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Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012
The first Midwest Drupal Developer Summit will be held Thursday, July 26 through Friday, July 27 this year in Madison, WI. The event is free with advanced registration and will be hosted on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The event will include:
- Sessions similar to DrupalCon core conversations.
- Code sprints on Drupal 8.
- Introduction to Drupal core development and mentoring for new Drupal core contributors.
Creating a Core Context Pool
The Scotch (Blocks & Layouts Everywhere) Initiative needs some people to start digging through: http://drupal.org/node/1547742
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Twin Cities Drupal Camp - D8 Theme Sprint
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is one of my favorites, I've signed up to attend and also will be organizing a Drupal 8 Theme Layer sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!). The specific times and location are still TBD but plan on an approximately 10 AM to 5 PM sprint.
Agenda:
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Drupal 7 core release Wednesday, May 2
As mentioned last month, the next release of Drupal 7 is scheduled for this Wednesday.
The final 7.13 patches have been committed so now is a wonderful time to update your dev servers to the latest 7.x code and help us catch any regressions!
Thanks!
Future of javascript in Drupal 8
In an effort to make JS performance and management better, I've made a few propositions about the way Drupal deals with javascript.
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Drupal 8 Theme System Sprint: Day 1
We are having a theme sprint and here is a summary of Day 1. Stay tuned for Day 2 and attributes. Lots of attributes.
Volunteers needed for new Kernel-based installer
I have done some work to start of rewriting the Drupal installer to be its own Symfony micro-app rather than a pile of workarounds upon hacks upon hacks. I do not have time to carry it forward, but this is a very important free-standing task to help clean up Drupal 8. It's also a great opportunity to learn more about Symfony, and become a Drupal hero for making the installer not suck. :-) It can also serve as an example for update.php and cron.php.
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Help out usability testing the Content creation page
Drupal 8 wants to provide a much-improved workflow for content creators. One of the most critical screens in this is the content creation page.
We have started to build a prototype of our plans at Implement the new create content page design, which is now ready to be usability tested. A step we think is vital for making big changes like these to Drupal Core.
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Entity property translation storage discussion
Plans for entity property translation storage are being discussed currently at http://drupal.org/node/1498634. This could be a noticeable piece in how you implement your entity modules and also how core handles property translation. While our current proposal leaves the regular entity tables (such as node and node_revisions) untouched, it does introduce two tables for storage of translations for current and historic values respectively. Your feedback would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Read moreWSCCI update and call for help
I have posted a status update for the WSCCI initiative, including specific places that additional hands are needed. If you want Drupal 8 to rock, don't wait, dive in now! We need help getting the kernel patch in place, as well as building toward step 2.
UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules
A user interface proposal for hierarchical permissions, a concept aimed to make it possible to have modules with hierarchically structured, accurately regulable permissions.
Configuration management initiative bi-weekly meeting
The configuration management initiative is really getting into gear! We had an enormously succesful DrupalCon and code sprint, and I want to see that momentum keep moving forward. To that end I am restarting our bi-weekly meetings, beginning this coming Tuesday, April 3rd. We will discuss the current issues, and how to address some of the issues we have been having. In particular we will probably discuss these topics:
- Reload process (http://drupal.org/node/1447686)
- Problems with encoding to XML (http://drupal.org/node/1470824)
New Drupal 7 release this Wednesday, March 28! [POSTPONED to May 2]
Following post-DrupalCon code sprint goodness, there will be a new release of Drupal 7 this Wednesday, following our standard monthly release schedule.
Site owners are encouraged to update to the latest -dev release on their dev/staging servers to help us catch any issues in advance. Thanks!
Read moreDrupal 8 Routing plans
A summary of the planned changes to the routing system, as discussed in Denver, has been posted in the WSCCI group. Includes, get this, a roadmap!
We'll be discussing it further at Tuesday's WSCCI status meeting.
Sprint: Rebuild theme layer for Drupal 8
A sprint to tear down and rebuild the theme system for D8 based on ideas based the ideas outlined below. We'll be gathering a few key people in San Francisco at the Chapter Three offices to formulate a plan and build a working example.
We invite everyone else who's interested in cleaning up Drupal's theme layer to please participate remotely, we'll be on IRC in the #drupal-themesprint channel from 10am Pacific onward each day, April 20th, 21st and 22nd.
1) John Albin's core conversation:
http://denver2012.drupal.org/content/re-thinking-rendertheme-layers
2) Jacine's blog:
Read moreFriday March 23 is Core mentoring day at DrupalCon Denver
Join us this Friday, March 23, for a core contribution mentoring sprint! Starting at 9:00a, we'll train participants in how to help with Drupal core, and from 10:00a or so on, we will spend the day working on issues in the Drupal core issue queue. Programmer or non-programmer, new contributor or Drupal rockstar--everyone is welcome and everyone can help.
Read moreDrupal 8 initiative happenings at DrupalCon!
There's always a LOT happening at DrupalCon between sessions, BoFs and sprints. Here's a round-up of what's happening in terms of Drupal 8 initiatives and DrupalCon! :D Join us!
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Drupal core test performance improvements
A first big milestone landed today:
#1373142: Use the Testing profile. Speed up testbot by 50%
All core tests are using the Testing installation profile now.
It improves the performance of Drupal core tests. Running all tests took 40+ minutes previously. Now it takes ~19 minutes.
These numbers only apply to Drupal 8, and only for testbots of drupal.org's testing infrastructure.
Read morePolicy discussion: Naming and granularity of config files
I have posted a discussion issue in the core queue to attempt to get some consensus around the following topics:
- How much information should be stored in each file?
- What is the naming convention for configuration files?
The issue is at http://drupal.org/node/1479492
Read moreWeb services and Layout initiaitives round-up
In mid-February, Acquia hosted a sprint for the Web Services initiative to try and get clarity on the initiative's goals, as well as how best to proceed.
Here's a round-up of posts coming out of the sprint, that talk about conclusions, as well as where Drupal 8 is headed:
- Dries Buytaert: The future is a RESTful Drupal
- Larry "Crell" Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI
- Daniel "sun" Kudwein: Drupal 8: The Path Forward
- Dries Buytaert: Layouts for Drupal 8
- Kris "EclipseGc" Vanderwater: Drupal 8: Blocks & Layouts Everywhere
The excitement from the community about these changes is palpable, but the folks leading these initiatives can't do it by themselves. Please help get involved if you want Drupal 8 to be the best release of Drupal ever!
