Drupal.org blog: What’s new on Drupal.org – Q3 2022

Posted on by Michael G

Read our roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community. You can also review the Drupal project roadmap.

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Our update for the third quarter of 2022 includes some exciting highlights from DrupalCon Prague in September, a progress report on the GitLab Acceleration Initiative, small improvements to help bring the community together, and more. 

Did you miss the chance to attend DrupalCon Europe in Prague? Don’t worry, most of the excellent content is available on the Drupal Association YouTube channel. Almost 50% of the attendees in Prague were new to DrupalCon, an amazing milestone that shows just how healthy the Drupal ecosystem in Europe really is. 

With so many hours of recordings, maybe you’d prefer to check out our event recap for some of the highlights. 

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Drupal.org Updates

#Driesnote Highlights

The major theme of the #Driesnote at DrupalCon Prague was how the community is making Drupal easier to use and easier to innovate, with information about Automatic Updates, the Project Browser, and the GitLab initiative.

Watch the full #Driesnote 

The Drupal Association has direct involvement in each of these three initiatives, alongside all of the community contributors and organizations participating. 

If you or your organization is interested in supporting these or other initiatives, please feel free to read up on the official initiative pages to learn how to participate. 

GitLab Acceleration Updates

GitLab Acceleration logoWe want to highlight section of the #Driesnote in particular, Drupal Association team member @fjgarlin gave a significant update on the process of moving Drupal.org issues to GitLab issues, and the full migration code is now written and waiting for the additional pieces of the puzzle (issue credit, CI). 

To increase the rate of innovation in Drupal, the Association is putting a heavy emphasis on the tools we use to contribute. With three pillars of issues, contribution credit, and CI testing each nearly ready to go, we’ll be seeing rapid adoption of the new tools in the coming months. 

GitLab server upgrades

As contribution activity ramped up prior to the first Drupal 10 beta release and DrupalCon Prague, it quickly became clear that our GitLab hosting environment was struggling with the increased load. 

The Drupal Association has historically hosted a majority of our infrastructure at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, on bare metal virtual machine hosts that we maintain. We use this in combination with a more modern cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS. While we see significant savings hosting with the OSL, there is clear value in making strategic investments in faster infrastructure for our communities collaboration tools.

Together with our infrastructure management partners at Tag1, we significantly scaled up the server infrastructure backing our GitLab instance: 

GitLab Server Up-sizing

Time and money invested in speeding up our GitLab instance directly translates into time saved for thousands of contributors to the Drupal project (and to their employers billable hours). 

It’s a much simpler thing than adding new contribution features, but it’s a good reminder that investing purely in performance can have a really positive impact on our community. 

Training Marketplace: Recognizing Contribution

Managing the Drupal.org marketplace is one of the more crucial responsibilities of the Drupal Association. Recent efforts have been focused on recognizing the hard work that organizations do to contribute to the project, by sponsoring the time of their team members to give back. For a long time, many of our training partners have also been tremendous contributors, and we’re now factoring that into the ranking of organizations in the training marketplace. 

By sorting our training partners in order of contributions, we not only reward those organizations that contribute the most with more business, but we also promote those training companies that will hopefully include contribution training as part of their curriculum, bringing in new contributors to our community. 

Drupal 9( and 10!) Updates for Drupal.org

We’re often asked when Drupal.org itself is going to be updated to Drupal 9 (or at this point, Drupal 10!). Historically, with most major version updates of Drupal, Drupal.org is one of the last sites to migrate. This is because Drupal.org has a lot of bespoke tools that we are the sole maintainers of, and so it takes us a little bit longer to get things ready. 

We’re happy to say, several sites are in pre-production, ready for deployment soon, including: 

  • api.drupal.org
  • events.drupal.org 
  • localize.drupal.org (thanks to the community!) 

Groups.drupal.org is going to have functionality moved directly into Drupal.org, where it can be more easily connected with systems like the community/events portal and the contribution recognition system. 

Finally, we have designs and front-end work for Drupal.org itself, just about ready to go thanks to our partnership with Third and Grove. 

Drupal.org needs to be a showcase of the best that Drupal can be. As the ‘front door’ of the Drupal ecosystem, we want to make a great first impression on Drupal evaluators, developers, and organizations who may want to build their business on Drupal. 

Contribution Dashboard for Organizations

Every Drupal.org organization profile now has a contribution dashboard that can be viewed only by the user who owns the profile. This is an important feature addition to help make current and prospective members of the Drupal Certified Partner program more aware of their current progress towards increasing their contributions. 

