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!
Recent Content
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative sprint before/after DrupalCon Munich 2012, needs sponsors
We are just out of an incredible sprint at Drupal Dev Days Barcelona, but Drupalcon Munich is almost here, and there aint no stoppin' us now (soundtrack). The program includes a sprint day on the last day (August 24th, Friday), which we are extending to both 2 days at the end, and with sprinters also before the event as early as August 16th. We are not planning a strong sprinting presence on the Drupalcon session days. These extensions make up for the following sprint structure of three sprint days before and after Drupalcon session days:
- Pre-Drupalcon sprint: on the 18th to 20th of August, Saturday to Monday
- Drupalcon official sprint day: on the 24th of August, Friday
- Post-Drupalcon sprint days: on the 25th and 26th of August, Saturday and Sunday
Location for the Drupalcon sprint day is the Drupalcon venue, other days to be figured out. The same structure in graphical form is the following:
It is of course not obligatory to be available on all sprint days, we figured out a structure to welcome new sprinters every day on our previous sprint in Barcelona, and we'll work hard to have code to review and extend for you, even if you come later. If you need to leave early, that also should not be a problem. If you are only available in the first or second segments, that is still very useful. If you are only available remotely, please still sign up and indicate that on the sheet! We will be hanging out on the #drupal-i18n channel and work with remote sprinters too.
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Nobody should drop their keyboards until the sprint of course! There is plenty of work to do that you can help with from any of our top priority tasks in the meantime. If you need help picking from that list, let me know and I can help you personally. We hold initiative IRC meetings every two weeks with the next one coming up on June 20th.
Sponsors
Financial sponsors: comm-press, dotProjects.be, Open8.se, OSINet, Acquia.
Ticket sponsor: Evolving Web.
Sprinters: Amazee Labs, build2be, MD Systems, psegno.it, Wizzlern, Acquia and others.
Looking for sponsors
We are looking for more sponsors to cover expenses. If you are interested sponsoring or if you need sponsors to come, please contact me at http://drupal.org/user/4166/contact
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 20, 2012
We had a fantastic time just this past week in Barcelona sprinting on multilingual improvements for Drupal 8! Thanks all for coming either personally or to the IRC channel asking for tasks. We got lots of long lingering issues cleaned up and committed! Woo! The current top priority task board is not yet cleared of all the issues so we'll take a glare at all the things we done and figure out where we move next.
Let's keep up this amazing focus and get our tasks complete one by one. I made a 15 minute live demo of Drupal 8 as part of my Barcelona Drupal Dev Days session about the initiative and people loved our changes so far. I've heard compliments like "wow, the new interface translation UI now looks like something we can give to clients" and "oh, finally, I don't need to add 'another English', which I always do on my Drupal 7 sites". We have a great set of improvements in, but a long way to go!
There are still plenty of opportunities to help! Come to this meeting and ask for tasks. We can find tasks for all skill levels and interests!
The 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.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on June 6, 2012
We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on. Let's keep momentum on our active issues in property translation, config translation, gettext generalization, etc. Time is not on our side. There are still plenty of opportunities to help! Come to this meeting and ask for tasks. We can find tasks for all skill levels and interests!
The 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.
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D8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #10
Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, May 29. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Tuesday, May 29:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 23, 2012
We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on. Let's keep momentum on our active issues in property translation, config translation, gettext generalization, etc. We should keep going strong! There are still plenty of opportunities to help! Come to this meeting and ask for tasks. We can find tasks for all skill levels and interests!
The 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.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on May 9, 2012
We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on. Let's keep momentum on our active issues in property translation, config translation, gettext generalization, etc. We should keep going strong! There are still plenty of opportunities to help! Come to this meeting and ask for tasks. We can find tasks for all skill levels and interests!
The 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.
Read moreLooking for sponsors for Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative sprint
Are you and your customers going to enjoy all the great new multilingual features in Drupal 8 that some great people are working to build? We are organizing a whole week of sprinting in Barcelona in mid-June, and all our attendees are volunteers! Getting people to travel and find accommodation on their own dime as well as work the whole week to build these great things for Drupal 8 is a tall order. To help the sprinters out with some food costs as well as get them focus even more on the sprint tasks by taking care of some catering, I'm trying to contribute a little to get the attendees more comfortable at the sprint.
The sponsors we have so far either provide the space or send people, but I've had a pretty hard time to get sponsors for feeding the troops. If you can help, please don't hesitate, see the details at http://groups.drupal.org/node/221944
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #8
Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, May 3. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, May 3:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
Drupal 8 Web Services Funding Proposal
Introduction
There was a meeting last week between Crell, the Palantir team, webchick, and chrisstrahl to discuss the prospect of funding the WSCCI initiative. This meeting resulted in a funding proposal to resource this initiative through the Large Scale Drupal program and the Drupal community. This page and the attached documents are the results of the discussion. If you're interested in getting involved, please, contact me and I'll fill you in with further details of how to get involved.
Read moreDrupal 8 Configuration System Funding Proposal
Introduction
There was a meeting last week between heyrocker, webchick, and chrisstrahl to discuss the prospect of funding the CMI initiative. This meeting resulted in a funding proposal to resource this initiative through the Large Scale Drupal program and the Drupal community. This page and the attached documents are the results of the discussion. If you're interested in getting involved, please, contact me and I'll fill you in with further details of how to get involved.
Read moreInitiative Documentation
