I Am Timothy

For a prospective job, I was asked to describe my contributions to Drupal.

Reflecting on how to quantify such a thing, my first reaction was to check my Certified to Rock score. My rating is still 3, but it was at 3 a year ago. Since then, I've become a co-maintainer of the Station module, become more vocal in IRC (you can usually find me in #drupal, #drupal-support, #drupal-contribute, #drupal-html5, and #drupaldelphia), and been involved with Drupal 7's new default theme Bartik (at least since it's inclusion in core).

The Drupal core issue queue can be a scary place. I've been lurking there for 2 years, reading insanely long threads about parts of Drupal core that I hope I never am responsible for. I have lost at least a week of my life reading about the menu system (it's terrifying). But I've never, ever, posted anything.

In certain situations, allowing the public to see exactly when a node was published or who wrote it may not be desired. The easiest solution is to not display the information (admin/themes/settings). However, that removes the valuable information for all users, even content editors.

On a site that has content being updated on-the-hour, knowing who posted a node or when it was last updated is a constant necessity. Editing the node, scrolling down, and clicking on the appropriate fieldset becomes tedious after a while. Writing a custom preprocess function would allow any customization of the display of information, but couldn't this be easier with a module?

Enter the About This Node module!