Organization Contribution Dashboard

This ‘Owner tools’ dashboard provides an at-a-glance look at an organization’s contribution status, including:

  • Weighted contribution credit in the last 12 months
  • Case study count
  • Supporting partner level

And critically, highlights the progress towards the next tier of partnership.

If you are the node-owner for your organization profile, look for the ‘Owner tools’ link at the top of the page. 

Community Events Improvements

In collaboration with the Events Organizer Working Group, we’ve made additional improvements  to drupal.org/community/events in Q3. 

Because of the return of in-person events as Covid moves from pandemic to endemic, it’s more important than ever to provide a central repository for all of the activity happening in the Drupal community. 

In particular, with Drupal 10 just over the horizon, we focused on adding support for ‘Contribution Events‘.

The new ‘contribution events’ category was used to support several highly successful ‘Drupal 10 porting days’ to help get the module ecosystem ready for the upcoming release of Drupal 10. 

You’ll also see Drupal 10 release parties being added – so if you’re looking to join (or host!) a Drupal 10 launch event, check out drupal.org/community/events. 

Regional Filters for Case Studies

Last but not least, we fulfilled a long-time request to add the ability to filter Drupal.org case studies by region. Just prior to DrupalCon Prague we were able to slip in this functionality. 

Regional case study filter

For partners hoping to show new clients case studies in the same regions they operate, it should now be much easier, and for end-users looking to see organizations like them who already use Drupal, it should be easier than ever. 

.. and after that?

We’re well into Q4 2022 as this blog is getting posted. So what else will be coming soon? The major milestone on everyone’s mind is the impending release of Drupal 10, targeted for 14 Dec, 2022. A major part of the Drupal Association team’s efforts in Q4 has been on support for Drupal 10 readiness, particularly with the Drupal testing infrastructure. But that’s not all – and you’ll need to tune in to our Q4 update in early 2023 to get all the highlights. 

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As always, we’d like to thank all the volunteers who work with us and the Drupal Association Supporters who help to fund our work. In particular, we want to thank: 

If you would like to support our work as an individual or an organization, consider becoming a member of the Drupal Association. 

Follow us on Twitter for regular updates: @drupal_org, @drupal_infra

parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20221122 (‘Херсо́н’) released

Posted on by Michael G

GNU Parallel 20221122 (‘Херсо́н’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4

Quote of the month:

  [GNU Parallel] is the most amazing tool ever invented for bioinformatics!

    — Istvan Albert https://www.ialbert.me/

New in this release:

  • Support for IPv6 adresses and _ in hostnames in –sshlogin.
  • Use –total-jobs for –eta/–bar if generating jobs is slow.
  • A lot of bug fixed in –latest-line.
  • Better support for MSYS2.
  • Better Text::CSV error messages.
  • –bar supports UTF8.
  • GNU Parallel is now on Mastodon: @GNU_Parallel@hostux.social
  • Bug fixes and man page updates.

GNU Parallel – For people who live life in the parallel lane.

If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.

About GNU Parallel

GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.

GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.

For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:

  parallel –bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif

Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:

  find . -name ‘*.jpg’ |

    parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: – ::: 50 100 200

You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/

You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:

    $ (wget -O – pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ ||

       fetch -o – http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh

    $ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a

    12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a

    $ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0

    cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0

    $ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52

    79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224

    fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35

    $ bash install.sh

Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1

Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.

When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:

O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.

If you like GNU Parallel:

  • Give a demo at your local user group/team/colleagues
  • Post the intro videos on Reddit/Diaspora*/forums/blogs/ Identi.ca/Google+/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/mailing lists
  • Get the merchandise https://gnuparallel.threadless.com/designs/gnu-parallel
  • Request or write a review for your favourite blog or magazine
  • Request or build a package for your favourite distribution (if it is not already there)
  • Invite me for your next conference

If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:

  • Please cite GNU Parallel in you publications (use –citation)

If GNU Parallel saves you money:

About GNU SQL

GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases’ command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.

The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database’s interactive shell.

When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL – A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.

About GNU Niceload

GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11

Posted on by Michael G
Today the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store is dropping its “Preview” label and becomes generally available with our latest release! We are also making the Store version of WSL the default for new users who run wsl –install and easily upgradeable by running wsl –update for existing users. Using the Store version of WSL allows you to get updates to WSL much faster compared to when it was a Windows component. In response to the WSL community’s requests, WSL in the Store will now also be available on Windows 10 in addition to Windows 11. So, Windows 10 users will also be able to enjoy all of the latest features for WSL including systemd and Linux GUI app support! I obviously have no hard data on this, but I feel like WSL is actually quite popular among developers, as it gives Windows users easy access to a very popular tool chain and development platform. I don’t know just how transferable knowledge and experience gained through WSL is to “real” Linux, but it seems close enough.

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