coder

Time is flying by. There is now only 7 weeks to go to DrupalCon San Francisco! I'm really looking forward to it I have to admit. Although I've visited the US a fair bit, I've never been to the west coast, not to mind say San Francisco. Dermot is coming over with me this time, and we're planning on taking an extra week to travel around and do some sightseeing. We're also going to visit a good friend of mine, Aimee, in LA, and then travel back up to Sacremento to visit other friends.

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Drupal 7 code freeze is almost upon us, and you may now be considering upgrading your modules and themes. To make that process as easy as possible, I've been working hard to update the Coder module with all the necessary Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 reviews to help you identify where in your module or theme you need to make changes.

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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.

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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!.

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I recently made a list of a whole bunch of modules I was interested in, and wanted to gain a quick overview of how they followed Drupal's coding standards. While this is obviously only one metric and there are many others possible (issue queue length, manual code review, simpletests etc), it is a useful and simple way to to get started.

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All the talk about coding standards is *mostly* geared towards the professional software developers, those of us who work on large projects with a team of others, and who do that every day. If you're someone who is just willing to dig in and contribute, please continue to do so, feel free to read this article, but it's not really for you. But let's say you're a programmer. You write great code, that does a lot of good stuff! If you're on the Drupal project, you've probably submitted several patches and even contributed a few modules.

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