Drupal Sprint in Bellingham, WA, USA is part of Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016.
We will be holding sprints on both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm at the Western Downtown Center within the Herald Building (1155 North State St.).
Drupal 8 will be the focus of both days as we help the community move towards further improvements in Drupal 8.
If you haven't yet used Drupal 8 this is a great opportunity to be exposed to the new system. If you have never been to a sprint, this blog post has a great overview of what to expect. https://www.acquia.com/blog/helpful-guide-your-first-drupal-sprint
Last year we had 10-15 people throughout the day. We hope to see you there.
Steps to sprint!
- Create a Drupal.org account
- Install the Dreditor browser plugin
- Download Acquia Dev Desktop
- Clone the most recent 8.x code
- Chose a task
Finding and applying patches
Once an interesting patch has been found, the process to apply the patch in order to test it is as follows:
Ensure your copy of Drupal is updated to the most recent version. This can be done at any time by executing the following command inside the Drupal root directory:
git pull
Download a copy of the most recent version of the patch (often patches are revised further down the issue page) by issuing the command:
wget http://drupal.org/files/issues/patch-name.patch
OR, if you're on a system with curl rather than wget:
curl -O http://drupal.org/files/issues/patch-name.patch
Apply the patch by issuing the following:
git apply [patchname].patch
Finally, test the patch out rigorously and submit feedback to the issue tracker, in order to help identify problems and improve the functionality of Drupal.
Test Patches - https://www.drupal.org/patch/review
Comments
Sprint Mentoring
I'll be mentoring new contributors to Drupal on both days. Excited!
The joy of too many places to be!
I have signed up for Vancouver already but I enjoy working with you folks so I'll probably join you for Sunday.
The trick will be to pick isssues that can work easily in both places. With https://groups.drupal.org/user/597874 I imagine there will be a strong Twig focus up here.
Angus Pratt
Poet, Consultant, Web Designer
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Twig, UI, Accessibility
It will be fun to see you Angus if you can make it on Sunday. I am sure the Vancouver session will be great. We have been exploring Twig at our meetups, but anything surrounding the User Interface or Accessibility I think we have some strength in as well.
Accessibility
Awesome, I'm up for working on accessibility. See you then!
Great to hear! See you on
Great to hear! See you on Saturday.
Online image diff tool to help with showing before/after cases
From the folks that make DeltaWalker:
http://deltawalker.com/comparejs/
If you need to show subtle differences between two screenshots, this tool may help, offering some thresholding, what's changed vs. what's the same views.
Experiment on a obvious test case to get a feel for how the online tool works and whether it is of value for your needs.
Help with patches: e.g. interdiff to aid in comparing 2 patches
During the 2016 Sprint, we had reason to not only offer some patches, but also to explore comparing 2 patches via
interdiff
. On the Mac,interdiff
can be installed using Macports (e.g.sudo port install patchutils
) or Homebrew by installingpatchutils
which is a collection of patch utilities. I've created a table below that lists the utilities it installs and a link to a man page for further details.