Drupal 8Part 2. 13-May-2014

Brisbane meetupVladimir Roudakovtechnocrat.com.au

Drupal 8

● Status

● Migration

● Module update

● What’s next?

Update on Drupal 8

Update on Drupal 8Where is Drupal 8 at?

- fixed over 130 beta-blocking issues,

- including 9 in the last week

- written more than 70 missing change records.

- 28 beta blockers (some difficult issues)

Update on Drupal 8Lots of work in the configuration system

- - addition of a separate module install/uninstall step

- - Minimal > Standard installation profile by importing config

- - http://www.screencast.com/t/NXI1Xu5VQ3

- - active storage for the configuration management system has been moved

into the database by default

Time to TEST!

Update on Drupal 83rd annual NYC Camp

- - 30 Drupal 8 API functions you should already know

http://www.nyccamp.org/session/30-drupal-8-api-functions-you-should-already-know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrCa7r4x40

Getting ready for D8- Start giving your administrators a taste of D8 now- Start giving your developers a taste of D8 now- Prune your structures- Inventory and remediate contributed modules- Remove code hacks- Review your theme- Carve out some budget

http://www.acquia.com/blog/getting-your-site-ready-drupal-8

Migrate in CoreImport API in Drupal 8 core, based on the Migrate project.- - https://drupal.org/project/migrate

- - flexible framework for migrating content into Drupal from other sources

- - core Drupal objects such as nodes, users, files, terms, and comments

- - can easily be extended for migrating other kinds of content

- - Migrate UI module

- - Drush

Migrate in CoreDrupal 6 and 7 import using this API based on the Drupal-to-Drupal data migration project

- - https://drupal.org/project/migrate_d2d

- - provides a framework based on the Migrate API for migrating content from Drupal 5, 6, or 7

Migrate in Core

Migrate in CoreCurrent Priorities- D6 > D8- - Finish the remaining tests (intermediate skill)- D7 > D8- - Variable to config migrations for D7

Migrate API documentation- - https://drupal.org/node/2127611

Migrate in Core: how to helpIRC: #drupal-migrate

DrupalCon Austin "Migrate in Core" test sprint

Beta updates- Drupal 8 beta approaching => almost time to test- 600KB patch containing 82 actual migrations ready for review.- - https://drupal.org/node/2121299

Links● IMP group on Drupal.org

https://groups.drupal.org/imp

● Drupal 8 Migrate in Core catch up (IMP)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnKgk6bztLg

● Migrating from Drupal 6 or 7 to Drupal 8 https://drupal.org/upgrade/migrate

● Writing Custom Process Plugins using the Drupal 8 Migrate API

http://codedrop.com.au/blog/writing-custom-process-plugins-using-drupal-8-migrate-api

Drupal 8: what do you want to see?Next topics:

● REST Services >> NEXT >> July

● Development: Symfony

● Drush

● HTML5

● Translation

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