Dave Reid on his Drupal 7 core and contrib work
Dave Reid is one of the top Drupal 7 core contributors and has his hand in maintaining or co-maintaining nearly 50 contributed modules. Reid is the Drupal 7 maintainer of the contact module, statistics module, and the token system as well as co-maintainer of the path system and the update module. He talks about some of the new APIs that he helped work on such as hook_url_inbound_alter, hook_url_outbound_alter and a series of hook_modules_* functions that can trigger actions after modules are either enabled, disabled, installed or uninstalled. At the time of this recording at DrupalCon San Francisco, Dave was a freelance developer, but since that time he has taken a full-time developer position at Palantir. For more information on best practices for contrib module development and support, then be sure to check out the DrupalCon San Francisco presentation that Reid helped present.