Drupal 8

Drupal 8 lightning talk at PHPSW meetup, April 2015.

Transcript

1. ¡
   Drupal 8
   PHPSW - April 2015
   By /
   Oliver Davies @opdavies
   

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2. Who?
   Drupal Developer and Linux Systems Administrator
   Work for
   Core contributor and contrib maintainer
   Drupal Bristol, SWDUG, DrupalCamp Bristol
   Drupal Association
   

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3. What is Drupal?
   Drupal is a free software package that allows you to
   easily organize, manage and publish your content,
   with an endless variety of customization.
   https://www.drupal.org/about
   

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4. Where are we now?
   

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5. Drupal 6
   Released in February 2008
   1 year of development
   Supported for 3 months after Drupal 8 release
   

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6. Drupal 7
   Released in January 2011
   ~3 years of development
   Supported until Drupal 9 release
   

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7. Drupal 8
   In active development
   Beta 1 released October 2014
   55 51 critical issues remaining
   Hopefully released in 2015 (Q3?)
   

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8. Some cool things about D8
   

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9. Culture Change
   " "
   Not invented here -> Proudly found elsewhere
   Getting off the island
   

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10. For Site Builders
    in core
    Revamped node forms
    WYSIWYG (CKEditor) in core
    Inline editing (quickedit)
    More fields!
    Entity reference
    Telephone
    Email
    Date
    Link
    More accessibility improvements
    Multilingual
    Configuration management
    Views module
    

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11. For Developers
    Leveraging of Symfony components
    Higher PHP requirement
    PHPUnit
    Rest API in core
    Less assumptions made
    Simpler, more re-usable code
    

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12. For Themers
    Twig
    Modernizr in core
    Newer jQuery (2.1.3)
    HTML5
    SMACSS
    Responsive everything
    No more IE8 support
    

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13. Other Good Stuff
    Introduction of semantic versioning
    Cross-community contribution
    Widens the Drupal talent pool
    

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14. When?
    It will be ready when it's ready, but it will be worth the wait!
    

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15. Questions?
    http://opdavies.github.io/phpsw-drupal8
    https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0
    

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