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 April 25, 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, 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.
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D8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #7
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, April 12. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, April 12:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on April 11, 2012
We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on. We did not manage to keep the momentum we picked up in Denver and there are many issues lingering with big change proposals but lack of people working on them. We'll not reach far in Drupal 8 if we don't pick up these tasks again. We should keep going strong!
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative sprint before Drupal Developer Days Barcelona 2012
Drupal Developer Days is coming up fast in Europe. This year, the host city is Barcelona in Spain and dates are Friday, June 15, to Sunday, June 17, 2012. The programme includes sprints on Friday with sessions and a party on Saturday and more sessions on Sunday morning. There are many interesting sessions proposed, and more are welcome.
What best opportunity to couple with some multilingual sprinting as well! It is hard to find a place where people are as active about Drupal and as interested in multilingual issues at the same time as in this region of the world nowadays. In January I've proposed a pretty intensive sprint schedule for this year, which includes all weekdays sprinting before Drupal Dev Days Barcelona (Monday to Friday). So our sprint would be from June 11th (Mon) to June 15th (Fri), leading into the Drupal Dev Days conference. The location for the sprint is the same as the camp. Citilab, "a center for social and digital innovation in Cornella de Llobregat, Barcelona". Many of us are staying in the NH Cornella, but it is not a requirement to stay there. It would be practical to stay close.
When talking to people it turned out that might not be entirely realistic, but as usual, we strive on better data to make decisions, so I'd call every interested party to fill in this signup doodle and indicate their likely availability. Now this event is barely two months away, so it should be easier to tell your availability compared to January. Remember that your information helps determine the final dates for the sprint, so don't hesitate to provide your availability.
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 and even instead of attending the sprint. If you need help picking from that list, let me know and I can help you personally. Also, we hold initiative IRC meetings every two weeks with the next one coming up on April 11th. Watch this space for further announcements!
Sponsors
Finances: dotProjects.be, Cando Image, Open8, Acquia and Dave Reid
Sprinters: Amazee Labs, build2be, Wizzlern, Ymbra, Acquia and others.
Location: Citilab.
Logistics: Cambrico
Looking for sponsors
I'm looking for sponsors to help feed the troops. Think soft drinks, pastries, healthy snacks, lunch ordered in, etc. to help people keep going. If you are interested, please contact me at http://drupal.org/user/4166/contact
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #6
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, March 29. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, March 29:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
Do you think controlling wrapper markup in the UI would be a good idea for Drupal 8 core?
Some people believe that wrapper markup should be controlled via UI so that those configuring the site can choose the proper element to wrap blocks of content in, down to fields. This question is about Drupal core itself. Contrib has been and will continue to be able to solve this problem. See Display Suite, Views, Fences, etc.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 28, 2012
It is that time again! We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on.
We made some greta progress at Drupalcon Denver, especially with the extended sprint after the conference. However, a lot of things are only close to being done (committed) yet, and we should keep going!
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Drupal 8 HTML5 Initiative Meeting #22 At Drupalcon Denver and in IRC!
Please join us for our 22nd bi-weekly meeting. This will be a special in-person sprint to work on issues and progress related to the Drupal 8 HTML5 initiative. The meeting will be held at Drupalcon Denver, but you can also join #drupal-html5 via IRC to help out.
The sprint will run all day, starting from 9 AM MDT until 6 PM along with the rest of the Drupalcon sprints.
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Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative office hours
This Sunday, the Drupal 8 mobile initiative will be holding our third weekly office hours in IRC. The office hours will allow regular contributors to work together at the same time on the Initiative’s issues. And will allow new people to figure out how they can help too!
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on March 14, 2012
It is that time again! We'll review current top priority tasks and discuss new ones to work on.
We are setting ourselves in direction for the sprint at/after Drupalcon Denver. There are some very exciting patches close to being ready and/or landing like introducing some new special languages on the API level, so we can figure out how to expose them best on the UI at Drupalcon. Also made good progress on some interface translation patches that need a final push before Drupalcon, so we can build on their success and move forward. Fixing the ever present issue of no discovery support for singular/plural pairs and providing a UI for them is on the plate now as well as introducing customized string tracking.
I'd love to be able to work with you all at Drupalcon to solve even more user problems and move forward with our progress introducing language all around. Help and reviews on the current issues as well as any other issues is welcome!
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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