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# Talking Drupal #361 - Drupal Credit System
Today we are talking about The Drupal Credit System with Matthew Tift.

[www.talkingDrupal.com/361](https://www.talkingDrupal.com/361)

## Topics
* What is the Drupal Credit system
* How is credit given
* How is credit tracked on the backend
* What is the trickiest part of integration
* Contributions are weighted, how is that handled
* Why are contributions weighted
* Are non code contributions included in the Drupal Credit system
* How do you run analytics on the data
* What is changing with the credit system
* Other communities are thinking of integrating a credit system what are lessons shared

## Resources
* [Drupal Contribution Credits](https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/contribution-credit)
* [Drupal Marketplace](https://drupal.org/marketplace)
* [Matthew’s website (the hub for everything he does)](https://matthewtift.com)
* [How We Compare: Leaderboards and Related Comparison Metrics in the Drupal Community (2021)](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/how-we-compare-leaderboards-and-related-comparison-metrics-drupal-community)
* [Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project (2021)](https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/contribution-recognition-and-the-drupal-project)
* Drupal's Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability (2021)
    * [All Things Open](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV76vZjPAl0)
    * [GitLab Commit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3BgmZXPK8)
* [Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen](https://podcast.chaoss.community/39)
* [DrupalCon Seattle: The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVnTyEFDCJs)
* [Who Sponsors Drupal Development? (2016)](https://matthewtift.com/who-sponsors-drupal-development)
* [The Cultural Construction of Drupal (2015)](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/the-cultural-construction-of-drupal)
* Gitlab issue on credit system
    * [Issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327138)
    * [Epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/8399)
* [Interpreting drupal core commit history](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/interpreting-drupal-core-commit-history)
* CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) metric
    * [Contribution Attribution](https://github.com/chaoss/wg-evolution/blob/main/focus-areas/community-growth/contribution-attribution.md)


## Guests
Matthew Tift - [matthewtift.com](https://matthewtift.com) [@matthewtift](https://twitter.com/matthewtift)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [www.nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [@nicxvan](https://twitter.com/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [www.epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [@johnpicozzi](https://twitter.com/johnpicozzi)
Cathy Theys - [@YesCT](https://twitter.com/YesCT)

## MOTW
[Entity Redirect](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_redirect)
Adds a configurable redirect after saving a node or other entity. The redirect is configurable per bundle. Also, given sufficient permissions (and presuming it is enabled for that specific content/bundle), individual users can configure their own redirects (on their profile edit page).