The End of an Era
In May 2010, by pure accident, I stumbled into a software community that ended up redefining my life and career. And for eight and a half years, I have given a substantial portion of myself back to Joomla and the Open Source Software community. But that is no longer sustainable, and it's not something I particularly enjoy doing anymore, so within the next couple of months I will be withdrawing myself as an active contributor to Joomla (and probably most open source outside of select projects or needs).
Open Sourcing Docs Concept
For various reasons I don't really feel like getting into right now, I've honestly been feeling a fair bit burned out on Open Source contributions or just coding outside work in general lately, and as a result a lot of ideas and concepts I've started are just going nowhere. In the interest of sharing though, in the off chance there might be interest from someone in picking up on what was started, I've open sourced one of the concepts I started on; an upgraded version of the Joomla! API Documentation website, available at https://github.com/mbabker/api-docs.
Joomla! 3.6 Cache Changes
With the release of Joomla! 3.6, additional error handling was introduced to the caching layer to help prevent issues. Unfortunately, this has exposed some misconfigured sites and has been met with calls for the change to be reverted and for Joomla to essentially discard cache layer errors silently. I'm going to explain here why the changes were made, how this is consistent with the rest of the method's error checks, and what can be done to make this error happen less frequently.
Joomla! 3.5.1 Mail Changes
Joomla! 3.5.1 was released yesterday and reports have been coming in regarding new errors from the mail API. While this is annoying, there is a strong reason why this needed to happen and the repercussions of it.
Final Thoughts - Joomla Organizational Restructure
Over the course of Joomla's organizational restructure chats, I've been accused of a lot of things, most likely rightfully so. Anywhere from resisting change to hurting progress, and things like trolling and making false accusations. I'm probably guilty of all of the above in some way, so to keep myself from being an issue, these are going to be my last words on the topic.