Drupal 8 Initiatives

Josef Dabernig / dasjo

DrupalCamp Ruhr 2018

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It takes initiative...

Drupal core initiatives

Achievements

How does it work?

Getting involved

We are

HIRING

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Mapping

Drupal core initiatives

Drupal Core Initiatives

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Drupal Core Initiatives

• Views in Drupal Core (VDC)

• Mobile

• Spark

• Date in Eight

• WYSIWYG

Achievements

Media

Media

Media in core

Entity Browser, Media Entity

General plan issue, Essentials round 1, Dashboard,

Media

Media

8.4.0 Media API in core but hidden

8.5.0 Media improved & visible in core

Migrate

Migrate

Stabilize the older Drupal to newer Drupal migration system

Provide a stable Migration API in core

Resolve all "Migrate critical" issues

Drupal 6 -> 8, 7 -> 8 Migrations

Plan issue

Migrate Contributors

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Migrate

8.1.0 Experimental UI for migrations from Drupal 6 and 7

8.4.0 Updated migrations

8.5.0 Migrate and Migrate UI stable (without mulitlingual)

After over four years of work with over 570 contributors and 1300+ closed issues, Drupal 8.5.0 releases the Migrate system's architecture as fully stable

PHPUnit

PHPUnit

Get rid of simp letest.module in Drupal 9

Convert Web Test Base to Browser Test Base

Plan issue

Daniel Wehner, klausi, Claudiu Cristea, MattGlaman, Jibran, Larowlan, Naveenvalecha, Mile23, ...

PHPUnit

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API-First

Allow Drupal to be used in Headless, Progressively Decoupled, API-First Setups

• the same data is exposed by core REST + JSON API + GraphQL + RELAXed Web Services
• B) the pieces of data that should be normalized in the same way across all of the above, are normalized in the same way

Core Rest improvements + JSON-API + GraphQL

Prepare for React, Vue.js or other JavaScript Front-ends

Plan issue, List of missing APIs, Contenta

API-First

Plan issue, List of missing APIs, Contenta

Wim Leers, tedbow, dawehner, e0ipso, fubhy

API-First

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API-First

8.2.0 Platform features for web services

8.3.0 WebServices Improved

Layout

Layout

Contrib: Panels, Panels Everywhere, Page Manager, Panelizer, Mini panels, Display Suite, Context

Layouts plan issue, Add a Layout Builder to core plan issue

Layout

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Layout

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Layout

8.2.0 Experimental Place Block Module

8.3.0 Experimental Layout API

8.4.0 Layout Discovery API

8.5.0 New experimental Layout Builder Module

JavaScript modernization

JavaScript modernization

Developing and finalizing plans for modernization efforts
Create a JavaScript-based automated test suite for JS
Prepare Drupal to better support modern, JavaScript-rich UI
Improve JavaScript Developer Experience

Roadmap Trello Board, Google Doc Plan, Plan Issue

justafish, dawehner

Workflow

Workflow

Bring major improvements to Drupal’s content workflow, preview and staging capabilities.

Multiversion, Workspace, Replication,
Conflict, Deploy, Relaxed, Workbench Moderation

Plan issue, Drupal Deploy Website, Workspaces to core

dixon_, Josef Toth, timmillwood, jeqq, amateescu, skashd, agentrickard

Workflow

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Out of the Box

Out of the Box

Provide a fully-featured and beautifully designed example of what Drupal 8 can do out of the box.

A demo food magazine website called "Umami"

New Theme, Installation Profile, Default Content

Plan issue

kjay, markconroy, ckrina, smaz, laurii, thamas, mariohernandez

Out of the Box

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Out of the Box

8.5.0 new experimental demo profile and theme

Workflow uses Off Canvas

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How does it work?

Drupal Core Process

Semantic versioning

Scheduled releases

Experimental modules

Drupal Core Process

Core Committers (Product Managers, Release Managers)

Subsystem & Topic Maintainers

Initiative Coordinators

Coordination meetings & Sign-off processes

Drupal Core Process

Dries Buytaert (Drupal project lead)

determines the Drupal Core strategic initiatives

drupal.org/governance/core/initiatives

Drupal Core Governance

Drupal is a Do-ocracy / Meritocracy

4411 contributors as of March 18, 2018

Processes have evolved

Drupal Core Ideas Process

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What's coming up?

Outlook 8.6.0

Migrate

Support for multilingual sites

Stabilize the Migrate & Migrate UI modules

CSV Support 

Outlook 8.6.0

Media

Media Library

Bulk Upload Support

Remote Media

Outlook 8.6.0

Out-of-the-Box Experience

Layout Support

Media Support

Outlook 8.6.0

API-First

Add experimental JSON API module

Outlook 8.6.0

Workflow

Full-Site Previews (Workspaces)

Undo functionality - Trash module

Parent revision support

Conflict resolution

Outlook 8.6.0

Other active, community-driven initiatives

PHPUnit initiative

DateTime Module improvements

WCAG 2.1

How to get involved?

How to get involved

It's collaborative, its fun!

It can be challenging

You might get paid

You will definitely make friends & get karma

How to get involved

Dig into the plan issues on drupal.org

Join a sprint

Talk to the initiative leads

Join the initiative meetings

How to get involved

Everyone can help!

Work on what you are passionate about

Help can be done via

- code contributions

- reporting ideas & providing feedback

- UX/Design/Organizing/Funding/Dev work