@drupalinfra It might be worth acknowledging that users will be prompted to sign the ToS/Contributor Agreement even when just cloning from the command line. If you have scripted git functionality running with your ssh key, that is going to break until you authenticate and accept the agreement.
@MikeElgan for years, Google sent tourists (including my family) down a road clearly marked as "staff only" in Rocky Mountain National Park. It is a section of dense housing where park staff and their families live. A park ranger pulled us over. We explained that "Google told us to". He said they'd been giving people warnings instead of tickets if they report the error in Google Maps for over a year, but Google won't stop sending people down what is essentially their driveway. #googleiswrong
Question for all the #opensource perverts out there: How "professional" does #code need to be before it is appropriate to share with the world?
I'll tell you why I ask: I spent a couple weeks getting an #automated build server working for the #Mercury browser. It works and is useful, but it isn't "clean". It has custom elements throughout, like curl commands to upload the finished installer via ftp and notify a Rocket.Chat instance.
It isn't a proper "project" but I feel people could benefit.
@wagesj45 in the higher ed Drupal space, you will find hundreds of projects on GitHub and GitLab that are shared for inspiration with no intention of supporting use outside the organization. A handful of modules started this way go on to become independent projects on their own, but most of what is shared is primarily to make it easier point to a line of code when discussing how we solved a problem within this community
@gdemet@pcambra because Drupal.org account profiles can be used to verify, you could require that within x hours of the account being created. Not sure how you would do much more before an account is created than check for a 200 response from Drupal.org for a username in a custom registration step.
The new @drupalassoc certified partners is just delusional, and incredibly US centered, so now if you don't pay a fee you're not listed in the #Drupal marketplace no matter how much you contribute?
In our case (10 people agency + contractors), a $5000 fee is just not worth it, we were happily paying the community supporter tier but we won't do a 5x increase, it's just not reasonable for our budget.
@pcambra@drupalassoc I can't get beyond the fact that the post used images of text in tables with no ALT text making it impossible for anyone depending on a screen reader to participate in this conversation.
I'll hold off on making a judgment about the changes until I know more about..
> The Supporting Partner program will be re-oriented to recognize those companies who are not in the business of selling Drupal services, but want to contribute to the project and the community.
@pcambra@drupalassoc I opened https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3421404 this morning and the WCAG issue that would have prevented from some members accessing content ABOUT the addition $$ required to access the Marketplace audience has been fixed... now the access issue is just the pay to play changes to Marketplace itself.
I love the unusual texture of the ice here and am disheartented by the fact that folks feel the need to publicly fly their political flag, even while ice fishing.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could all go out on the ice together and just get along.
@stpaultim I don't mind the flags promoting what people are for... even if I don't agree. You like the Eagles? Doesn't matter if it's the team or the band. Not my thing, but I learned something about you. I take issue when your flag is just about what you are against. Flying a southern cross fell into that category at some point. It was no longer about southern pride, but a dog whistle letting everyone know what you were against. Fuck Biden. Crass, but OK. Now tell me what are you actually for?
Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.
People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.
Update: As many have pointed out, you can use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it
@nclm@RL_Dane@mozilla with WordPress adding federated ActivityPub support to all sites hosted on werdpress.com and 42K authors already using it to publish 4.5mil posts, I'd like to suggest adding an option to follow a site via Mastodon at the browser level instead of adding an increasing number of social icons to the page. Add the additional follow options like AtivityPub to the existing RSS link to the page metadata.
After publishing my post with statistics about #CMS used on official city websites, I got a lot of messages about providing the same data for the USA 🤠....
@kreynen I wish links on Kbin that allowed me to choose which image to use as the thumbnail. One of the downsides of using links over articles is the thumbnail comes from the URL. While I can edit the prepopulated title and body, the image just reappears/reattaches when removed.
@pcambra it's worth noting that @photomatt is on Mastodon and sharing the posts he makes to https://ma.tt/ directly. I don't think he's using the ActivityPub plugin that is available for all wordpress.com sites (>2.6 mil) that is now being used by ~6K sites to generate 4.5million posts to the Fediverse. That plugin is similar to https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub in that users follow a new account using the domain of the site instead of posting to an author's existing account.
I've only played with the Drupal module. I'm more interested in integrating more directly with Kbin. We've been manually reposting most of the planet feed to https://kbin.social/m/drupal for ~6 months. I set up drupal-planet@feedsin.space. It works to get content into Mastodon, but I'm more excited about the potential of the Reddit/StackExchange style communities than federated microblogging.
If you customize/maintain or use a Content Management System (#CMS) to display Web content, I'd like to know which CMS your prefer
I've always coded Web-based components from scratch, but I'm curious about the CMS solutions that are commonly used to serve up content on the Web. The community here seems to be very tech-oriented, so I thought I'd be able to get some great feedback.
@jay really depends on what you want to accomplish/learn. The learning curve for Drupal is steep, but part of that is learning modern PHP packaging & the same type of CI/CD build process required for any other Symfony or Laraval project. WordPress's block editor is impressive, but the PHP is dated. You can install WP w/ Composer, but the PHP dependencies are included w/ the plugins to support the legacy .zip down/sftp install method most WP sites still use. Give https://ddev.com/ a try
"The United States should establish a Digital Technology Fund to provide direct and indirect support to #OpenSource projects and communities that are essential for the public interest, national security, and global competitiveness. The Digital Technology Fund would be funded by a coalition of federal, private, academic, and philanthropic stakeholders and would be administered by an independent nonprofit organization."
@apereo The Drupal Project recently received $300K from the German Sovereign Tech Fund. While the project benefits indirectly through a large number of federal contracts to implement & maintain Drupal sites and applications, directly investing in a project empowers the project leadership to decide where to spend the money. This can help help solve hard problems a single vendor would avoid solving for a single contract & benefits everyone using the "digital public good".
There is an ongoing debate among developers regarding the use of patches versus pull requests for contributions. Since its migration to GitLab in 2018, Drupal has undergone significant changes. As of July 2024, the removal of Drupal CI and automated patch testing could potentially change the way contributions are made.
@kreynen Worth noting that even the 2.x beta documentation recommends avoiding patches autogenerated by PR/MR URLs.
> "The contents of these patches can change by pushing more commits to a pull request or merge request. A malicious user could abuse this behavior to cause you to deploy code that you didn’t mean to deploy."
The recommendation is to download a patch & apply it locally, but I'm guessing we'll see devs continue to add patches in queues & include those URLs
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Drupal top open-source options for large city websites in US. Inspired by TDT's research about higher ed usage, Grzegorz Pietrzak checked the CMS used by US cities with more than 100k inhabitants (www.linkedin.com)
After publishing my post with statistics about #CMS used on official city websites, I got a lot of messages about providing the same data for the USA 🤠....
To Patch or Not To Patch | bPekker.dev (bpekker.dev)
There is an ongoing debate among developers regarding the use of patches versus pull requests for contributions. Since its migration to GitLab in 2018, Drupal has undergone significant changes. As of July 2024, the removal of Drupal CI and automated patch testing could potentially change the way contributions are made.