Two weeks ago Drupal and Dries changed my life yet again by making me a Drupal 8 YAC (yet another co-maintainer). This is the story of what happened next...
Commit 1... I get to commit my own change!
Adding myself to MAINTAINERS.txt gave me a serious case of impostor syndrome.
commit 3ae853248db5c64c7d4aa13ce94100f11eaaccde
Author: Alex Pott <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 2 07:51:36 2013 +0100
Issue #1958560 by alexpott: Add alexpott to branch maintainers for Drupal 8.
Commit 2,4,5... ahem! I practice re-rolling
commit 80e373fa92148550e387b9873ae7cfc5b2bfc747
Author: Alex Pott <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 2 10:18:50 2013 +0100
git commit -m Issue
commit c4c7f792d065ecf7d4dfe51ef00759abda97164b
Author: Alex Pott <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 2 11:53:10 2013 +0100
This reverts commit 80e373fa92148550e387b9873ae7cfc5b2bfc747
commit 8199247dc826a840dc9144fe4f55de3084c07768
Author: webchick <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Apr 2 08:46:33 2013 -0700
Issue #1954246 by Wim Leers: Fixed Underlying content visible in the editing area while using PropertyEditor widget that uses padding.
What really happen here... I primed my command line with $ git commit -m

Which one of the helpful text boxes that Dreditor gives us do you think I copied and pasted from?
Whilst blaming sun is fun, obviously I should have reviewed the git log before I pushed!
61 commits later...
commit a820153fa530341048c604555286fff1e1428329
Author: Alex Pott <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Apr 13 18:06:40 2013 +0100
Issue #1735118 by swentel, yched, xjm, larowlan, alexpott, tim.plunkett: Convert Field API to CMI.
... so still committing my own patches then ;)
No one patch is that special
The best thing about being a Drupal YAC is that you get to unblock the work of everyone else. The best evidence for this... #1940592 Ckeditor disappears when caching and compression is enabled contains the only code I've written since becoming a co-maintainer - a 1 line patch that is probably wrong :)
For the first time in a month or two, the #Drupal 8 RTBC queue is < 1 page! @alexpott++
— Angie (@webchick) April 11, 2013
What’s next?
The Twig initiative is proceeding at an incredible pace - of the 51 issues currently rtbc 19!!! are Twig conversions.
I’m also going to work on a git pre-push hook (new!) to ensure that I don't make silly mistakes and review commit logs.
Thank you Drupal, your community and this little man for making this happen
Comments
Pol (not verified)
15 April 2013
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Good job
Good job my friend :-)
jibran (not verified)
15 April 2013
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Yay!! D8 moving quite fast
Yay!! D8 moving quite fast now. Great work.
BTW What's up with the cow? :)
Mohit (not verified)
15 April 2013
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Bravooo....
Bravo......Great work Alex....
YakYakYak (not verified)
15 April 2013
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"What's up with the cow?"
It is a Yak.
Mori (not verified)
16 April 2013
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Thanks for your great work
Thanks for your great work Alex!