Drupal is Changing, Quickly: How and Why
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The presentation by Ted Bowman at Acquia outlines the rapid changes in Drupal, specifically focusing on core development cycles, version release schedules, and new features from Drupal 8 onwards. It highlights the importance of staying updated on major releases and the implications for developers and site owners. Additionally, there's a discussion on the anticipated transition to Drupal 9 and its compatibility with existing modules.
Drupal is Changing, Quickly: How and Why
- 1. 1 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Ted Bowman Software Engineer – Office of CTO, Acquia Drupal is Changing, Quickly How and Why
- 2. 2 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Who am I? • Ted Bowman • Acquia’s OCTO • @tedbow
- 3. 3 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary What I do • Core developer: Decoupled & UX • Maintainer of Settings Tray (experimental core module) • Working on core REST module
- 4. 4 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Who are you? • Developer/Themer? • Site/Business owner? • New to Drupal? • New to Drupal 8?
- 5. 5 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Let’s talk about Drupal core development cycles
- 6. 6 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Please, don’t leave!
- 7. 7 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Let’s talk about why Drupal core development cycles matter to you
- 8. 8 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Big changes since Drupal 7
- 9. 9 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary • Release schedule • Supported Versions • New Features • Whats up with Drupal 9?
- 10. 10 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Drupal core changes: • Determine when you need to think about major updates • How you select contrib modules(not addressed????) • Supported Versions??? • ???Affect long term cost of Drupal site
- 11. 11 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Release schedule: Before Drupal 8
- 12. 12 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Months from previous version 8 13 25 49 Drupal 4 ➡️ 5 Drupal5 ➡️ 6 Drupal 6 ➡️ 7 Drupal 7 ➡️ 8
- 13. 13 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Months from previous version 8 13 25 49 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 Drupal 4 ➡️ 5 Drupal 5 ➡️ 6 Drupal 6 ➡️ 7 Drupal 7 ➡️ 8
- 14. 14 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Release schedule: Pre Drupal 8
- 15. 15 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary No guarantees Ready when it’s ready.
- 16. 16 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary and then……
- 17. 17 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Contrib module waiting game
- 18. 18 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary
- 19. 19 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary
- 20. 20 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Why does this matter? 8 13 25 49 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 Drupal 4 ➡️ 5 Drupal 5 ➡️ 6 Drupal 6 ➡️ 7 Drupal 7 ➡️ 8
- 21. 21 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary The web moves fast. Drupal was moving slow
- 22. 22 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Release schedule: Post Drupal 8
- 23. 23 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Scheduled Releases!
- 24. 24 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Releases every 6 months
- 25. 25 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary We are doing this now! • 8.0.0: November 19, 2015 • 8.1.0: April 20, 2016 • 8.2.0: October 5, 2016 • 8.3.0: April 5, 2017
- 26. 26 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Current Versions 7.54 8.3.1?
- 27. 27 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Semantic Versioning • Software Release Numbering System • “semver” • Deals with Public API
- 28. 28 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Major . Minor . Patch BC changes Features without BC changes Bug fixes 8 . 3 . 1
- 29. 29 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Every 6 months 8.0.0 8.1.0 8.2.0
- 30. 30 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary 8.0.0 8.1.0 8.2.0 8.0.1 8.0.x 8.1.1 8.1.x 8.2.1
- 31. 31 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary 8.0.0 8.1.0 8.2.0 8.0.1 8.0.x 8.1.1 8.1.x 8.2.1 Minor Patch Patch Minor Patch Patch Minor Patch
- 32. 32 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Minor release Quality assurance time 8.3.x RCBeta
- 33. 33 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary For example 8.3.0 • 8.3.0 Alpha1 - February 1, 2017 • 8.3.0 Beta1 - February 22, 2017 • 8.3.0 RC1 - March 1, 2017 • 8.3.0 - April 5, 2017
- 34. 34 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary 8.0.0 8.1.0 8.2.0 8.0.1 8.0.x 8.1.1 8.1.x 8.2.1 Support Versions
- 35. 35 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Are running 8.1.10?
- 36. 36 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Upgrade now! oh no!!!!!!!
- 37. 37 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Update Now!
- 38. 38 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary I’ll wait….
- 39. 39 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New Core Features!
- 40. 40 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New features? •Exciting! •Scary!
- 41. 41 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New Features: Before Drupal 8
- 42. 42 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New features == Major Releases (mostly)
- 43. 43 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Drupal 6 added • Drag and Drop interface • Update status module
- 44. 44 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Drupal 7 added • Custom Fields • Overlay • Image Styles
- 45. 45 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Drupal 8 added • Views • Content & Configuration Translation • Configuration Management • New Fields: Link, Date, Telephone, Entity reference • CkEditor • RESTful Web Services
- 46. 46 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New features? • New bugs? • New security holes?
- 47. 47 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary New Features Drupal 8
- 48. 48 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Experimental Modules
- 49. 49 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Alpha Beta RC Stable Experimental modules are not yet stable
- 50. 50 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Alpha Beta RC Stable Removed Experimental module can be removed Contrib?
- 51. 51 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Alpha Migrate UI Stable! Inline Form Errors Place Block Settings Tray Content Moderation BigPipe Beta Migrate
- 52. 52 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Experimental! • Not stable! • Don’t run in production!
- 53. 53 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary But really can I run in production?
- 54. 54 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary
- 55. 55 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Have an idea?
- 56. 56 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary
- 57. 57 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary I have an idea! Idea PrototypePlan drupal.org/project/ideas
- 58. 58 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Example ideas • Media initiative: Essentials • Out of The Box experience initiative • Remove Ban module from core • Pathauto in Core
- 59. 59 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary I have an idea! Idea PrototypePlan Approved Build Success drupal.org/project/ideas drupal.org/project/drupal
- 60. 60 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Why ideas & not code? • Get buy in from maintainers & committers • Plan before implementation • Focus on UX • ….?
- 61. 61 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Support new features • Help with existing experimental modules • UX testing/planning of ideas • Promote: blog posts & tutorials • Sponsor: sprints & developers
- 62. 62 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary How can I help?
- 63. 63 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary What about Drupal 9?
- 64. 64 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Drupal 9 • 8.x deprecated code removed • Almost identical to last 8.x.x
- 65. 65 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary What’s that mean? • Modules compatible with Drupal 8 & 9 • No complete site rebuilds • Don’t wait for Drupal 9(skip 8)
- 66. 66 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Other possibilities? • Compatible with Drupal 9 Badges? • Modules tested on Drupal 9 pre- release? • Automated compatibility testing? • drush upgrade-test -core=9
- 67. 67 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Contrib module waiting game
- 68. 68 ©2016 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Questions?