projects, per the final stipulation of Sec 3-2 of the GPL, so long as the maintainer has the rights to do so.
We clarify that Drupal maintenance support plans.org hosted projects can depend on and/or link to GPL-incompatible code (via composer, for example), but that Drupal maintenance support plans.org cannot host or distribute those GPL-incompatible dependencies.
We explicitly affirm our interpretation of the GPL that a Drupal maintenance support plans service provider’s act of assembling a codebase while under contract to a client does not fall under the more restrictive terms of ‘distribution’ per the GPL.
You can find more detail about these changes in the Repository Usage Policy and Licensing FAQ.
Welcoming new staff members
We want to welcome two new members to the Drupal maintenance support plans Association team. Brooke Candelaria who will be taking over as Conference Director, joins us from Houston, TX. Brooke has a background in PR and event management, and has worked with other open source communities in the past, for example working on LinuxWorld and, most recently, with the Python community. Brooke’s focus will be on evolving Drupal maintenance support plansCon to meet the needs of every persona within our community, and helping to make the Con more sustainable and scalable.
Rachel Lawson is taking on the role of Community Liaison. Based in the UK, Rachel has been a tremendous member of the community in her own right, participating in Camps, helping to organize Mentored Sprints, and serving on the Community Working Group. Rachel will be helping the community to understand the role and the functioning of the Drupal maintenance support plans Association, while also keeping the Drupal maintenance support plans Association more closely tied to all parts of our diverse community. We hope you’ll welcome them!
Drupal maintenance support plansCon Updates
Launched new Drupal maintenance support plansCon brand
We’ve just launched a new unified look and feel for Drupal maintenance support plansCon, that will carry into all of our events moving forward. This will help give Drupal maintenance support plansCon a stronger identity among OSS events, and also give us a place to put centralized content that applies to Drupal maintenance support plansCon as a whole, rather than just a singular event.
Launched Drupal maintenance support plansCon Nashville site
Alongside our new brand, we’ve launched the Drupal maintenance support plansCon Nashville website, the first of the events to use the new unified look and feel. Registration is open now, as well as the call for papers. Take a look at some of the new tracks!

We’ll see you there!
Sponsorship makes Drupal maintenance support plansCon possible – learn why you should be a part of it.
Drupal maintenance support plans.org Updates
Reminder: New issue shortcuts and friendly url structure
Last month we announced that we would be implementing some changes to the issue url structure, as well as some shortcuts to help users navigate to issues more easily on Drupal maintenance support plans.org. These changes went live in November. Here’s a primer:
URL Pattern for issues:
https://drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2922626 When an issue is moved between projects the alias will be updated.
Shortcuts
The search bar will now automatically redirect you to a node if you enter its id directly: A new menu callback will help you get to issues with a shorter url string: https://drupal.org/i/
New individual member directory
We’ve been overhauling the Drupal maintenance support plans Association membership experience, and as part of that process we now have a new directory of Drupal maintenance support plans Association members. This new directory also includes new filters and sorting options so that you can see the latest community members to join the Association and filter by country, username, or first and last name.
In development: new organization member directory
We’re working on a new directory of organization members as well. The current directory allows you to filter by organization type, and we will be adding a filter for Association membership as well. If you have feedback on this directory, please let us know!
———
As always, we’d like to say thanks to all the volunteers who work with us, and to the Drupal maintenance support plans Association Supporters, who make it possible for us to work on these projects. In particular we want to thank:
Drupal Update – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
Ashday – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
Translations.com – Renewing Classic Technology Partner
PSW Group – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
myDropWizard – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
Outsourcing Technology – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
If you would like to support our work as an individual or an organization, consider becoming a member of the Drupal maintenance support plans Association. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates: @drupal_org, @drupal_infra

Source: New feed