Talking Drupal #522 - New Contrib Records System

Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about the New Contribution Records System, how it’s changed, and what you may need to do differently with guests Fran Garcia-Linares & Tim Lehnen. We’ll also cover Config Notify as our module of the week.

This episode is sponsored by Amazee.ai

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/522

Topics

• Understanding the Contribution Record System
• Recent Changes and Migration Challenges
• Assigning and Displaying Contribution Credits
• Future Enhancements and Broader Contributions
• Collaborating on Commit Message Format
• GitLab Migration and Contribution Records
• Integration Challenges with GitLab
• Testing and Feedback on New System
• Future Plans and Community Involvement
• API Endpoints and Data Querying
• Gamification and Broader Adoption

Resources

• Millions of data talk
  • Slides (in Spanish)
  • Video not available yet
• Gitlab issue for feature request for contribution
• Contribution records module
• https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_records
• New available endpoints:
  • https://new.drupal.org
  • https://git.drupalcode.org/project/contribution_records/-/blob/1.0.x/README.md?ref_type=heads#endpoints-to-query-data
• Issue to track issue migration
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3295357

Guests

Fran Garcia-Linares - fjgarlin Tim Lehnen - drupal.org/association/staff hestenet

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Hayden Baillio - hgbaillio

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed to maintain a site where a site owner had access to update site configuration, and wanted to be notified whenever they did so? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Config Notify
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2020 by Fran Garcia-Linares (fjgarlin), one of today’s guests
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.11, which supports Drupal 8.8 and newer
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
• Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 194 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Just like it sounds, this module lets you trigger notifications when the configuration deviates from the config management code in production.
  • You can choose for the notifications to be sent immediately, or via cron, with an option for a daily digest. The notifications can be sent by email, or via Slack, using the slack module (if enabled).
  • This should be an easy-to-implement solution if you support a site where users may be updating the site configuration in production. A different approach was discussed back in episode #236 Top Down Configuration