Workflow Initiative Update
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The document outlines a workflow initiative led by Dick Olsson, focusing on content moderation and workflow improvements within Drupal. It details the phases of development, challenges faced, and lessons learned, as well as the goals for future enhancements. Key topics include revision management, usability issues, and the benefits of funded core development.
Workflow Initiative Update
- 1. Workο¬ow Initiative Dick Olsson | @dickolsson | dixon_ #DrupalDeploy
- 2. Agenda β’ Background & goals β’ Plan overview β’ Lessons learned β’ More details β’ Q & A #DrupalDeploy
- 3. Funded team β’ Tim Millwood β timmillwood β’ Andrei Mateescu β amateescu β’ Andrei Jechiu β jeqq β’ Jozef Toth β jojototh β’ Dick Olsson β dixon_ #DrupalDeploy
- 6. Background & goals β’ Core conversations since Denver 2012 β’ The ο¬rst approved initiative after 8.0.0 β’ Efο¬cient and accurate content workο¬ows β’ For content editors β’ By enabling moderation and full-site preview #DrupalDeploy
- 10. Phase A β’ https://drupal.org/node/2725433 β’ Using the revision API for more entities β’ Lots of work on underlying APIs, upgrade path,β¨ βEditorialContentEntityBaseβ etc. β’ Fixed β’ Almost ο¬xed ;) #DrupalDeploy
- 11. Phase B β’ https://drupal.org/node/2786133 β’ Make every revision have a parent β’ Revision trees, branches and conο¬ict management β’ Postponed β’ Only required by phase H #DrupalDeploy
- 12. Phase C β’ https://drupal.org/node/2755073 β’ Content Moderation and Workο¬ow modules β’ Uncovering lots of limitations with revisions β’ Fixed β’ Stable in 8.4 #DrupalDeploy
- 13. Phase E β’ https://drupal.org/node/2786135 β’ Trash module and undo functionality β’ Usability challenges β’ Needs work β’ Release target TBD #DrupalDeploy
- 14. Phase G β’ https://drupal.org/node/2732071β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2732081 β’ Full-site preview with Workspace module β’ Bold new mental model β’ Needs work β’ Targeting 8.4 for MVP #DrupalDeploy
- 15. Phase H β’ https://drupal.org/node/2867707 β’ Conο¬ict management of parallel changes β’ Lots of UI complexity β’ Not started #DrupalDeploy
- 16. Story summary #DrupalDeploy Make revisions of all content Moderate content package Undo deletionβ¨ of any content Preview content package Collaborate with othersβ content packages
- 17. Progress summary β’ Phase A β’ Phase B β’ Phase C β’ Phase Dβ© β’ Phase E β’ Phase F β’ Phase G β’ Phase H #DrupalDeploy
- 18. Progress summary β’ Phase A β’ Phase B β’ Phase Cβ© β’ Phase E β’ Phase G β’ Phase H #DrupalDeploy
- 20. Lessons learned ⒠Hard to do experimental modules that needs⨠deep integration with Drupal ⒠Surfacing existing bugs with stable code ⒠Dependencies during the experimental timeline ⒠We still rely on very few core framework committers #DrupalDeploy
- 21. Funding core development works! #DrupalDeploy
- 23. Important Content Moderation issues β’ Workο¬ows on entities without bundles:β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2843083 β’ Forward revision bugs:β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2766957β¨ https://drupal.org/node/1239558 β’ Entity form save button:β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2068063β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2753717 #DrupalDeploy
- 26. Who are workspaces for? Content editor Moderate content package Publish content package Collaborate with othersβ content packages Siteβ¨ builder Configure workflows Configure moderation states #DrupalDeploy
- 31. Workspace roadmap β’ Experimental workspace module:β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2732071 β’ Full workspace UI:β¨ https://drupal.org/node/2732081 #DrupalDeploy
- 32. Q & A Dick Olsson | @dickolsson | dixon_ #DrupalDeploy
- 33. Thank you! Rate this session: https://events.drupal.org/node/17136 #DrupalDeploy