Amacrine

You may remember that back in February, Drupal announced that Peter Cawley (Corsix) was chosen as the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) winner for the Drupal project. It turns out that finding a time when the 10 grand prize winners, their parents, and a mentor from each of the 10 participating open source projects were all free was not easy, but we finally got together this week for the official awards ceremony.

I want to thank everyone who contributed to my DrupalCon 2008 ChipIn. I've now met my goal and will definitely be at DrupalCon.

If you're looking for a worthy individual to contribute to, I recommend that you take a look at the work that Jimmy Berry has done. He's a new Drupal contributor and one of our great GHOP students. As one of his GHOP tasks he created a VersionControl API backend for the Git revision control system. This is some pretty impressive stuff for someone who had never used Git before. Check out Webchick's post about Jimmy and how you can help get him to DrupalCon.

I've just committed the first code for the new comment alter taxonomy module. This module will allow users with certain permissions to change taxonomy terms associated with a node from comments on that node. The main motivation behind this module was to make it possible to have labels/tags on project issues like "needs doxygen", "benchmark", and "newbie", etc. Instead of just adding this functionality to the project issue tracking module itself, I thought it would make more sense to create a generalized module that works for all node types, not just project issue nodes.

[Edit: I've now met my ChipIn goal. See my Thank you post if you're still interested in helping out Project*.]
Development of Drupal core as well as all contributed modules relies on the Project and Project issue tracking modules (collectively called Project*). We've planned some big changes for these modules, and you can help make this happen sooner rather than later. Derek Wright (dww), Chad Phillips (hunmonk), and myself (Adam Light, or aclight on Drupal.org), have all expressed interest in working together at DrupalCon Boston 2008 to get some significant work done on Project*. What we (and especially I) need is financial assistance to make sure that the three of us are able to come together and start coding.