Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life with Gábor Hojtsy.
Topics
- John – NEDCamp is in two weeks
- April – Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year
- Gábor – Thinking of all versions of Drupal
- Nic – Vacation was great – visited Salem
- What End of Life (EoL) means
- Statistics on number of sites
- Why D8 EoL is before D7
- What can people do to continue using D8
- Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the platform
- Improvements to the process
- Process expected for D9 and D10
- D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption
- Expected differences with D7 EoL
- Current Projects
- Contributions
- Next big thing
- Core committer experience over the years
- Initiative lead, lead
- Merge request support with gitlab
- Making core committer’s life easier
Resources
- New England Drupal Camp
- Old versions of Drupal
- FGM getting it working on newer php
- https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal
- Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 – 8
- Drupal Usage
- Drupal Upgrade Status
- Drupal 9 Deprecation
- Drupal 10 Deprecation
- Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net
- Multi-core compatibility
- Project Update Bot
- Lenient Composer Facade
- Talking Drupal #312 – DrupalPod
- Closure of the multilingual initiative
- (over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)
- Last page of commit history
- First contribution – contrib
- First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log –reverse –grep “Gabor” | less
commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000 – Added ‘escape HTML’ option to the filters. Patch by Gabor Hojtsy. commit 069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000 – More translation fixes for the menu items. Patch by Gabor. commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000 – Translation improvements for the block module help. Patch by Gabor. commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000 – Made sure non US-ASCII mails are sent out properly. Patch by Gabor. TODO: rename user_mail() to drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc. Other modules, such as the project module, should use this as well or they risk to send out /invalid/ mails. Guests
Gábor Hojtsy – www.hojtsy.hu @gaborhojtsy
Hosts
Nic Laflin – www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi – www.epam.com @johnpicozzi April Sides – @weekbeforenext
MOTW
Views AJAX History Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.
