Benjamin Melançon

A biased list by Benjamin Melançon. Suggestions and edits welcome.

Drutopia is an initiative to build software for grassroots groups, in part funded and hosted by a platform cooperative.

Here's a collection of value statements at diverse companies, as Agaric considers defining some more public values ourselves.

Nava PBC has a comprehensive set of well-thought-out values, entitled Nava's Core Values:

The convenience (can actually be used) and security balance is the real magic in this space. For example, i am at this moment fairly afraid that i've forgotten my SpiderOak passphrase and lost the backup piece of paper. On my ToDo list for months has been check if i can still access my data and then re-up the subscription. I own my failings, but i suspect other humans share them. Perhaps tiers of data security in one service could be an answer? One tier, the lowest, can be recovered with a password reset to e-mail, so the private key actually stored somewhere with you.

GitLab has time tracking (caveat: Unfortunately this is the Enterprise Edition, not the fully Free Software Community Edition). See:

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A client using the Bulk invite module (by Agaric's David Valdez) had invited hundreds of users with slightly malformed usernames— two spaces between first and last name when there should only be one.

Note that you need to do the change both in the users_field_data table and the users_field_revision table— and you need to clear caches when you're done to see the change on user edit pages, which is where it matters.

There is sadly no default way to do this directly from GitLab.com— but there's a pretty simple way, with Bishop:

https://github.com/ta/bishop

Install Heroku locally. These instructions from https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-ruby#set-up worked great for me:

After we did the upgrade of a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8, a date field which had been taking only the date portion, and no time portion, was now configured to take both the date and the time. Moreover, the migration wasn't working.

We changed the configuration from datetime to date

Here's the relevant part of the diff for config/default/field.storage.node.field_pub_date.yml

In virtual machine:

An approach for keeping content that is added as part of development synchronized with test and production environments is to use the Default Content module to export the content. It's built for the content to be exported to an installation profile's 'content' folder, and then the module, if enabled, automatically brings the content in when the site is installed.