I think we should start #GratitudeTuesday (or any day) to acknowledge people quietly doing the work that keeps us all running, keeps us secure, keeps our businesses running. What is your favorite under-acknowledged #opensource project that many rely on and doesn't get enough attention? Or your favorite contributor who always seems to be plugging along making sure those projects are healthy?
@duane @jessicasachs @Shini92 This is a perfect example! There are so many people quietly carrying a lot of our virtual baggage, and I'd like to know more about them all.
@duane @jessicasachs @Shini92 And speaking of testing, I must tag @mglaman whose work on phpstan with Drupal (and many other things) inspired this post. Sometimes you skim past a random post somewhere that reminds you to say thanks once in a while. :)
@mglaman @duane @katherined @jessicasachs @Shini92 indeed! The work he and others have done have absolutely transformed major Drupal upgrades — super simple now!
@duane @katherined @jessicasachs feel a truckload of love pour over you
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@duane @katherined @Shini92 🤩 Wow! What a huge compliment. Thank you 🙏
@katherined my favorite undermaintained project is #XCSoar https://xcsoar.org
Its a GPL2 FOSS tactical glide computer that many #paraglider and #soaring pilots rely on for making 500+km flights just with wind and sun. The appstore download has 100'000 users and very few contributers: https://github.com/XCSoar/XCSoar/graphs/contributors
@katherined gotta love Joomla! Been building sites on the CMS for about 15 years or so and volunteering with them for about 10. So many amazing volunteers.
@alison @katherined Nice to read someone from who use and volonteer Joomla. I use Joomla for my personal web site, and one for an org I manage.
@hehemrin @katherined Henrik how are you liking Joomla 4?
@katherined @alison Yes, well, I have pushed Joomla 4 in front of me… Time plan for J4 release was delayed a few years I belive, but it arrived! Now it should be mature but I need to take time to learn more before I prepare migration. I know the template will need work as Protostar cannot be migrated. So I need to start to understand issues first. Then I can explore features! I am conservative in using extensions. But still. So your question - I hope I can answer you in spring!
@hehemrin I was reluctant at first but it really is a good fast version. I started by just doing a play around site on a burner domain to get the feel of it.
@alison Sounds good! I have a burner for J3, so a J4 burner is a good idea. Or/and if I do a local installation on a Linux laptop and import my site and see what happens, and start to explore that way. I haven’t done a local ”LAMP” before, but I believe I will manage if I just take some time for it.
@katherined I love this!
I'd like to tag @jessicasachs, @Shini92, and the rest of the new faker.js team on #GratitudeTuesday and thank them for their work over the last year after the previous maintainer rage-quit the project. It's an important tool for testing, and testing is important for security and reliability. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