Config Management Initiative

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Configuration Management Initiative

This page collects content for those interested in being involved in the Configuration Management Initiative for Drupal 8. Hopefully this page will be able to provide a high level status of the various activities surrounding the initiative including

  • Highlighted Discussions - Open discussions on architecture issues or high-level interesting topics
  • Detailed Plans - Game plan proposals with more implementation details
  • Associated Issues - Issues from d.o related to parts of the initiative

In the future I can see this as a place where, for instance, we might tag issues and/or discussions with a particular sprint for tracking purposes and the like. All work is going to be done in the core sandbox project for the initiative. Right now this is pretty dead. There is a branch for UUID support but work has not begun yet. If you are interested, please provide feedback on the game plan listed below!

This page is a work in progress. If you have any feedback on it, or if there is any information you think would be useful to add, please let us know.

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gdd's picture

Configuration management initiative bi-weekly meeting

Start: 
2012-06-26 12:00 - 13:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

Yes its time for another configuration management initiative weekly meeting. Come hear about all our meetings from Drupal Dev Days in Barcelona! The meeting happens at 12:00 PDT, in #drupal-cmi on Freenode.

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Example module using config management

Hi all,

After reading this blog post on the new config management initiative for D8, I thought an example module demonstrating a very simple use case, and a simple upgrade path from D7, use be of use.

I submitted it as a patch to the Examples for developers module, as well as a stand-alone zipped module, at http://drupal.org/node/1615520

(To use the upgrade path, install block_example for D7, then upgrade it for D8).

Cheers,

Albert.

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gdd's picture

Configuration management initiative bi-weekly meeting

Start: 
2012-05-29 12:00 - 13:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

Hey everyone! It's that time again! Lets gather around the campfire and discuss what is up with the configuration management initiative! Specifically I'd like to get more discussion around some architecture cleanup discussion we've been having (http://drupal.org/node/1560060) and also report the results of a long conversation we had this week about internationalization. Anything else to talk about? Let me know!

The meeting will be held in #drupal-cmi on freenode.

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gdd's picture

Configuration management initiative bi-weekly meeting

Start: 
2012-05-01 12:00 - 13:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hey everyone! It's that time again! Lets gather around the campfire and discuss what is up with the configuration management initiative! Some topic suggestions:

If you have any other thoughts, bring them along or post below. As always, this will happen in #drupal-cmi on Freenode. Thanks all!

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gdd's picture

Configuration management initiative bi-weekly meeting

Start: 
2012-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

It's time for another bi-weekly IRC meeting. One thing I would like to focus on in this meeting is the reload process, in particular the questions about how much we should be tracking changes to local environments and responding to that when configuration is reloaded. For more information on this issue, please read the following issues

Reload process (http://drupal.org/node/1447686)
Add a flag to the active store to track differences from canonical storage (http://drupal.org/node/1515312)

See you there.

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Configuration Management initiative and Drupal distributions

What considerations need to be addressed to ensure the Configuration Management Initiative is informed by and reflects the needs of Drupal distributions?

The Configuration Management Initiative tackles problems that are distinct from but overlap with what's done in Drupal 7 with the Features module, the tool of choice for producing distributions. Features allows capturing bundles of configuration and deploying them in a form that can be reproduced on multiple sites.

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gdd's picture

CMI IRC Meeting

Start: 
2012-01-24 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

It's for another "bi-weekly" IRC meeting! I've been trying to get these going more frequently but it has been really difficult as I've started planning my move and the like.

The meeting will take place in the #drupal-cmi channel on Freenode at 20.00 UTC.

Here are some agenda items for this meeting:

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Configuration management architecture

This document DOES NOT represent the current state of the configuration management system for Drupal 8. No attempt has been made to keep this document as up to date as possible.

STRONGLY ADVISE NOT USING THIS DOCUMENT -- Unless you are looking for history on D8 early development.

By the same token, any link you followed to reach this document is also out of date and should be corrected to point elsewhere.

[NOTE: Before the update that added this note, the page was last updated 2012-01-23. The page is by no means up to date.]

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gdd's picture

Configuration Management Initiative - Bi-weekly IRC meeting

Start: 
2011-11-15 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

After a month of chaos, I am returning to holding the bi-weekly IRC meetings for the configuration management initiative. These meetings are held in the #drupal-cmi channel on Freenode. For more information about getting on IRC please see

http://drupal.org/irc

Some topics for discussion

  • Overview of and followup on discussions about Internationalization
  • Overview of and followup on discussions from BADCamp about handling configuration updates
  • Status report

If you have any other topics to discuss, please leave them in the comments.

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gdd's picture

Bi-weekly IRC meeting

Start: 
2011-10-04 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Organizers: 
gdd
Event type: 
User group meeting

This is the bi-weekly meeting for the configuration management initiatives. Here is this meeting's agenda:

  • Review of progress made at DrupalCamp Copenhagen
  • Discussion of early bootstrap issues (http://drupal.org/node/1288142)
  • Discussion of better encode()/decode() options. I would love for someone to take the lead on this research (http://drupal.org/node/1288090)
  • Anything else people want to talk about

Thanks, and see you there.

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