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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)

Reduce size of form cache to solve major performance issues - $500 for an initial 5 hours.

$500 Damian Lee

2263569
2252763

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

2341323
2419065
2371605

Fix entity field validation critical issues $5,500 Wolfgang Ziegler Report

2247085
2406103
2403817
2403823
2405943
2403485
2418119
2395831
2429037
2346373
2105797
2395831

Resolve various D8 memory/cold cache performance issues $1,000 Fabian Franz Report

2396939
2395113
2435075
2431259
2253593
2296009
1818628
2407177

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
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
Entity/Field Validation: Phase 3 $3,500 Wolfgang Ziegler 2395831
2418119
Views <-> Entity Integration $6,000 Daniel Wehner 2393339
2342045
2385443
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

356399
2451665

Investigate remaining SQLite problems in D8 $3,500 Andrei Mateescu Report

2318191
2428695
2454513
2454625
2454669

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
Jersey Shore Drupal 8 Sprint $1,500 David Hernandez 2280965
2351015
2030501
2341575
2447573
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

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
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
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
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
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
Fund Daniel Wehner to work on Criticals for 10 hrs/week for 4 weeks $4,000 Daniel Wehner