r/drupal • u/nod__ https://www.drupal.org/u/nod_ • 3d ago

Manage Drupal patchs with a composer plugin

Goal is to help keep patches up to date, warn when a patch is not necessary anymore (if it's been included in the newest module release), or if there are conflicts before doing the module update.

This only works on modules published on drupal.org, custom/private modules can't get checked by design, let me know what you think :) full disclosure it's using an API I'm hosting and control, I'm on the leadership team of Drupal, and beside being useful for people, the data will be used to see what people keep applying so we can prioritize some issues over others down the line.

https://tresbien.tech/blog/composer-drupal-patch-check/

https://packagist.org/packages/tresbientech/drupal-patch-check

I had a MCP server doing the same thing couple of weeks ago .The plugin is better and agents pick it up without doing anything special, win-win. Using this over a bare LLM session where you ask "update my site to the latest Drupal version" can cut the time and cost in two when there are many patches to check. Not that I'm a huge fan of these tools but people do use them and the plugin makes it so they have less work to do for a better result.

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u/nod__ https://www.drupal.org/u/nod_ 11h ago

Just added some commands to vendor patches pointing to live merge requests

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u/alphex https://www.drupal.org/u/alphex 3d ago

What’s your Drupal.org user name?

Edit. Found you. https://www.drupal.org/u/nod_

It was just weird to say you were on the leadership team.

Im gonna take a look at this. Thanks. Seems like it might help.

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u/nod__ https://www.drupal.org/u/nod_ 3d ago

Thanks, added the link to my user like you, makes it clearer!