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Community Bonding with Drupal | GSoC'19


This year I got selected into Google Summer of Code (GSoC'19) under Drupal for the project "Complete porting of Icon API to Drupal 8". The Icon API is a module which integrates the icons throughout the drupal site. This blog post focuses on Community bonding period with Drupal for GSoC'19. This year, accepted proposals/projects were announced on May 6, 23:30 IST. The selected students are supposed to participate in the Community bonding before the coding phase actually begins. The coding phase starts from May 27 and ends on August 26 with three project evaluations.
The Community bonding period is almost a month long and the students are supposed to contact their mentors to discuss the project, learn more about the organisation's they are contributing to, learn the essentials APIs or technologies required to complete the project.
I contacted my mentor Chiranjeeb Mahanta who was the GSoC'17 student worked on the project Porting Wish list module to Drupal 8. I maintained regular contact with my mentor over the Slack and Google Hangouts to discuss about the project. During the application period I had already started porting one of the sub-module called Icon Block. Icon Block is a module which integrates the icons to the block title and content by providing the Icon details in the individual block configuration forms. There were few issues with the module like the icons were not properly shown on the title of some blocks(like the Tools block) so my mentor wanted me to get started with the project soon and gave me the following tasks:
  • Fix the issues with the Icon Block module.
  • Create new module page for the project.
  • Learn all the essential APIs for the project.
For the first week of the coding period I'll be working on fixing all the bugs with the Icon Block module, implementing the plugin system for the modules to install the Icon bundles and creating the basic skeleton for the Font Awesome Icon bundle(fontawesome_bundle).
I would be regularly posting weekly updates related to my project and hope to complete it on time.
Best wishes to all the selected students. Let’s have a great summer ahead!

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