Ottawa Drupalcamp 2024 Keynote: Chart Your Drupal Journey
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The document discusses the upcoming features and improvements in Drupal 11, highlighting enhancements for site owners, builders, and developers, including a new access policy API, performance improvements, and a user-friendly experience builder for content creators. It introduces the 'Drupal Starshot' initiative aimed at enabling users with little to no Drupal experience to build and launch sites quickly using guided recipes and automated updates. The article outlines the mission, progress, and upcoming collaborative work tracks needed to realize this vision, inviting community involvement in various forms.
Ottawa Drupalcamp 2024 Keynote: Chart Your Drupal Journey
- 3. Let’s Talk About Drupal In 2024
- 5. Drupal 11! …so what’s new?
- 6. ● Site owners and builders ○ Announcements Feed ○ Access Policy API ○ Field UI Updates ● Developers ○ DeprecationHelper Class ○ PHP Attributes > doctrine ○ Single Directory Components ○ Smaller core: ■ Actions UI, Book, and Statistics now contrib …and lots more! Drupal 11.0 vs. Drupal 10.0 ● Visitors ○ Performance Improvements ○ PHP 8.3 Support ● Content Editors ○ Workspaces (stable) ○ Bulk Operations UI ○ Taxonomy Revisions UI ○ Block Revisions UI ○ CKEditor Autoformat ○ Navigation (experimental)
- 7. …and a new system for “recipes” (more on that later) Recipes
- 16. What Brought You to Drupal?
- 17. First Drupal website was for a local nonprofit
- 18. Come for the code, stay for the community
- 19. Today, people want a website platform that is… ● Easy to try out ● Robust out-of-the-box ● Easy to maintain
- 23. What's preventing us from getting there? Significant experience required to pick and configure extensions Drupal core is slow to change Drupal core is targeted at developers Most sites need to use 20-30-50-100 extensions
- 24. What if there was something in the middle? Live Drupal site Drupal core only ● Product for ambitious site builders ● Additional default features ● Easier to add more features
- 25. Drupal Starshot Vision Site builders without Drupal experience can easily build and launch Open Source Drupal sites.
- 27. Focus areas 1. Installation. Improve discovery and installation experience of Drupal Starshot. 2. Configuration. Make building easier by guiding site builders to success with common best practices and state-of-art innovations. 3. Launch. Launch the website with ease.
- 29. May 6 Dec 31 239 Days
- 30. Drupal Starshot Mission Statement Drupal Starshot is a fast-moving open source product that enables site builders without Drupal experience to easily build and launch a new Drupal site and extend it with pre-packaged recipes, all using only their browser. Unlike Drupal Core, it will guide site builders to install recipes for common best practices and state-of-the-art innovations that are fast and easy to set up thanks to smart defaults and minimal steps. Drupal CMS will focus on getting people from install to launch really fast and bringing new people and contributors into Drupal and the Open Web.
- 31. Photo: https://www.pexels.com/@junior-teixeira-1064069 What is in Drupal Starshot?
- 33. Better name would be Drupal Package UI. The Package Manager component is key in installing composer packages on the UI. Creates a "Staging" copy of the site where composer changes are performed and only applied to live, if all went well. Automatic Updates itself are also key to lower the maintenance cost of sites. APIs allow to integrate with git / staging workflows or backups. Automatic Updates
- 34. Progress: ● Phase 1: Stable contrib module ✔ ● Phase 2: Move into core ○ Security Advisories display ✔ ○ Package Manager ○ Automatic Updates (core) Automatic Updates
- 35. Makes it easy to find projects that you may need by providing a UI. Installs projects on the UI with Package Manager. May introduce new quality metrics to help identify good projects. Contributes to making project information cleaner. Does not help in configuring modules or finding the right project for your use case. Project Browser
- 36. Progress: ● Revamp project categories ✔ ● Logos and metadata for top projects ✔ ● Drupal.org endpoint ✔✔✔ ● Functional contrib module ✔ ● Works with recipes ✔ ● Project detail view ● Make stable ● Get into core Project Browser
- 37. Automated site building steps that are applied to a site. New in Drupal 10.3! Can install modules, themes, import configuration and perform configuration actions. Does not have its own code or its own upgrades. Recipes Install profiles / distributions Recipes Lock-in ⚠* 💫 Inheritance ❌ 😍 Composability ❌ 😍
- 42. Lets talk about the unicorn config content composer.json recipes install config:import config:actions Anatomy of a recipe recipe.yml ● recipes ● install ● config:import ● config:actions {…}
- 43. Progress: ● Recipes support in core ✔ ● Install profiles now recipes ✔ ● Drush support for recipes ✔ ● Documentation ✔ ● Make API stable ● Build Starshot recipes ○ Blog ○ Events ○ Contact form ○ Data privacy ○ SEO ○ Multilingual Recipes
- 44. Easy page and theme building! Drupal’s new experience builder will enable site builders without Drupal experience to easily theme and build their entire website using their browser. It will enable content creators to compose content on any part of the page without relying on developers. Experience Builder
- 46. + Best of Layout Builder + Best of Paragraphs + In-browser theming + Single Directory Components = Experience Builder
- 47. Progress: ● New page builder ○ Create new component entity ✔ ○ Integrated with SDC ✔ ○ Working POC of front end ⇔ back end ✔ ○ Some interface elements built ✔ ● Theme builder ○ Defining vision Experience Builder Twig AND JSX!
