Welcome Drupal 8

our journey

April 2014

amazeelabs.com in Drupal 8 Alpha

2 Languages

September 2014

drupal.com in Drupal 8 Beta

1 Language (yet)

January 2015

sgg-ssup.ch in Drupal 8 Beta
4 Languages

June 2015

gottardo2016.ch
Drupal 8 Beta - 5 Languages

Currently

Moar!

Why Drupal 7?

TL; DR;

It works!

It's great!

You have to be creative

Nobody want's go back to Drupal 7

Editors

We didn't tell them ;)

They really like the new layout

REAL Previews

Multilingual

Everything!

Translatable out of Core

29 Modules

Entity Translation

Let's meet the team!

1200+ People

How does it work?

Everybody can bring ideas

1 Initiative Lead

Gábor Hojtsy

Core commiters

Alex Bronstein (effulgentsia)

Jess (xjm)

Alex Pott (alexpott)

Nathaniel Catchpole (catch)

Jennifer Hodgdon (jhodgdon)

Angie Byron (webchick)

Dries Buytaert (Dries)

Sitebuilding

Feels right & complete

Block instances & Custom Block Library are confusing

A lot of contrib missing

be creative

Custom Block + Entity References
= 
Nodequeue!

Drupal 7 Sitebuilders pick it up in 2 hours

Configuration Management

The thing we've all waited for

it works!

but:

No help on how to use

• no workflow for dev > staging > prod

Merge CMI changes

really frustrating

let's fix!

use it

learn it

write about it

an example

"staging"

Backend

OOP all the way!

it's great

• Entity API
• Plugins
• Services

No IDE?

No Drupal 8.

No Debugger?
No Drupal 8.

Most examples found online are obsolete

drupal.org/project/examples

Non Drupal Developers

Can start work right away

Frontend

Twig <3

No need for
Contrib Base Theme

base themes from Core: 

classy, stable, none

Hidden Superpower:

Task

Remove the H1 on Frontpage

<div class="layout-container">

  <main class="layout-main" role="main">
    {{ messages }}
    {{ page.help }}
    <div class="layout-content">
      {{ page.highlighted }}

      {% block page_title %}
        {{ title_prefix }}
        {% if title %}
          <h1>{{ title }}</h1>
        {% endif %}
        {{ title_suffix }}
      {% endblock %}

      {{ tabs }}

      {{ page.content }}


    </div>{# /.layout-content #}

  </main>

</div>{# /.layout-container #}

page.html.twig

{% extends 'themes/sgg8/templates/page.html.twig' %}

{% block page_title %}
{% endblock %}

page--front.html.twig

Upgrades

before beta9:

hard

after beta9: 
Head2Head

drupal.org/project/head2head

• patches for each Head

• beta2beta

after beta15:
update.php in Core

RC Updates

almost nothing at all

Contrib

We're getting there

Drupal 8

Contrib Tracker

Fixing a module?

Contribute it back!

Migration

not done yet

marked "experimental"

easy migration

D7 Nodes -> D8 Nodes

200 lines custom code

Future

Semantic Versioning

8.0.0

8.0.1, 8.0.2, ...

Patch Releases

• bugs
• no new features
• every month

8.1.0, 8.2.0, ...

Minor Releases

• New Features & Improvements
• With Backwards compatibility
• Every 6 months

9.0.0

Major Release

• Removes Backwards compatibility
• not yet defined when

You should all start using it

• if its a new site
• or if only need to migrate some content
• if you don't need heavy contrib modules