Drupal Association secures €201 000 from Sovereign Tech Fund to bolster infrastructure
The Drupal Association has secured €201,000 from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize its GitLab infrastructure, targeting security issue workflow migration, ecosystem-wide CI/CD optimization, and new contributor tools for UX and design.
This latest investment follows a previous €300,000 contract awarded in early 2024, which supported Drupal’s transition from proprietary tooling to the GitLab platform. The association announced that the new funding will complete critical infrastructure work, including replacing an outdated security portal and improving tooling for thousands of contributors.
Drupal’s GitLab instance at git.drupalcode.org, maintained by the Drupal Association, supported 7,276 contributors working on 69,204 issues in 2024. These users represent a globally distributed open source community supporting high-stakes deployments across public, nonprofit, and commercial sectors.
The upgrade plan includes finalizing the migration of the security issue management system—currently running on an unsupported Drupal version—into GitLab. This will enhance integration with modern developer tools and streamline onboarding for security team members.
Continuous integration and testing pipelines will also be reconfigured to reduce redundancy and support new capabilities such as visual regression and performance testing. The association noted these changes will improve performance across tens of thousands of repositories in the ecosystem.
To better support front-end contributors, new project management templates and integrations with tools like Storybook and Figma are under consideration. These improvements aim to make design contributions more efficient and impactful.
The Drupal Association also plans to publish its CI strategy to aid other large open source projects dealing with similar infrastructure scale. It frames the effort as part of its commitment to supporting the wider open web ecosystem.
This funding reaffirms the Sovereign Tech Fund’s long-term support of Drupal. As reported by The Drop Times in January 2024, the Fund’s earlier investment marked a strategic push to modernize core tooling for one of the world’s most critical open source content management systems.
Highlights
- €201K grant will complete migration of security issue workflows to GitLab
- CI/CD test optimization will improve speed and reduce redundancy across 10,000+ repositories
- New contributor tools planned for UX/design, including possible integration with Figma and Storybook
- Drupal Association to document and share its CI approach with other open source projects
- Follows a previous €300K contract awarded in 2024 to support GitLab transition
More details on the funded initiatives can be found on the Drupal Association’s blog on Drupal.org.
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