Drupal Core Patching

The following is a brief list of patches to the Drupal 6 and 7 core that I helped produce. Most of the patches implement changes made from Drupal 6 to 7, while others are minor edits to documentation or UI text.

The patches mainly involve a mix of changes to Drupal’s CSS, PHP, HTML and Javascript files. The testing environment was initially a Drupal instance installed into an Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP environment. Latter patches were written in a Linux/nginx/MySQL/PHP environment. Edits were all made with Notepad2, “a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting”.¹

Drupal snapshots were mostly retrieved through the official CVS repositories. Following the migration from CVS to Git in late-2010, snapshots were retrieved through Git.

• Patch #461938 by Kars-T, Garrett Albright, JamesAn, grendzy
  fixed inconsistent use of filter_xss_admin() on () an
• #480424 by JamesAn
  Update locale module to use drupal_static().
• #480430 by JamesAn
  Update search module to use drupal_static().
• #423822 by JamesAn, agentrickard, and michaelfavia
  Update node module to use drupal_static().
• Patch #437018 by JamesAn
  convert form_options_flatten() in form.inc to use new static caching API.
• Patch #481498 by JamesAn
  convert simpletest to drupal_static().
• Patch #489402 by Jody Lynn JamesAn
  removing unused code.
• #480414 by JamesAn
  Convert comment module to drupal_static caching.
• Patch #391412 by JamesAn et al
  move contact form, post, and user settings below Site configuration.
• #266153 by JamesAn
  Add a description for user-personalizable blocks.
• Patch #481502 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #481504 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #481500 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #480412 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #480426 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #480112 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #480102 by JamesAn
  converted to drupal_static().
• Patch #480418 by JamesAn
  introduces drupal_static().
• #408876 by JamesAn
  Document Schema API's serialize property.
• #482920 follow-up by JamesAn
  Fix typos and let the tests pass again.
• #481508 by JamesAn
  Update update module to use drupal_static().
• Patch #480428 by JamesAn
  static caching API.
• Patch #422362 by JamesAn
  convert form.inc to use new static caching API.
• Patch #364487 by JamesAn
  make sure that the 'machine name' text does not wrap.
• Patch #19646 by JamesAn
  added CHANGELOG.txt entry.
• Patch #422358 by JamesAn, pwolanin
  convert common.inc to use new static caching API.
• Patch #335067 by JamesAn
  improved singular/plural strings in the simpletest UI.
• Patch #19646 by JamesAn
  code clean up, consistently use define.
• Patch #339417 by yoroy, Shawn DeArmond, JamesAn
  added some extra comment documentation.
• Patch #19646 by akahn, JamesAn
  make it possible to suspend a feed.
• Patch #60468 by alex_b, JamesAn
  allow aggregator feed items to never be discarded.
• #270685 follow-up by JamesAn
  Remove unneeded code.
• Patch #271515 by JamesAn
  corrected PHPdoc.
• Patch #370276 by JamesAn
  improved help text of authoring field.
• #270685 by JamesAn
  Expand title/body fieldset by default so that it can be found.
• Patch #422368 by JamesAn
  converted menu.inc to the new static caching API.
• Patch #372471 by JamesAn et al
  killed theme_box().
• Patch #369587 by JamesAn
  removed code comment that is incorrect.
• Patch #422364 by JamesAn
  converted locale.inc to use new static caching API.
• Patch #422374 by JamesAn
  convert to use the new static caching API.
• Patch #417560 by JamesAn
  moving the test files to a test directory.
• Patch #418760 by JamesAn
  moving the test files to the test directory.
• Patch #397800 by JamesAn
  cleaned up some PHPdocs.