Backdrop CMS is about 45 days away from our 22nd on-time release, version 1.21.0. Every 4 months, we release a new version which brings with it new improvements and features to Backdrop CMS. Feature freeze is scheduled for January 1, 2022 and the release will be on Jan 15th. In the final weeks of each release cycle, there is a frenzy of activity and we try to get new improvements finalized and approved.
If you have contributed to Backdrop CMS core in the past or have plans to do so in the future, now is a great time to lend us a hand. We've asked members of the community to identify the issues that they would most like to see get some attention in the final month of the development cycle. Here are the issues they have identified as most needing some attention - testing, feedback, code reviews, or additional work on the code (up to 3 issues per person).
We will be scheduling some virtual sprints this month to help move these issues forward. Watch our events page for sprint opportunities or office hours.
We will be updating this list periodically through the release of 1.21.0. Please, contact us in Zulip if you would like to add your own issues to this list.
Issues from this list that need More Feedback:
- Issue #599 - Trim summary on word boundary
Issues from this list that need Code Review:
- Issue #4868 - Layout listing: Add help text, to explain how the order and grouping in that page works
Issues from this list that have been promoted to RTBC:
- Issue #4689 - Negative Visibility Condition for Roles
- Issue #5264 - Clean up english on number form validation failure
- Issue #2668 - Layout and Block visibility conditions: add validation when entering entity IDs to ensure that only numbers are allowed
- Issue #5280 - View mode not accessible from user or comment template files
- Issue #4689 - Negative Visibility Condition for Roles
Issues from this list that have been merged:
- Issue #2069 - Date format tokens for date field missing - MERGED
Individual Priorities
Olaf Grabienski
1) Issue #4052 - Flexible layout templates: Allow custom ID for rows - Needs PR
2) Issue #2658 - CKEditor: Allow Image Styles to be used with inline images - Needs PR
Greg Netsas (@klonos)
1) Issue #1040 - Add inline form errors - Needs PR and feedback
2) Issue #5348 - [D8] Allow forms to set custom validation error messages on required fields - Was RTBC, but now needs additional work.
Robert Lang (@bugfolder)
1) Issue #2626 - Add a contextual menu for quick access to editing things like the layout, theme, etc. of the current page - Has PR (admin bar approach), needs code review
2) Issue #4868 - Layout listing: Add help text, to explain how the order and grouping in that page works - "Works for Me", needs code review.
Tim Erickson (@stpaultim)
1) Issue #4903 - Provide a new 'hidden-path' content type in core - Needs feedback. I am working on this issue and implementing feedback. My recent PR works locally, but is not working in Tugboat sandbox, need help with that.
3) Issue #5183 - Pageless Node titles still link to the node page even when access is denied - Needs tests.
Peter Anderson (@BWPanda)
1) Issue #599 - Trim summary on word boundary - PR marked "Works for Me", needs code review, needs more feedback
Laryn Kragt Bakker (@laryn)
1) Issue #3245 - [UX] Hide "Run Database Updates" / next steps if there are no next steps - Has PR. Needs testing and feedback.
Wilbur Ince
1) Issue #5398 - Support php 8.1 - Needs work.
PR = Pull request
NOTE: These issues or proposed solutions have not been endorsed by the core team. They are simply the issues that individuals in the community would like you to look at and weigh in on - inclusion on this list does not mean that these issues will necessarily be accepted into core.