sprint

Last week's first round of the code sprint focused on improving multilingual support in Drupal core ended on a high point: a major improvement to the UI for administering string translations was committed, thanks to great work by Roger López, Jakub Suchy, and Stella Power and some careful review by Angie Byron. Several others pitched into additional issues.

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With over a dozen active participants and major progress on four significant patches, plus several smaller fixes, the first day of the Internationalization in Core virtual code sprint was nothing short of amazing! And if you want to join in, please do! We'll be in #drupal-i18n on IRC tomorrow (Wednesday) starting around 9:00 GMT and going until after midnight GMT. Never applied a patch before or checked out code from CVS? Don't worry, we can get you started. Here's a rundown of the day.

Goals

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A way to rapidly push development is to prototype your ideas. Aaron Winborn and I laid out the concept of how we wanted our media browser to work on a white board and then started thinking through our data model.

After a few fast revisions and chicken scratches on the board, I sat down to code. I had a shell of functionality that was close enough to some of our ideas from a document the media sprint group had worked on several months ago.

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