Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Posted on Oct 5, 2020 • Updated on Oct 13, 2020

Hacktoberfest Week Two — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

It’s the second week of Hacktoberfest and there’s no better way to celebrate that than to highlight the amazing people in our community who have contributed to Forem's codebase!

We’re thrilled to share that we’ve had 5 contributors in just a few short days commit improvements across the many projects we have in our web, iOS, and Android apps 🎉

Thanks to the help of these wonderful contributors, we’ve merged all 5 PRs this week. Forem is still a small team so this amount of feature-building and bug-squashing is truly only enabled because of the community. As Forem grows, we intend to continue enabling the open source community to improve and expand our offerings with their invaluable help. We appreciate the contributors for helping us sow this open source commitment from day one.

If you are interested in contributing check out our post on Forem projects you can contribute to this Hacktoberfest.

Contribute to Forem this Hacktoberfest!

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team ・ Oct 2 '20

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In no particular order, here are the folks who made commits this week, their GitHub profiles, and their merged PRs.

Rafi

Manage listing categories in dashboard #10506

Rafi993 posted on Oct 01, 2020

What type of PR is this?

[ ] Refactor
[x] Feature
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

It adds ability to add/update/remove listing categories in admin panel

Related Tickets & Documents

closes https://github.com/forem/forem/issues/10481

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

https://vimeo.com/463735841/dfe6705dab

Added tests?

[x] yes
[ ] no, because they aren't needed
[ ] no, because I need help

Added to documentation?

[ ] docs.forem.com
[ ] readme
[x] no documentation needed

View on GitHub

Robin Gagnon

Disable autoplay on native videos #10516

reobin posted on Oct 01, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[x] Feature? or is it
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

I'm not sure it 100% closes #6067 because the issue refers to a user setting for video autoplay.

The general consensus, for the moment, was to simply disable autoplay.

The autostart value was removed since it defaults to false, and the play() on ready was also removed.

Related Tickets & Documents

#6067

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Load up any article with a native video
Verify that it doesn't autoplay

Added tests?

[ ] yes
[x] no, because they aren't needed
[ ] no, because I need help

Added to documentation?

[ ] docs.forem.com
[ ] readme
[x] no documentation needed

View on GitHub

Sabarish Rajamohan

Updated minimum requirements for local installation on Windows #10513

sabarish98 posted on Oct 01, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[ ] Feature
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[x] Documentation Update

Description

Windows recently extended WSL 2 support for more versions/ builds. Updated the prerequisites to the exact versions given in Microsoft Docs.

Related Tickets & Documents

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

No need for QA

Added tests?

[ ] yes
[X] no, because they aren't needed
[ ] no, because I need help

Added to documentation?

[X] docs.forem.com
[ ] readme
[ ] no documentation needed

View on GitHub

Akshay Mahajan

added z-index to post editor options dropdown #10536

akshayymahajan posted on Oct 02, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[ ] Feature
[x] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

Added z-index to the post editor options dropdown to make sure that it always stays on top of other content.

Related Tickets & Documents

Fixes #10531

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Before

After

Added tests?

[ ] yes
[x] no, because they aren't needed
[ ] no, because I need help

Added to documentation?

[ ] docs.forem.com
[ ] readme
[x] no documentation needed

View on GitHub

Diogo Osório

Fixes 500 error when viewing the "Tag Mods" page without having the role on the database #10515

diogoosorio posted on Oct 01, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[x] Refactor
[ ] Feature
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

I think that the issue (#10060) is self-explanatory. What was happening with @msarit was that she was visiting the /admin/mods?state=tag_moderator without having a role named tag_moderator on the database.

The query class explicitly "blew up" in this condition. I tried to follow the approach proposed by @Zhao-Andy:

The query class now doesn't raise an exception in the scenario above. Instead returns an empty result set
The mods page now returns a generic "there are mods matching your search" warning if there are no mods matching the query

Related Tickets & Documents

#10060

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Go to the /admin/mods page
Search by a random text string which yields no results and see that a "no results" message is rendered
Delete the tag_moderator role from your database (Role.find_by(name: "tag_moderator").delete)
Go to /admin/mods?state=tag_moderator
See that a "no results" message is rendered