Nate has recently revived the feature request Add option to globally disable comments on a content type and asked if somebody is interested in advocating for this issue. I don't want to advocate for the issue (have another in mind), but I'm definitely interested in reviving it. However, to me it's not yet clear what exactly we're trying to achieve there. Therefore, I suggest to discuss the goals of the issue at the weekly meeting.
This issue relates to the occasional, but common enough to warrant attention, issue of the status report showing a warning of site updates required, but when going to run updates, nothing happens: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/7010
More details in the issue and there is a Pull Request but so far no testing or review other than what I have done.
There is a Drupal 7 contrib module that "lets the administrator see all administration pages in her preferred language" and which could be ported to Backdrop: https://www.drupal.org/project/...
Posted4 days 10 hours ago by Olaf Grabienski (Olafski) on:
@stpaultim – You're right: my approach affects also the main menu. I guess, because menus are also considered as user interface (not as content).
@findlabnet – If I didn't miss anything,...
Posted4 days 10 hours ago by Olaf Grabienski (Olafski) on:
@olaf - Sorry, but I don't think that works. I tried it and you are correct, with this change, I can switch from the English version to the German version of a page, without changing the entire...
Use case is an English speaking support person working on a multilingual site and fixing bugs with the French translation of the content.
I found one solution for your use...
Posted4 days 21 hours ago by Olaf Grabienski (Olafski) on:
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Nate has recently revived the feature request Add option to globally disable comments on a content type and asked if somebody is interested in advocating for this issue. I don't want to advocate for the issue (have another in mind), but I'm definitely interested in reviving it. However, to me it's not yet clear what exactly we're trying to achieve there. Therefore, I suggest to discuss the goals of the issue at the weekly meeting.
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/7010
More details in the issue and there is a Pull Request but so far no testing or review other than what I have done.
Re PHP 8.5 compatibility: not ready yet for review, but tests are passing now.
So, still work in progress with issue #7008.