Drupal Hackfest at the Sheraton

Spent all day today down at the Sunnyvale Sheraton, where the Drupal folks managed to hire out a big room, and to fill it with an abundance of Wi-fi, coffee, and donuts. So that we could conduct the Drupal Hackfest. The day was a great success, with close to 100 developers churning away code throughout the room, and working through the core issue queue, and with three core committers present to help get those patches in once and for all, by making core CVS commits.

Refreshments were of a high standard all day, with free coffee and Krispy Kreme donuts available in the morning, and with great bulk-ordered California burritos for lunch. Nobody went hungry or thirsty, so we were all able to comfortably keep hacking all day long.

Biggest commit of the day was Eaton's patch to replace all the various hook_xyz_alter() invocations in core with a new, generic drupal_alter() function. Got committed about 5pm, by Dries, with help from many other people (including a review and +1 from myself).

A little of the day in pictures:

The “head table” — turned out to become a “mac-only zone”.

Whiteboard with node IDs of today’s critical issues.

Harry Slaughter, who was next to me at my table, and who gave me a lift back to the station (where I am right now, using the ever-present-around-here free Wi-fi to write this blog post!).