For reviewing patches I try to use mostly http://drupal.org/project/drush_iq

Get latest code base

git checkout 8.x
git pull

Take an issue from the Issue Queue

Use the issue id or the issue id#comment to get a particular patch #

drush iq-apply-patch 1938158

Reinstall Drupal and work on the patch

Do what you have to do make Drupal work (again). And test or run tests

Change the patch and create a new one

diff 8.x > ~/Downloads/two-word-#nid-#comment.patch

Done

Trying to gra(s)p(h) Drupal\Tests\Core\Cache\BackendChainImplementationUnitTest

Trying to convert BlockStorageUnitTest to a real unit test. It seemed trival.

Below a graph generated from the module list of a Drupal 8 development site.

We all know Drupal and Symfony do have multilingual support (i18n, l10n, pluralization). But do they match? Or do they equally well? How does one test this? This is what I did. I wanted to add tests for Symfonfy's PluralizationRules as there were none and I wanted to have support for PluralForms loading Drupals *.po files clean and simple. How hard can it be?!? These tests should cover:

1. Langcodes. Are all known language codes available (or easy to add)?
2. Parsing Gettext PluralForm rules like

While still working on D8MI Let Symfony Translation component handle language messages I needed to code for Symfony to on the Translation component. So how does that work writing and testing Symfony code?

Download Symfony

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/symfony/symfony.git 
cd symfony
ls

Dependency management

One of the goals of Drupal 8 Multilingual Inititive is to refactor Gettext file handling by a component. The first effort was Make gettext .po generation its own abstracted functionality by Gábor Hojtsy, Sutharsan, fubhy, sun and clemens.tolboom While I (clemens.tolboom) was working on that issue I skimmed over the Translation component delivered by Symfony to see whether we could match their architecture (why reinvent components?) or even take over their components.

Can you tell the field display weights of all your entities with one command? Or edit a node through the command-line?

drush --yaml entity-type-read node --fields=**/display/**/weight --include-fieldapi
drush entity-update node 12 --json

Watch the video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGZzWjdDh8 and get convinced you want to know more of these entity internals.

Yesterday I ordered The definitive Guide to Drupal from the dutch online site comcol.nl. Awesome delivery. I have to read the monster 1047 pages but decided to cut it two pieces as that split version is allowed on my desk.