Drupal.org changes for the sprint from 2 to 15 July and the sprint from 16 to 29 July 2018.

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Infrastructure related change records:

https://www.drupal.org/list-changes/infrastructure

This notification comes a bit late as members of the DA staff were on vacation.

Announcements

The sprint from 16 to 29 of July will be truncated

The Drupal Association sprint from the 16th to the 29th of July will be shorter than usual, as Drupal Association staff gather in Portland Oregon for our biannual staff retreat for the first week of this sprint.

Change to the Git remote format for Drupal.org

We will be deprecating the git remote format <username>@git.drupal.org/project/<yourproject>.git in favor of g...@git.drupal.org:project/<yourproject>.git in preparation for changes to our developer tooling stack. If you used the username@ format for your git remotes, you should change your remote to the git@ format. Please note: you cannot use password authentication with the new git@ format, you will need to upload SSH keys to your Drupal.org profile.

For more detailed instructions please review: https://drupal.org/gitauth

Deprecating PhantomJS

PhantomJS is currently being used in core and contrib for running automated Javascript tests on DrupalCI. The PhantomJS software is no longer supported, and we're going to be deprecating support for this testing method in DrupalCI soon. We strongly encourage all maintainers to migrate their Javascript tests to Nightwatch/Chrome web driver.

Upcoming Changes

Change the issue credit attribution to default to crediting commenters (maintainers must deselect commenters to remove credit attribution)

A number of maintainers and contributors from the core and contrib spaces have suggested that we change the Issue Credit Attribution process, so that commenters are credited by default, instead of having to be manually credited by the maintainer.

We want to continue to observe feedback on this change in the issue thread, but based on the current consensus and positivity around this idea, we are intending to make this change.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2974366

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2972225

Status: On hold while we continue to review community feedback on this issue

Provide social media links for sharing DrupalCon news

The DrupalCon website is being updated to provide social media links for sharing DrupalCon news. We hope to encourage people to spread the word and grow the community that attends DrupalCon.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2985204

Status: In review for deployment

Ongoing Changes

Developing a tag based scheduler for the DrupalCon Schedule

For DrupalCon Seattle, coming up in April of 2019, we want to implement a new scheduler system to allow sessions to have multiple tags rather than just a single track. We've been working with some members of the track team (thanks @eatings and @timplunkett!) and are prototyping what this may look like now.

Status: In prototyping

Importing existing donation and membership data to new membership system

If you've ever needed to look up a history of your donations to the DA for tax purposes, you'll be happy for this one. Now you will see the full history of donations, not including memberships, on your Drupal.org profile.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2956455

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2934492

Status: In progress

Implementing Open Demographics Initiative on Drupal.org

To improve the inclusiveness of our community, we want to provide better tools for understanding our community, and for allowing members of our community (at their choice) to positively affirm their identity and expression.

There are a number of important axes of identity and expression, however. We are evaluating making a module to include the Open Demographics Initiative, by @drnikki, with input from @sagesharp, @rachel_norfolk, @justafish, among others.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2944177

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2938949

Status: We have submitted a pull request to provide all of the questions and answers from ODI in a JSON format: https://github.com/drnikki/open-demographics/pull/48

DrupalCI: Auditing build and environment configuration

We will be auditing DrupalCI's build and environment configuration so that we can create a more efficient and cost-effective set of configuration options for Drupal testing. We want to ensure that developers are not running duplicate tests unnecessarily, and are only running regression series before commit. This should speed up testing, and save money in the project's testing budget.

Status: In discovery phase

Previous Sprint Changes

Show guide maintainers on top level documentation guides

To make it easier to know who to contact about changes to the top level Documentation Guides, we've added back the panes which display the guide maintainers of these top level guides.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2985205

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2982724

Status: Deployed

View all issue credits now works after changing git username

If a user changes their git username, the 'view all issue credits' link on their profile will now continue to work properly.

Change record: https://www.drupal.org/node/2985207

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/2979284

Status: Deployed

DrupalCI: Auditing our dispatcher disk space management

The DrupalCI dispatcher keeps a large number of artifacts for every test run so that if contributors need to track down the source of any test failures they have all the materials they will need. As testing grows in volume and complexity, the number of artifacts we store becomes more unwieldy. We are currently in the process of auditing what artifacts are stored and how often we clear up old artifacts to help manage DrupalCI disk space: starting with deduplication.

Issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci_testbot/issues/2980279

Status: We have implemented automated disk space management for the DrupalCI dispatcher

Launching the ecommerce industry page

The next in our line-up of pages which promote Drupal solutions by industry will be the eCommerce page. This page will promote successful ecommerce case studies in Drupal as well as tools and partners to help build Drupal ecommerce solutions.