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We dipped our toes into political activism today, joining the Women's March event being held in our hometown of Keene, NH. A friend of my wife's made her a hat, which I wore when we were walking back to the car. It was a good event, and it's helping our kids start to see beyond their privileged positions in life.
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Thought I'd give a quick update on my personal contribution efforts, given I'm involved in so many different projects.
The Drupal 7 version of Metatag is pretty darned solid at this point. Some tests were added recently that will make sure the output works correctly for all tests, so the next release might be the last for a while. Speaking of which, I'm planning to do a bug fix release on December 31st.
This is overdue for a stable release, and the good news is that we're almost there. Here's what my current goals are:
Will include all(-ish) of the meta tags that D7 has; I'm hoping to get some others working on these, at this point it's (almost) just a case of running some Drupal Console commands a whole bunch of times.
Will probably try to add the Views integration, given some lovely people were kind enough to put together a patch (https://www.drupal.org/node/2563647).
Needs some documentation, and any major bugs that show up in rc1 will be fixed.
This is pretty stable, but needs a few more bugs fixed and a new release (https://www.drupal.org/node/2787147).
Some great people have been taking care of this while I've been busy elsewhere. I took a peek this past week and helped a little plan out the goals for the 8.x-3.0 release, with a beta1 (https://www.drupal.org/node/2834847) due really soon and a stable shortly thereafter.
FPP is pretty stable at this point, but has some awkward bits when it's used on a multilingual site; it needs a bit of work.
There's also GoogleNews, Menu MiniPanels, Maillog, Phonetic, Code Per Node/CPN, Twitter, etc, etc. Those may get some TLC at some point, but unless a project shows up that needs improvements on them they're going to be waiting a while I'm afraid. Of course this is a perfect opportunity for enterprising souls out there to help out - if you're interested please let me know!
Submitted by Damien on
Just to mention it, plumbing sucks. Last night I discovered that there was a slow leak on the sprayer for our kitchen's sink - no idea how long it had been there but there was visible damage in the cabinet under the sink. The leak was happening because an o-ring was wearing out on the sprayer attached to the faucet/tap, so after dinner I went to Home Depot to get a new o-ring. While there I picked up a small box of multiple sizes, figuring it might save me a trip some other time. Once I got home home I checked the different sizes, only to discover that the one size the box did not have was size I needed. So this morning I get up early to go to a small mom-n-pop hardware store down the road and they're out of the o-ring size I need ("I went through them a while ago and put in an order for more.." gah). I go down the road further to another hardware store and they didn't have o-rings with the same nomenclature, so I used my phone to find the dimensions I needed and grabbed one that fit the description. Took it home and it didn't fit, it was too small. So now I have to go back to Home Depot at lunchtime and hope they too haven't ran out of the size I need. Damnit.
Oh, and why don't have I the original washer to compare against? Because it went flying across the kitchen when I was taking it off and I wasn't able to find it.
Update: So, went to Home Depot, they had a small box of o-rings the size I needed, I bought it, went home, got to the kitchen and asked our son (who had bagged the small box) where the box was, and it was nowhere to be found. We checked the car, checked the path from the car to the house, checked the house - it's gone. Dagnamit. So I'll have to go back again.
Update #2: So.. After dinner I took Kian to the store to ask if anyone had found a small box of o-rings around the cash registers, they hadn't but they were very nice and gave be a replacement box. Got home with them and... they didn't fit, they were too thick to fit. So I called the store to ask if there was another size of o-ring that was a similar diameter but thinner, and after five minutes on hold decided to just drive back. After rooting around I found what seemed like it might work, bought it, put it in the bag and made sure I still had it in my bag when I got to the car, got home and - tadaa, it fits!
So after three days we finally have a fully working sink again! Yay!
Now to hire someone to fix the cabinet.
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Submitted by Damien on
At DrupalGovCon I was pleased to have some others help me work on the Drupal 8 port of Metatag, their help was very much appreciated.
