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years of Drupal

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Drupal is 17 years old today. Quite an achievement for a web software to stay around, let alone stay relevant for such a long time.

I’ve been around for 12 years. Quite a stretch as well. Getting involved in this open source project as a designer has taught and brought me a lot. I put quite a bit into it as well.

I get a lot of benefits from things I learned in Drupal that I can apply in other contexts.

Provide rationale for design decisions. So much typing in issue queue comments!
Help people see the other’s point of view and then come to a shared decision.
Or agree to disagree, then still make a choice.
An appreciation and at least a “gist of things” knowledge of the complexity of software development. It helps with clarifying scope, finding a good place to start, and understanding what is difficult and what can be relatively straight forward.
Pragmaticism over purism
Edge cases are important
There’s a difference between patience and stubborness
Accessibility, multilingual, extensibility, modularity are hard but worth it
If you can’t imagine why somebody would want do do X, it’s always from a lack of imagination from your part
There’s always so much more to do
There’s only so much you can do
When you start taking things personal it’s probably time to take a break
It’s amazing what people can get done when driven by a passion for doing a good thing and doing it well.

… and many returns!