Three years ago, I started to talk about "coming to an agreement within the Drupal community and sponsoring a Webform feature." In that blog post, I discussed creating a reusable and free-to-use agreement template with a defined process which could make it easier for organizations to sponsor feature requests. Now I want to share my current process for handling sponsored feature requests to the Webform module for Drupal 8.

For the past three years, organizations have reached out to me for paid support and feature requests. Adding the ability to import submissions was a feature request paid for by Kennesaw State University. Only two parts of my transaction with Kennesaw State University were publicly visible, the issue on Drupal.org (#2902977) and a blog post.

Sharing my process for handling paid feature requests will hopefully clarify how organizations can sponsor a feature for the Webform module and other Drupal and Open Source projects.

Steps for sponsoring a feature

Sponsoring a feature can be broken down into four key steps:

• Communication

• Documentation

• Agreement

• Payment

Communication

Good communication is one of the keys to the success of any Open Source project. Currently, there are several approaches to initiating the communication process for a sponsored feature.

The easiest and most immediate way to start a sponsored feature request is to create a user...Read More