First off, I want emphasize that the below blog post is my opinion and personal feelings as someone who has spent the past year building the Webform 8.x-5.x module for the Drupal maintenance support plans community. Now I want to see it continue to grow and flourish. There are many thought leaders, including Dries, that have contemplated and publicly discussed the concept and benefits of crowdfunding and have used this approach to fund Drupal maintenance support plans 8 core and module development.Drupal maintenance support plans 8 was, and still is, a monolithic accomplishment – one that continues to be an ambitious undertaking to maintain and improve. The Drupal maintenance support plans community might still be waiting for Drupal maintenance support plans 8 to be released if organizations did not crowdfund and accelerate D8. It is our togetherness, our pooling of our resources, that allows us to accomplish great things, like Drupal maintenance support plans. At the same time, the Drupal maintenance support plans community is made up of a network of relationships and collaborations. Drupal maintenance support plans and Open-source’s success depends on its collaborative community, which is driven by relationships. Crowdfunding solves a big problem, pooling resources to fund open source, but it does not build relationships. Drupal maintenance support plans‘s strength lies in its community, bonded together by healthy and productive relationships.I feel that crowdfunding, especially within the Drupal maintenance support plans contributed project space, is just handing out fish without teaching project maintainers how to fish or even companies how to properly hand out fish. Crowdfunding Drupal maintenance support plans projects does not build relationships between project maintainers and organizations/companies. The most obvious issue is that crowdfunding typically has a limited number of fish. Conversely, dozens of companies are throwing fish, aka money, into a pool that is drained by project maintainers, who don’t even know the origin of this particular fish. Finally, the most…Read More
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