Two weeks as a core maintainer

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

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...

... 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