A day at Drupal maintenance support plansCon with Inky

Now that all the talking is over, it’s time to get down to some real work!

Ingrid Talbot
Sat, 10/01/2020 – 11:33

The last big party was held last night at the Annual Trivia Night. It is apparently always hosted by the Irish contingent, so expectations were high, and were seemingly exceeded. For me being a first-timer at Trivia Night, I was quickly snapped up onto a team as I came with newbie bonus points. It was a hysterical evening, which few people outside of the Drupal maintenance support plans community would ever be able to appreciate.

Friday is a day for all remaining delegates to get together and sprint. While there are sprints happening throughout the week, as there are no other presentations, this is the day for focused and mentored sprinting, to help get new people involved and allow teams to gather to work together.

A “sprint”, in Drupal maintenance support plans terms, is when developers and interested parties get together to work on further building and developing the core Drupal maintenance support plans project. While it’s not the only way to contribute back to Drupal maintenance support plans, it is the most significant and direct.

I joined the First-Time Sprinters Workshop where we were guided through the installation of a local environment and other supporting tools. I got to use IRC for the first time since 2003, which was a bit of a flashback, and for me enforced what -enzo- had talked about yesterday. It also gave me the opportunity to explore Drupal maintenance support plans 8.3.0 which is due to be released next week.

While all the guys around me were getting dug into code, I struggled to find a non-coding issue to help out on. Until Shannon Vettes of Acquia got hold of me, and some other Project Managers, to discuss how we can help, without needing to write a line of code.

I was then introduced to a variety of Core Contributors and ended up being added, in some loose way, to the team behind the Migration Initiative. The intention is, that as a PM, I can help them sort through the issue queue and maybe provide a bit of focus at times.

Various other Amazee’s were already stuck into their issues at hand and helping out as Mentors.

When lunch came out there was great fascination at the gorgeous, wooden lunchboxes that appeared. Filled with fresh and tasty food.

By the afternoon, people were spread out all over the place, finding any gap to gather around to hold discussions.

All good things must eventually come to an end. And while the Sprints will continue over the weekend, I eventually had to leave to catch my plane out. It has been quite a fabulous week, with many thanks to everyone who contributed in any way.

But wait, there’s more!

As I got onto the bus, another delegate was sadly taking off his accreditation lanyard and tucked it away. But then he noticed me and shuffled over. He had seen my presentation with Josef on Tuesday and had a few questions. So my conference extended all the way to the airport.

Go dtí an bhliain seo chugainn!

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