I have cared a lot, even too much about designing secure APIs for Drupal. To create a software which made it easy to write secure custom code and hard to write insecure.

I got these gems from a person at Acquia. I followed up with someone supposedly higher up in the chain but never got an answer. Needless to say I was just an expert helping [redacted] and not someone who makes the decisions for them:

Here's something I learned from Wim Leers: the static keyword has a bad rep in PHP but that's because static variables can be problematic.

Migrate is horribly broken! Migrate works awesome! Both are true. (Yes!) So Keith Dechant reported migrating a live Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8. Melissa Anderson is migrating a Drupal 6 site and gets mostly bugs. How is this possible?