In my last blog post, I explained, “Why I am one of the top contributors to Drupal?” and examined my ongoing contribution to the Webform module for Drupal 8. My post was inspired by Dries Buytaert’s annual who sponsors Drupal development post. Now I want to dig into that list of who’s and acknowledge other individuals contributing to Drupal.

I am deliberately limiting the discussed contributors to people that I have had minimal or no direct interaction with online or in-person. I want to explore their contributions based on their online presence versus directly interviewing them.

The Drunken Monkey

I genuinely value Drunken Monkey’s contribution to Drupal’s Search API module.

We rarely appreciate an API module until we have to start using them and diving into the code. The Search API module for Drupal 8 is a magnificent example of great code which conquers one of the hardest challenges in programming: naming things.

For a recent project, I was diving into Search API’s code, and Drunkey Monkey helped me out when I discovered Issue #2907518: Breakup tracking of content entities into smaller chunks to prevent memory limit issue. For the developers out there, if you read through the issue to the final patch, you will notice that Drunken Monkey manages to even improve some APIs while fixing the problem.

The Search API Guy

The first place to understand who is who in the Drupal community is people’s user profiles. The most immediate thing that stands out about Drunkey Monkey is that he is…

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