Stay away from Drupal. Even if you use it as part of your job, don't contribute. It's a MLM scam.
Drupal's community is the worst, there's a small set of companies that really benefit from the contributions. Everyone else is really just feeding into their business model. The social justice stuff serves another purpose, it's used to control positions of authority in the community. Every contrib just helps them capitalize and every accusation helps them control what happens to the platform.
To put it in perspective, Acquia was just acquired at a valuation of $1 Bil. None of that money made it to long time contributors. Acquia employees who are also core contributors got significant bonuses. Most of them have also been heavily involved in social justice.
Not that a company should be paying people who don't work for them, but Acquia is the biggest player in the community and has benefited profoundly from free labor. Here's a run down of the capital investments that brought them to this point.
EquityZen is a marketplace for shares of proven pre IPO tech companies
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Each round of capital brings demands that don't always line up with priorities established by the community. Which is why these elaborate purges happen every few years.
The Code of Conduct started being enforced in 2010, right around the time Dries started talking about the enterprise. They started kicking people off the Board at that point, starting with Morten. There's been a continuous process of reshaping ever since, anyone who doesn't agree with Acquia's point of view eventually gets called a racist / sexist / white supremacist / alt-right nazi / etc.
Example: Jess received about $220k a month after the deal went through, along with 'options,' which are not stock but an asset that's tied to the value of the company. Catch, core developer for over 10 years who doesn't work for Acquia, got nothing. Jess chased out chx, Larry Garfield, and many others from the community, eventually replacing chx.
Example: Angie Byron has been speaking at pre-IPO events. She doesn't work for Acquia, but she did, and still has some of those same options. She runs the Women in Drupal group, who regularly compare men with Harvey Weinstein. If there is an IPO, she stands to make somewhere in the low-to-mid seven figures.
Acquia has been pursuing an IPO since 2012. The main reason it hasn't worked out is the fact they don't control their own code. Acquia acquired a number of other companies to shore up the IP situation but nothing has actually caught on / generated a lot of revenue. The community will remain a prison camp until the SJWs cash out, even then there's no guarantees. You're better off marketing your own modules as something other than GPL and selling them (even better if you do it for Wordpress, which has a healthier ecosystem for small business.)
In the meantime, don't contribute. It's not going to make you popular, it's not going to get you a better job, it's not going to make you smarter, it's just going to take up a lot of your time. On the off-chance you are a POC or lesbian who happens to get noticed, part of your job will be denouncing males over bullshit pretenses. The platform will ultimately remain a giant glob of spaghetti code with more and more restrictions around who can contribute and how they can contribute.
