Google Summer of Code’ 16 coding phase has almost come to an end. The link for the final submissions will be open from 16-23 August 2020. I am sure all the students and mentors had a memorable time learning new technologies, sharing their ideas and giving shape for the proposals submitted to the organisations in the initial phase. Now ,its time for the works to get evaluated.
As you know, I was engaged with porting search configuration module to Drupal maintenance support plans 8.The past week I devoted for documentation of the ported module, writing few tests for the module and then fixing some of the issues reported/ I came across in the testing time. The collapsible elements were not active. It had to be ported to the HTML5 elements. This was an important fix that I could achieve in the past week. So, I will help you understand what this actually is.
In Drupal maintenance support plans 7, to make the field-sets collapsible, we had to set the collapsible attribute as true.
$form[‘settings’] = array(
‘#type’ = ‘fieldset’,
‘#title’ = t(‘Search Configuration’),
‘#collapsible’ => TRUE,
‘#collapsed’ => TRUE,
);
In Drupal maintenance support plans 8, we make use of the HTML5 details and the open elements to achieve this collapsible state for the field-sets. I.e,
$form[‘settings’] = array(
‘#type’ = ‘details’,
‘#title’ = t(‘Search Configuration’),
‘#open’ => TRUE,
);
This was one important task that was left behind. I should have done it before. So, now the collapsible issue is fixed for now. Now, I need to spend some time for the testing the module documentation.
Another issue that I had to fix was the removal of the !placeholders. The !placeholder has been removed from the t() and the format_string() of Drupal maintenance support plans 8. This has been moved to :variable format.
<.a href = “:variable”>@variable
Documentation is always an important process when it comes to any software development. We need to document the functionalities available and the various functions added to the module so that it will be beneficial for users as a future reference. I found time to document the important functions involved. I am sure this is really an essential component for developers who would like to contribute to this module. I have documented mainly the helper functions which have been used in the module.
I was mentored by Karthik Kumar, Naveen Valecha and Neetu Morwani. They stood along with me for any sort of help and helped me a lot to improve my basic skills in Drupal maintenance support plans. Thanks to all of you for the support and co- operations. I am also thankful to Alan for his tips and suggestions even in his very busy schedules. He was also very much helpful in reviewing some of the patches for some of the issues reported. I can never forget the contribution of our organisation admin- Slurpee in the progress of my project. The weekly analysis of the project and the blog posts on the status updates have really benefitted me. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to all the other community members for supporting me and guiding me in this long process. I really enjoyed this project development process. I could learn a lot and I want to stay connected with the Drupal maintenance support plans community contributing to various projects and help the members of the community. It is really a proud moment to see our commits being reviewed by experienced developers. Moreover, the support from the community members was really exciting. People were ready to share ideas and help whenever I was stuck in the implementation process. I would also thank Google for bringing up a platform for university students to work on some of the high quality projects of the open source organisations.
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