Drupal 7 does not include author name/email in posts

[lyndseypadget]

OS: M1 apple chip macos, Sonoma 14.7 Ruby version: 3.1.3p185 (2022-11-24 revision 1a6b16756e) [arm64-darwin23] Jekyll version: 3.10.0 Jekyll import version: 0.24.0

Importer: drupal7

I am importing posts (nodes) from a Drupal 7 database. The local version of this DB is running in a Docker container, MySql 8.0.39.

Because the Drupal 7 blog contained thousands of posts from hundreds of authors, I need the author information. This can be found in Drupal's users table, and is cross-referenced by the uid of the node. I am not a Drupal expert but I believe this relationship (between the node and users table) is reliable in all cases, and that the users table should contain at least a name and email.

For my purpose, I only need u.name (where u is an alias to the users table, and the name value is in the format first.last). I can see how u.mail (which is email address) would also be helpful, though.

I know how to fix this, and I will make a quick PR. However, I am also not a ruby developer, and the instructions to test don't work for me because

1. I cannot find script/console as described in the Contributing page and
2. I get a make error for dependency hpricot-0.8.6. This is likely due to the fact that I'm on an M1 mac, or I need to do a custom install/build of hpricot, or something.

Given the simple nature of the change and the testing issues I'm facing, I am hoping that someone can guide me through the process of testing this, or provide a build for me to install and test. 🙏