Views 4.6 maintainer wanted
I'm looking for someone to maintain the 4.6 branch of Views. Back when I made the jump to 4.7, I had the delusion that 4.7 would be out, ready and stable by now, and the majority of 4.6 users would've been in the process of converting by now. But as it is, I suspect a lot of sites are going to stay with 4.6 for a long time to come. The process of updating modules is pretty difficult. The 4.6 version of Views functions, but is way way behind the curve, and can't do a lot of the good things that the 4.7 version can. At the very least, I'd like to see if anyone is willing to shoulder the burden of maintaining the 4.6 module so that I can ignore it; and also of backporting some of the 4.7 stuff to 4.6 (possibly using Nedjo's backport module if it can be made to work) so that people stuck on 4.6 can at least use it reasonably.
Robert Garrigós Castro wrote:
If I can be of any help I will try it.
I will be one of those users stuck on 4.6 until internationalization works with 4.7 at least like it works now with 4.6 (I wish it was already in the core....anyway). And Views is one of those 'must to have' modules. I'm also one of those users that think that 4.6 branch needs to be maintained a bit more than it is now (I understand the reasons behind) so the best I can do is put my hands on the keyboard.
I won't lie to you and say it's an *easy* task. But anyone working on it is better than no one working on it! There's really 2 levels of what needs to be done: 1) simple enhancements or bug-fixes to the 4.6 version to bring it a little more into line with what it needs to be in order to really be useful, functional software for sites. 2) Backporting the 4.7 stuff. This will undoubtedly require gettting up close and personal with the forms api -- I did a lot of interesting and evil things. Go ahead and join the Views Developer's Group on groups.drupal.org and we can set up a discussion on the topic.
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Earl Miles -
Robert Garrigós Castro