Steady Drupal is now listed on Drupal.org
Steady Drupal now has an organisation profile on Drupal.org, the official home of the Drupal project. You can see it here: Steady Drupal on Drupal.org.
It's a small thing. But if you're weighing up who to trust with an old website, it's worth explaining what that listing is and what it isn't — because a lot of the badges you see on agency websites don't mean very much, and I'd rather you knew which is which.
What the listing is
Drupal.org is run by the Drupal Association, the non-profit that looks after the project. Anyone offering Drupal services can create an organisation profile there, and all of them appear on the public Organizations page. The listing shows what services the organisation offers, where it works, and — this is the useful part — what it has actually contributed back to Drupal itself.
Contributions are the bit that can't be faked. They're issue credits: recorded, public, attached to real code that other people reviewed before it went in. My profile currently shows a fix I contributed to a contributed module where a purge routine was loading every record into memory at once and killing sites with large tables. On a real dataset of around 47,000 rows, peak memory went from a fatal 1GB crash to roughly 16MB.
That's not glamorous work. It's the kind of thing that only matters if you've ever had a cron job silently fail for six months. But it's on the public record, and you can go and read it.
What the listing isn't
It is not the same as being a Drupal Certified Partner. Drupal.org says this plainly on my own profile, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Certified Partners are the organisations that contribute the most to Drupal — the top few percent, mostly large agencies with staff paid to work on core. I'm one person. I'm not in that group and I'm not claiming to be.
So the profile isn't a seal of approval. It's a public identity: this is who I am, this is what I do, here's the code I've written that you can verify. Nobody vetted me to hand it out.
I mention this because "we're listed on Drupal.org" is the sort of line that gets used to imply an endorsement that doesn't exist. If another supplier tells you they're officially recognised by Drupal, ask them which listing they mean, and go and look at it yourself. It takes two minutes.
Why I bothered
Two reasons, and neither is mysterious.
The first is that if you're a charity or a school sitting on a Drupal 7 or Drupal 9 site, you probably don't know how to check whether a developer is real. There's no register, no licence, no professional body. A Drupal.org profile with contributions attached is one of the few checks available to you that doesn't require you to already understand the technology.
The second is honest self-interest: it's how people find suppliers in this community. Someone looking for help with an old site may well start at Drupal.org rather than at Google.
If you want to check anything about me, the profile is here. It links back to this site, and this site links to it. Both directions, on purpose.
And if you're currently on an unsupported version of Drupal and want a straight answer about what moving to Drupal 11 would cost, get in touch. Fixed price, quoted before I start.