This group is an announcement list of major discussions and happenings in Drupal 8 initiatives, cross-posted from their dedicated groups and issue queues (listed below). If you only have time to read a single channel of info on Drupal 8, this is the one!
Content is along the lines of:
a) We think a decision has been reached, and here's the decision. Feedback?
b) We're trying to reach a decision, and we need help. Here's where to chime in to help us reach it.
c) General status reports about "Hey, if you've been busy for the past while, here's what's going on and what things you should know."
Unfortunately, this group needs to be kept invite-only in order to keep the content curated to only important announcements of general interest, but you are warmly encouraged to comment and participate on any discussions posted to this group!
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Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 29th, 2013
We are just back from a fantastic and extensive sprint at DrupalCon Portland! We got multilingual node properties in core now, have been improving the config translation module proposed for core in terms of usability and accessibility; and found important core bugs on the way. We also made menus use bundles which will enable us to add easy to use language settings on them shortly.
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. We still need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for other entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.
We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are moving back to a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining 5 weeks, starting from today, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting will be in Dublin and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 8th, 2013
Recently, we got locale integrated with the schema system, which is a huge win for us. Now people can translate shipped configuration (but not yet custom configuration). We also made strides in converting the config translation module proposed for core to latest routing and form standards. We need reviewers on that issue and support to get into core! We also recently got transliteration for machine names into core! The first UI exposure of transliterations!
Now we need people to help review making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language. We are also working to make menus multilingual in https://drupal.org/node/1966298 and https://drupal.org/node/1945226.
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there! This is the last meeting before DrupalCon Portland's huge onsite sprint!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on April 24th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there! There is only one more meeting before DrupalCon Portland's huge onsite sprint.
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
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D8 Q&A - Recap + watch the live broadcast!
Hey Dreeps,
We held our D8 live Q&A session today! Despite a few bumps in the road (google decided to mute everyone for a little while lol), it was a great success :)
Thanks to everyone who sent in questions, and to the IO's for answering them and giving their time so generously :)
Below is a recap of helpful timestamps to check out, a list of resources mentioned, and questions that were answered.
Please tell us if you liked this and would like more!
Best,
Shan
Watch the Q&A Session!
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on April 10th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreJoin us for a live Drupal 8 question & answer session on April 11th 10am EDT !
Recap + Q's + timestamps + resources noted here for you
LIVE BROADCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dIP8u2xYQps
Drupal 8 is the first development cycle introducing Drupal core initiatives, which are key focus areas for improving Drupal. Each core initiative is led by an individual or small team, and these initiative leads guide the efforts of other core contributors around their initiative. The initiatives are only a part of all Drupal 8 development, but most of the big Drupal 8 changes have been worked on by these initiative teams. (Read more about the core initiatives.)
Several of the initiative leads participated in a Drupal 8 question & answer session at DrupalCon Sydney and it went very well, so we want to repeat that experience by providing another opportunity to talk with the global Drupal community!
Goals of the session:
- Share the status, milestones, and next steps for each Drupal 8 initiative.
- Answer your questions: Want to know what’s going on, or how you can get involved? Now’s your chance to talk with us!
Update on D8 Mobile Initiative - #34 & #34.5
Link to videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=prolqP-vnlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=itQ_GeGJdVQ
Key take away from meeting #34 & #34.5
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 27th, 2013
We are working on some truly exciting things recently!
- Integrating the configuration system with community translation, so shipped configuration can be translated,
- making node properties multilingual, so you can translate titles, and maintain publication status/authors per language, as well as
- finally making good use of transliteration in core and
- providing an easy user interface for configuration translation (in contrib for now).
These are amazing things, and we have a lot to be proud of that we are here, however, we still want to build more on these patches. Migration paths, tools for localize.drupal.org, more transliteration integrations, and so on. So we are not close to done yet. We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreD8 Initiatives Updated!
Hi guys,
I spent a chunk of my sunday updating the initiatives for us, go check out the latest news post-feature freeze and all the top issues here:
http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core
Thanks to Ashleigh Thevenet and Shyamala for your help with these :)
Happy Monday!
Shannon
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 13th, 2013
This time Cathy (YesCT) Theys will lead the meeting to discuss ongoing issues in the multilingual initiative. Gábor is participating at a W3C event, and cannot attend. Be aware of timezone changes around your region as applicable!
We got some breakthroughs done recently. Nodes are now using the new entity field API (http://drupal.org/node/1818556) and we have a working implementation of a configuration translation user interface being explored at http://drupal.org/project/config_translation (as it stands now it will need to be a contributed module).
We need hands to help introduce, verify and fix configuration schemas and help test and continue the Entity API conversions as well as figure out node properties so titles and authors can become multilingual for example! We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome!
This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.
See you all there!
Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.
Read moreInitiative Documentation
