Better Formats stable release (7.x-1.0)

[...]BF in in D7 will focus on filling in the gaps that are not in core (mainly hiding format selection and field level defaults) and is under testing for a production stable release.[...]

Last release is from December '12. Is this a production stable release?

If it isn't abandoned can anyone help with my issue?
#2030011: Permissions not being saved.

it seems to be abandoned since last winter, which is a bummer.

what is even more surprising to me that this is not a standard configuration option in core when creating or managing content types! confounding.

this is one of the most commonly requested tips on forums, how to remove formatting guidelines and get rid of the clutter.

This issue has been sitting here for a while now. I opened:
#2212129: Better Formats Seems Abandoned - Please Change Status

There was activity in September. Perhaps it's just a matter of the maintainer (like so many others) needing help maintaining it.

I have not abandoned this module, however, it is true I have not had time for it lately.

I monitor the messages as they come through and there are not currently any issues marked RTBC. Nor has anyone come forward requesting to help with the module. So it would seem to me from that evidence, that either the module is fine as it is, or the community doesn't have time for it either.

All patches and serious maintainer requests will be considered.

Thanks @dragonwize!

I closed that other issue.

Can you change the maintenance status if you want help maintaining it? Having it set as Seeking co-maintainer might help.

We really don't have a means to draw new folks in as maintainers....

#42232: Help Maintainers Manage Issue Priority by Encouraging Voting or #2207949: Inspire New & Less Active Users to Become More Engaged with Drupal.org might help.

Is it possible to have a new stable release?

On the project page it reads;

Drupal 7: Most development is done. Needs heavy testing to create a stable production release. Not ready for use on production sites.

According to the usage statisics 28,000 sites are using 7.x of this module. Seems like it is stable and there aren't any open stable release blockers.

A 1.0 release would be great.

A release would be appreciated. I'm hesitating between using the dev or beta releases.

just confirming and cheering: would be very nice to have a stable release :/

I think the query "Module abandoned?" was really a not so polite way of asking for this.

Large dev user base seen, but it is difficult to tell where these are from since the developmental roadmap has been so protracted out...

However: 30,411 users with 7.x-1.0-beta1, and the current diff between the last tag & the 7.x-1.x branch contains a singular typo fix and a fix for a really irritating PHP notice. (patch below)

diff --git a/better_formats.module b/better_formats.module
index 8cfd34f..8f402a5 100644
--- a/better_formats.module
+++ b/better_formats.module
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ function better_formats_filter_process_format($element) {
           }
         }
         $element['format']['format']['#options'] = $options;
-        $element['format']['format']['#default_value'] = array_shift(array_keys($options));
+        $options_keys = array_keys($options);
+        $element['format']['format']['#default_value'] = array_shift($options_keys);
       }
     }
 
@@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ function better_formats_field_settings_form($bf_form = array()) {
   $form['better_formats']['default_order_toggle'] = array(
     '#type' => 'checkbox',
     '#title' => t('Override default order'),
-    '#description' => t('Override the gloabl order that will determine the default text format a user will get <strong>only on entity creation</strong>.'),
+    '#description' => t('Override the global order that will determine the default text format a user will get <strong>only on entity creation</strong>.'),
     '#weight' => 3,
     '#default_value' => $order_toggle_default,
   );

Happy to tag and release this myself if required, but I am not putting my hand up to maintain anything other than any negative side effects of the above (aka, nada).

The current beta release has a couple major issues, refer to the issue queue. Meaning that the current state is not in stable release shape.

Beta is a correct tagging and users should be have to be ok with that tag to use the module. The number of people is not the only factor that goes into tagging something stable, if it was we would have a lot of unstable dev code being tagged. Once stable it is a contract that we have tested and know it to be good and it then subjects it to all of Drupal's standards, including security checks.

I will not tag a stable release as is, and if you are not going to support it then you should not as well because if you do tag it you will be responsible for it .

lol, your standards are higher than many projects... I could easily point to some from core ;)

Jumping on board here and following.

Re: Mengi's comment #7

Is this module safe to use? Yes/no?

All I want to do is remove:

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags:

• Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

  I tried string overides but I can't get rid of the bullets and the second line.

  There is a piece of code for template.php https://www.drupal.org/node/35122#comment-9433771

  Not sure which direction to take.

  Ideally, I'd get rid of everything, so no choice of filtered of plain text, just make it an admin choice. My client hates that there is a choice there and the techie html info under it. Why is it there, just get rid of it as it confuses us ...

  Anyway, please let me know.

Can we use this issue to define a roadmap as to what is needed to get a stable release? (Or in other words, what would be needed to get to a stable release?)

Update summary with issue template.

Updated the title only. It makes it easier to track what this issue is from places like https://www.drupal.org/dashboard :)

There are no issues with the "D7 stable release blocker" tag currently.

Based on #11, maybe we should make the list all major and critical bugs?

I will put some time into progressing the bug issues ASAP.

It would be good to close out this request -- 5 years is a while after all -- and I guess simply merging any easy RTBC and tagging the results might be a good enough response.

Released this:

https://www.drupal.org/project/better_formats/releases/7.x-1.0-beta3

And for those using PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, use the latest 2.0 release (currently 7.x-2.0-beta1)

https://www.drupal.org/project/better_formats/releases/7.x-2.0-beta1

1 Fix since 7.x-1.x-beta3
#2832330: Removing the format field breaks other modules
2 Fixes since 7.x-1.x-beta2
#2896131: XSS issue in the codebase
#2118951: Fix for a notice: index not found "fieldable'
2 new features since 7.x-1.x-beta2
#2845424: Allow FAPI forms to trigger Better Formats programmatically
#1689630: Change default text processing to filtered text

https://www.drupal.org/project/better_formats/releases/7.x-2.0-beta3
and
https://www.drupal.org/project/better_formats/releases/7.x-1.0-beta5

Looking at the activity for this module. Will we ever have a 7.x-1.x stable version? And why do we want that when 7.x.2.x already have first RC out?

7.x-2.0-rc1
and 7.x-1.x-beta6 are tagged

afaik, they should both compatible with PHP 8.2

7.x-1.x is by far the most installed

https://www.drupal.org/project/better_formats/releases/7.x-1.0

tagged and released

I stand corrected. Thank you for blowing through the issues and pushing a new version.

#3262304: [PHP 8] Returning bool from comparison function is deprecated was not backported to 1.x and version 1.0 still shows warning on php 8.1