With the year winding down, our staff were getting projects wrapped up and then had some much deserved end-of-year vacation time with their respective families and friends.
Client sponsored
- Andrew Rivera discussed a problem with the "author” value from an RSS field.
- Mark Shropshire reviewed a patch for the Easy Breadcrumbs module that fixed a problem with double-escaped HTML entities.
- Peter Mallett improved on a patch to clean up the Paragraphs module on Drupal 8.
- Rob Powell opened an issue to discuss problems with the Paragraphs module's field widget.
- I rerolled a patch for the Revisioning module's scheduler, created the Media Field Formatters module, and documented some code from Stephen Lucero on how to simplify using YAML Content with nested menu items.
Self directed
- Mark released a new build of Guardr for Drupal 7 to coincide with a security update for the Password Policy module.
- Stephen Lucero continued work on his Switches module.
- After much work from the community I released a new version of Backup and Migrate for Drupal 7, worked on the Metatag and Views issue queues, and reviewed a patch for Protected Node to fix a compatibility problem with PHP 7.1.
Blog posts
- Justin Rent wrote about a process for mentoring that he used last year to get better at development.
- Grayson Hicks wrote about benefits of upgrading to GatsbyJS v2.
- Rebecca Hummel shared some things she learned at the SHRM Diversity & Inclusion Conference.
Contrib Half Hour
We had a slightly short month for the Contrib Half Hour because of end-of-year holidays:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VeuSFplZ2k
A Contrib-First Mantra; December 6th. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHe7BtzeUu4
General Q&A; December 13th. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWX1Du4Ics
Humblebrag time! December 20th.
It's a wrap
And that brings our 2018 contributions to a close. We're glad you chose to join us in our journey and look forward to continuing to share our journey in 2019.