CivicActions

I am co-presenting coder at DrupalCon Szeged with my co-maintainer Stella who has been co-maintaining coder for about a year. See the session write-up

This presentation will be similar to the one given in Boston. But Since we have less time, and since we are co-presenting (meaning even less time for me), I'm pre-releasing parts of the presentation in this blog.

Some time ago, Kieran approached me about the possibility of running coder on patches submitted to Drupal.org.

Because of some outstanding work by Stella, and (of course) Moshe a.k.a. drush, Kieran's wish is now a possibility. The actual patch issue is here.

The CivicActions team has gone a little crazy the last couple days using a new site (faceyourmanaga.com) to create avatars of themselves. We'd like to think of them as the CivicActions Action Figures, or even the CivicActions Super Hero's.

LIVE FROM THE ENGINEERING PLAYA DEL CARMEN RETREAT...

I first used vi in 1984 while writing an Operating System for one of my classes. I probably really learned vi while playing nethack during the summer of 1984. I've used vi in almost every job I've had since then. Even when I was on windows, I used mks toolkit or cygwin. That's a 24 years of vi use. I know that we all love our editor. And I have no desire to get into an editor flame war. The point is that I that I've been using vi for a long time, and it's very comfortable for me.

The Minnesota Search Sprint is unofficially over. Earnest, Djun, and Blake have already left. Chad is local, but I've said goodbye to him too. Robert and I leave tomorrow. And David is vacationing a few extra days in sunny Minnesota (because it's warmer than Montreal???).

LIVE FROM THE MINNESOTA SEARCH SPRINT...

The sprint team of Robert Douglass, Blake Lucchesi, Djun Kim, David Lesieur, Chad Fennel, Earnest Berry, and myself, began work at 8am on this uncharacteristically warm sunny May day at the University of Minnesota.

In the spirit of the "Data Sprint," and the "Testing Sprint", Friday 5/9 through Sunday 5/11, we are meeting in what is being dubbed the "Search Sprint" at the University of Minnesota.

The good news is that CivicActions is busy! The bad news is that I had hoped to prepare more, but this date has really snuck up on me. My plane leaves tomorrow, and I've neglected preparing at all. I was asked to write this blog several weeks ago (sorry).

I started work on the coder module a little over a year ago, as a response to an internal engineering meeting where were discussing Quality Assurance code reviews, and said "we should have a module to do that."

At OS/CMS I briefly introduced coder in the Lightning Talks session.

While in Barcelona, pre-conference, I gave a Drupal Dojo titled Upgrading your contrib modules to D6? Coder module can help!.

Every release cycle, dries starts a "Personal Battle Plans" thread on d.o. You can read them all here: 4.5.x, 4.6.x, 4.7.x missing?, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x.

If you're still looking for a DrupalCon hotel, check out the Milner Boston Hotel which is the best deal available and about as close to the Boston Convention Center that you can get. Be sure to use their website and get the web special $109 ($122 after taxes) per night!

I can't vouch for the hotel, this will be my first stay. They have free internet and free breakfast. The only downside I see is that they advertise "Quaint European Style Rooms", which means small.