Blog: Summing up month of WTH (#14570)

Co-authored-by: Paulus Schoutsen <balloob@gmail.com>

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+title: Summing-up the month of 'What the heck?!'
+description: All good things come to an end, including the month of 'What the heck?!'. So, how was this first edition?
+date: 2020-09-19 00:00:00
+date_formatted: "September 19, 2020"
+author: Franck Nijhof
+author_twitter: frenck
+comments: true
+categories: Announcements
+og_image: /images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png
+---
+
+<a href='https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52'><img src='/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png' class='no-shadow'></a>
+
+A month ago, I wrote [a blog post][kickoff], starting our first month of
+"What the heck?!" (WTH) ever! An experiment and without any expectations,
+as we have never had done something like this before. But WTH, why not 😁
+
+And today, I think we can actually say: All good things come to an end.
+
+It has been an amazing month! A whopping 746 topics have been created in the
+[WTH forum][forum], that together collected over 4.500 posts. The contents of
+all these created topics are amazing! And apparently, you all agreed on that,
+as a stunning 2.600 likes have been given on all those posts.
+
+About the content, it is amazing! There was some really good feedback in there.
+Annoyances made many people think: “Yeah! What the heck?!” and more importantly,
+developers chimed in as well!
+
+Developers dived in and started resolving and fixing stuff! At the moment
+of writing, a whopping 68 pull requests with code changes to address those WTHs
+have been made. A lot of these are already shipped with the [0.115 birthday
+release][release].
+
+## So, what was fixed?
+
+Let's take a quick peek at stuff that was reported and fixed/addressed/improved
+(in no particular order):
+
+- [Duplicate Automation Button](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/duplicate-automation-button/219646)
+- [Manage sidebar/menu items (hide/add/move)](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/manage-sidebar-menu-items-hide-add-move/219476)
+- [Stop requiring magic to enable templates](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/stop-requiring-magic-to-enable-templates/219523)
+- [WTH can I not use the update button while running an NGINX HA proxy](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-can-i-not-use-the-update-button-while-running-an-nginx-ha-proxy/221061)
+- [How the heck can I set this user picture?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-the-heck-can-i-set-this-user-picture/219511)
+- [Why the heck isn’t there any official macOS desktop app?!](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/why-the-heck-isnt-there-any-official-macos-desktop-app/221014)
+- [What the heck turned my light on?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/what-the-heck-turned-my-light-on/219488)
+- [Reload integrations indiviudally](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/reload-integrations-indiviudally/220478)
+- [Why doesn’t a trigger platform for state attributes exist?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/why-doesnt-a-trigger-platform-for-state-attributes-exist/219651)
+- [WTH why can’t I permanently delete jinja2 tutorial in the template editor](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-cant-i-permanently-delete-jinja2-tutorial-in-the-template-editor/220486)
+- [WTH why can’t an administrator change a user’s password](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-cant-an-administrator-change-a-users-password/219971)
+- [WTH: Can’t we see which trigger fired an automation?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-cant-we-see-which-trigger-fired-an-automation/220888)
+- [Set static IP in supervisor](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/set-static-ip-in-supervisor/219780)
+- [WTH: Why can’t I use “for” without defining a “to”-state in automations?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-can-t-i-use-for-without-defining-a-to-state-in-automations/222137)
+- [Option to template the keys in data_template in addition to only values](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/option-to-template-the-keys-in-data-template-in-addition-to-only-values/219513)
+- [WTH Slack no username/icon customization](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-slack-no-username-icon-customization/220227)
+- [Dev Tools –> Template – WTH isn’t it refreshing automatically?!](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/dev-tools-template-wth-isnt-it-refreshing-automatically/219542)
+- [Why the heck is a restart needed for each an every change to configuration.yaml?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/why-the-heck-is-a-restart-needed-for-each-an-every-change-to-configuration-yaml/219630) (Partly solved, much progress is made available already)
+- [WTH do pressing update button doesn’t have confirmation](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-do-pressing-update-button-doesnt-have-confirmation/219628)
+- [WTH can’t I click outside of a dialog to close the dialog?](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-cant-i-click-outside-of-a-dialog-to-close-the-dialog/222756)
+
+This list isn't even complete, but gives a nice idea of what when on. We think
+it is an impressive accomplishment. If you are a bit into GitHub, you can find
+[all pull requests made for the month of WTH][prs], as they are all labeled
+with "WTH".
+
+## Closing the WTH forum & Hacktoberfest
+
+As said, all good things come to an end. We are going to close the WTH forum.
+This means that no new WTH topics can be created, but everything will remain
+visible.
+
+Hacktoberfest is right around the corner and all current data in that forum
+can really help drive it. It is a great resource for developers to find
+opportunities to contribute on during the October month. So, while we close
+it down, we hope more will be addressed.
+
+Why not run this WTH all the time? Well, it looses its power over time. This is
+already visible right now when comparing the velocity at the beginning and end
+of the month.
+
+However, let's see if we can do it again next year. Maybe, we should combine
+it with Hacktoberfest in 2021?
+
+How did you experience the month of WTH? Should we do it again?
+
+[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52
+[hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
+[kickoff]: /blog/2020/08/18/the-month-of-what-the-heck/
+[prs]: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=org%3Ahome-assistant+label%3AWTH+is%3Apr&s=created&type=Issues
+[release]: /blog/2020/09/17/release-115/

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