Improve setup UX when using a password manager, Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2024 - This week in Orchard (16/08/2024)
Improve setup UX when using a password manager, add RemovePart<TPart> extension, and it's time to nominate exemplary community members for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award. Let's see the details!
Orchard Core updates
Improve setup UX when using a password manager
During local development, you will want to reuse saved admin credentials. The browser's password manager is helpful here, but the setup screen fails to anticipate this scenario. As you fill in the saved password, the strength bar under the password field doesn't update, and the Finish Setup button won't do anything, as if broken. You have to click into the password field and press a key. This is a minor annoyance, but it's persistent when you work with Orchard Core a lot.
The solution here is that from now on, the strength function handles change events too, not just keydown and keyup. Also clicking on the Finish Setup button is triggering it as well, instead of silently failing.
Add RemovePart<TPart> extension
We have a RemovePart method in the ContentTypeDefinitionBuilder class, which can be used to remove a Content Part from a Content Type. To call that method, you need to pass the name of the Content Part as a string, like RemovePart("BodyPart"). And from now on, the new extension of the RemovePart method accepts the Content Part itself, like RemovePart<BodyPart>().
News from the community
Georg von Kries is a new maintainer of Orchard Core
Georg von Kries has made more than 100 contributions this year to Orchard Core! We are glad to announce that he is now a new maintainer of the Orchard Core repository with commit rights to this repository. Thanks go to Georg, who has done a lot for Orchard Core!
Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2024
At the end of last year, our good friend, Jean-Thierry Kéchichian, a truly extraordinary member of our community unexpectedly passed away. To honor him, keep his memory alive, and foremost, inspire people to do good work for the community, we launched an award named after him for exceptional community members.
Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core. This can entail activities in the form of e.g., code contributions (including documentation), help under issues and discussion, evangelization outreach, community management, or anything else. However, it needs to be public and tangible. It's your turn to nominate a community member! You will find this discussion in GitHub where you can mention somebody who you think has done most for Orchard Core, with a sentence explaining what they've done.
Nominations are open until the 27th at midnight, Anywhere on Earth. After that, we'll vote on the nominees secretly. The winner is then announced at the Orchard Harvest conference on the 12th of September.
Orchard Harvest 2024
The full Orchard Harvest program has finally arrived. This year’s program is packed with insightful sessions, engaging panels, and ample opportunities to connect with the Orchard community and to make Orchard Harvest the biggest Orchard Core event of the year. All sessions will be recorded and published on the Orchard YouTube channel after the event, so even if you can't make it live, you can see the sessions. However, being there live will allow you to ask the speakers, meet other community members, and have a lot of fun!
All indicated times are local time in Las Vegas. After each session, you'll have a chance to ask questions, and we'll have a short break too. Here is a detailed schedule to help you prepare for the conference.
Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on this YouTube channel here.
Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024 and get ready to level up your skills! See you there!
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