- 49. We need to make a lot of decisions in the following 6 months. How do we organize the team and the work to succeed?
- 50. Guiding principles Decisions are openly communicated and published Fast and efficient decision making Prioritize the goals and target persona when making decisions
- 51. Lets talk about the unicorn Drupal Starshot Leadership Product Lead: Dries Buytaert Tech Lead: Tim Plunkett (Acquia) UX Lead: Cristina Chumillas (Lullabot) Product Owner: Pamela Barone (Technocrat) Community Coordinator: Gábor Hojtsy (Acquia)
- 53. Council Members ● 3 site builders ● 2 Drupal Certified Partners ● 2 Drupal core committers ● 3 Drupal Association Board members (Innovation, Marketing, Fundraising ● 2 Drupal Association Staff members
- 54. A CMS starting point Faster innovation cycles Better demos for all Easier to contribute to Clearer target personas More complete product will improve the experience for all Focus on Starshot modules + funding Consolidation of organization CMS Consolidation of contrib ecosystem Ambitious site builder focus Faster recipe adoption Easier hosting? What's in it for me?
- 55. the best of each of us Realizing the vision for Starshot will require
- 56. How to get involved today? Starshot initiative page: www.drupal.org/starshot – Sessions – Issues – Slack
- 57. 1. Update Drupal.org for Drupal Starshot 2. Starshot product marketing section 3. Drupal Starshot documentation 4. Recommend official recipes in the installation process 5. Create "Contact form" recipe 6. Create "Blog" recipe 7. Create "Events" recipe 8. Create "Data privacy / compliance (GDPR, CCPA, cookie consent)" recipe 9. Trial experience for Starshot 10. Create 'base' recipe with contrib modules and basic features Starshot Work Tracks
- 58. 11. Dashboard page for post installation and login 12. Proposal for Sitewide SEO recipe 13. Proposal for content publishing workflows 14. Proposal for advanced search 15. Proposal for media management 16. Proposal for accessibility tools 17. Proposal for multilingual content recipe 18. Proposal for analytics 19. Proposal for concurrent editing Starshot Work Tracks
- 59. Photo: https://www.pexels.com/@junior-teixeira-1064069 How can you help? ● Code ● Testing patches ● Issue summaries ● UX feedback ● Competitive intel ● Documentation ● Module logos ● Project management
- 63. My own evolution… ● Newbie ● Vocal in the forums ● Posting fixes ● Posting patches ● Maintaining modules ● Creating modules ● Occasional core contributor ● Starshot track lead
- 65. But also… ● Neophyte ● Advocate ● Mentor ● Speaker ● Event organizer ● Blogger ● Podcaster
- 66. Topics of interest ● Admin UX ● SEO and Performance ● Location and mapping ● Search (esp. Solr) ● Events (dates and times) ● Accelerated Site Building ● Artificial Intelligence
- 68. Follow Your Joy ● Work on things that interest you ○ It’s OK to change course ● Try out different ways of contributing ○ Do more of what you enjoy ○ It will likely change over time ○ Core vs Contrib ■ Core - more impact ■ Contrib - faster innovation ● Be respectful ● Assume good intent
- 69. Help is Here! ● Drupal slack ○ #contribute ○ #maintainers ○ #contribution-events ○ #starshot ● Issue queues ○ Core ○ Contrib modules ● More resources ○ Podcasts ○ Newsletters ○ Video training ○ Q&A sites
- 71. 99% of users Almost no one Core + many modules (DIY) More risk Mixed quality Higher TCO Low risk High quality Low TCO Core only
- 72. Photo: https://www.pexels.com/@junior-teixeira-1064069 An amazing opportunity to make a difference
- 73. Thank you!