diff --git a/source/_posts/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck.markdown b/source/_posts/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..59755106567 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +--- +title: The month of 'What the Heck?!' +description: "Ever felt that 'What the heck Home Assistant?!' moment? This month, we would like to learn about your 'what the heck?!' moments..." +date: 2020-08-18 00:00:00 +date_formatted: "August 18, 2020" +author: Franck Nijhof +author_twitter: frenck +categories: Announcements +og_image: /images/blog/2020-08-17-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png +--- + + + +Welcome to the month of “What the heck?!” + +Home Assistant is now almost around for 7 years! During that time, it has grown +into a big project, beloved by many of you. However, as the project grew, some +things might not have turned out the way it should be, are missing or maybe even +started annoying you. That is what this month is about. + +We realize reporting bugs on our [GitHub][github-issues] might be a steep hill. +You’ll need a GitHub account, report an issue following the issue templates +using Markdown and the report itself needs to be written in a way a developer +can work with it. Furthermore, we use our issue tracker for tracking actual +issues and bugs; not small feature requests or annoyances. + +While this is a common and reasonable process to collect, track and process +bugs, our issue tracking process might not be the ideal way to learn about +annoyances or small tweaks and improvements that can make us all enjoy +Home Assistant even more. + +In May, of this year, the Ruby on Rails project had a [similar month][rorwtf], +which we have enjoyed watching. Now, we are going to do something similar. + +Today, we have opened up a [Community Forum category][forum] as a safe, lower +barrier place to tell about your Home Assistant “What the heck?!” moments, +and more importantly, discuss and vote on topics your fellow users have +brought up. + +Frenck recently tried something similar for Home Assistant on Twitter, +by asking: + +

Enlighten me 💡

The whole community would celebrate and be shedding happy tears of joy, if this tiny little thing was added to @home_assistant...

— Franck Nijhof (@Frenck) July 21, 2020 +
+ +The responses to that question were amazing! Full of inspiration, recognition of +stuff that annoyed us as well, but also some really really good suggestions. +And this is not just about new tiny little things, examples may include: + +- I’d love to see some Home Assistant sensors with things like: The total + automations, triggers processed this hour, the total number of integrations, + entities, number of events fired. +- I want to be able to upload a backup on the frontend on the first install. +- Maybe you are annoyed by some logs that you need to refresh and scroll to see + updates? +- You have a lot of template entities that all do the same thing and maybe could + be handled by Home Assistant automatically. +- Always need a workaround to automate something the way you like and really + wished Home Assistant provided a better trigger/condition for it? + +These are the things we are looking for, the things we should share this month. + +We are really looking forward to all the stuff that will be brought up! +This will be interesting! + +**[Join us on the forums!][forum]** + +

+Image of a person expressing a what the heck moment +So, when does Home Assistant trigger this moment for you? +

+ +## FAQ + +- **_“I have multiple things! Should I put all my stuff in a single topic?!”_** + + No, please create multiple, smaller topics. Each topic can be voted on, + picked up and resolved. Having multiple things stacked in a single forum + topic, makes resolving, discussing and voting on them hard. There is no + limitation on how many things one can suggest this month. + +- **_"Is everything reported going to be fixed/addressed?"_** + + There is no guarantee that will happen. The goal is to lower the barrier to + reporting things for one month. Home Assistant still relies on contributors + to address or improve the project. However, we do think collecting feedback + this way can tremendously help with the upcoming + [Hacktoberfest][hacktoberfest]. + +- **_"I really want this new integration to be implemented, so I can use my + devices. Is this the right place for it?"_** + + No, this event is not for requesting new device or services integrations. + Please use the [“Feature Requests”][feature-requests] forum category instead. + +- **_"I’ve found a bug and am comfortable with GitHub. Where should I report my + issue now?"_** + + If you are comfortable with using GitHub, please, by all means, [file an issue + report on GitHub][github-issues]. + +[rorwtf]: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/7/A-May-of-WTFs/ +[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52 +[github-issues]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues +[feature-requests]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/feature-requests/13 +[hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com diff --git a/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/jackie-chan-what-the-heck.jpg b/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/jackie-chan-what-the-heck.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..986a962543f Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/jackie-chan-what-the-heck.jpg differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png b/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e4e86df7420 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png differ