Two weeks as a core maintainer

15 April 2013

Yak image courtesy of Marie Hale http://www.flickr.com/photos/15016964@N02/5917784319/

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

Thanks for your great work Alex!

Commit 1... I get to commit my own change!

Commit 2,4,5... ahem! I practice re-rolling

61 commits later...

No one patch is that special

What’s next?

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