Talking Drupal #477 - Drupal Association CTO Then & Now

Today we are talking about being the CTO of the Drupal
Association, How the job has changed, and How its impacted Drupal
with guests Josh Mitchell & Tim Lehnen. We’ll also cover
Automatic Anchors as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/477
Topics

How long ago were you CTO Josh

Tim when did you take over

DA infrastructure

Drupal Credit System

Josh's proudest moment

Tim's proudest moment

Growth

Josh if you could do one thing differently

Tim if you could make one change

Future of the CTO job

Resources

OOP Hook conversion

Oregon State University Open Source Lab

Whuffie: Cory doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Rethink weighing of contrib projects and credits

Guests

Tim Lehnen - aspenthornpress.com hestenet
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Joshua "Josh" Mitchell - joshuami.com joshuami
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted headings on your Drupal site to have
unique id values, so links can be created to take users to
specific parts of any page? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Automatic Anchors



Brief history

How old: created in Jun 2020 by Chris Komlenic (komlenic)
of Penn State

Versions available: 2.1.1-beta1, which supports Drupal
8.8, 9, and 10



Maintainership

Test coverage

Number of open issues: x open issues, y of which are bugs
against the current branch



Usage stats:

137 sites



Module features and usage

By default, the module automatically generates ids on , ,
, , and elements within the page content

Even if two headings have the same content, the module
will make sure their ids are unique, as well as making sure
they are i18n-friendly, use hyphens instead of spaces, and
are short enough to be useful

The module won’t interfere with or change manually-added
or already-existing HTML ids

There’s a permission to view helpful links on each
heading that the ids obvious and easy to copy

Configuration options include the root element it should
look within (defaults to the body tag), which elements should
get ids, what content to use for the displayed links, and
whether or not generate ids on admin pages