Cachet Update - Oct 2024
Yeah... it's been a while, I'm sorry! As is always the way in life, things come up and something has to give to make space. Unfortunately, Cachet and Checkmango, my two projects were those things.
The biggest part of this was my promotion at Laravel. I'm now an Engineering Team Lead and that has taken up a lot of my time. I love my job and so I've been giving it my all. We're in a good place now and so we're back!
Hacktoberfest
As we're already in October now, let's start with this. Hacktoberfest has always been a big part of Cachet, especially in the early days and I'm excited to bring this back to v3.x development and get new developers involved in what we're doing.
Last night, I added a bunch of issues to the cachethq/core repository. Most of them are small, good first issues and ideal candidates for people looking to get involved with Hacktoberfest.
Open Issues
Speaking of issues, I realise that not having an overview of issues for people to tackle has definitely been a blocker in getting other people to contribute and help push Cachet along.
I already have a list of additional things that need doing and they'll be added to the GitHub issues list shortly!
Fixes
We've also been busy over the last month or so pushing fixes to the cachethq/core repository.
Since announcing the Hacktoberfest issues were added, a few developers got in touch to say that they were having difficulty in getting the core set up. We've now fixed a couple of bugs that were causing things like the dashboard to not be available on the correct route. We hope that making these changes makes it easier for people to get started contributing to Cachet.
Developer Documentation / Screencasting
Something we've been thinking about is improving the documentation around how to get started developing with Cachet. The existing documentation does not do a great job of that currently.
Further, I'm going to record a few screencasts that show how to get set up with Cachet and maybe even streaming some work.
Watch this space!