WHO'S IN IT!

a.k.a., the gits you can blame

AUTHORS

• marcoscano (subsystem maintainer)
• seanB (also a subsystem maintainer)
• chr.fritsch (also also a subsystem maintainer)
• samuel.mortenson, sometimes
• slashrsm (unseen presence)
• and ME! (me, me, me...also a subsystem maintainer)

COMMITTERS

• Gábor
• xjm
• Alex Pott
• webchick (sometimes, for UI stuff)

GOALS!

• Build a solid API for handling media in Drupal DONE!
• Support local images and other file types DONE!
• Support remote media, mainly videos DONE!
• Build a nice user-facing library for reusing media DONE!
• Let users create new media, local (done!) or remote, from node forms
• Let users embed media into WYSIWYG content
• Add Media to Standard, replacing File and Image modules

WHY WE'RE SO AWESOME

8.4: Stable Media module lands!!! =D

...with no UI

8.5: Media module declared safe for public consumption!!!

...but it has a sad-bastard UI that makes kittens weep

8.6: Experimental media library lands!!!

...with a gorgeous UI!

Also 8.6: oEmbed support lands!!!

...and it fucking works with YouTube out of the box!

TIMELINE!

8.7: WYSIWYG integration

• Top priority
• Blocker for Media being included in Standard
• Currently Wim and me
• Can maybe get an input filter into core by Christmas
• Hopefully a CKEditor widget/interface in Q1
• Barcelona sprint focus

also 8.7: Add YouTube videos to media library on a node form

• Currently authored by me
• Patch exists, needs review from UX, product managers, and coders
• New feature in an experimental module
• No API changes
• Continuous review = could land by Christmas

8.8: Replace File and Image

• Still no clear plan of action
• A migration path is needed, but what kind?
• How can we deprecate File and Image in 8.8?
• Some UX questions to resolve, because configuring media is relatively complicated
• Until we at least answer these questions, Media cannot be in Standard

RISKS!

this is the part that sucks

• Migration path may be delayed/blocked without WYSIWYG support
• ...which has some technical unknowns (is Entity Embed stable enough for core?)
• ...and no real designs/mockups
• Not enough brainpower (can we just clone Sam)?
• UX resourcing is a bit sketchy
• There are UX/a11y blockers to "Standard-ready" Media, and no clear resourcing to fix them
• Content Moderation support is a nest of invisible dragons

OPPORTUNITIES!

• Barcelona sprint in Dec. should advance 8.7 goals considerably
• seanB can contract with us in 2019
• DrupalCon will be post-8.7, so sprint/solidify migration plan there?

REQUESTS!

• Contract with Sean in Q1
• Create a coherent plan for UX/a11y blockers
• Create a plan for Content Moderation support
• Get continuous review on external media patch for Media library
• Onboard a new developer to learn the code and supplement the "old guard"
• How 'bout hiring an a11y expert into OctoDAT?
• Continue to give us money and send us places