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 meetings now happening each week
So far there were Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meetings every second week on Wednesdays from 4pm to 5pm UTC. Some people voiced concerns about the timing, either because it did not match their time availability or it was too early or too late in the day. Also, we only have 9 weeks left before feature freeze, and things are going to (or at least should) speed up. We should keep focused and don't miss opportunities to talk about something when critical features are at risk. We still have an impressive list of things to work through.
So we held a doodle vote and according to the majority vote I set up a Friday meeting time for the weeks not covered earlier. This means the following meeting times where you can find others on the initiative to talk to about things you are working on or need help with:
- Oct 5, Fri, 3pm UTC
- Oct 10, Wed, 4pm UTC
- Oct 19, Fri, 3pm UTC
- Oct 24, Wed, 4pm UTC
- Nov 2, Fri, 3pm UTC (on one of our BADCamp sprint days)
- Nov 7, Wed, 4pm UTC
- Nov 16, Fri, 3pm UTC
- Nov 21, Wed, 4pm UTC
- Nov 30, Fri, 3pm UTC (the very last day before feature freeze!)
After this we probably return to meetings every other weeks, we'll talk about it when we get there. Essentially the Wed meetings every other weeks at 4pm UTC are the ones we already had, and we interject Fri meetings on the other weeks at 3pm UTC. If you want reminders of these events, you can sign up to the Internationalization group's events (see group events block at http://groups.drupal.org/internationalization, ical feed available there). An overall calendar of Drupal 8 initiative meetings can be found in the calendar on the top of the http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core page which includes all these events as well as other Drupal 8 happenings.
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative sprint at and after BADCamp 2012!
The Drupal 8 feature freeze is on us! As of this writing, there are only 65 days to go, which is just a little over 9 weeks remaining before new features are not allowed anymore. In the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative, we have some pretty ambitious goals that involve big scale features, like general language support for the new configuration system, entity and property translation in core and much better automated interface translation management. We have been progressing pretty well, but have a lot to be done still.
BADCamp 2012 is coming up as a great opportunity to get some finishing touches on our big changes (not to postpone our current work further!). If you can make it to BADCamp, this would be a great opportunity to do a final run at the remaining pieces. So we are planning to use the BADCamp facilities to sprint throughout the event and then extend for two more days to focus on sprinting only at a nearby location (co-located with other sprints). That means I would lead a sprint from the 2nd to the 6th of November. My personal availability on the 3rd and 4th is dependent on session and booth obligations as well, although those should be the exception, not the rule.
Remember, if you need financial help, scholarship applications are open until October 1st, so make sure to apply as soon as possible (and let me know as well if you did). Everybody contributing can be eligible for a scholarship (although no guarantees)!
Read moreScheduling additional Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meetings
Currently there are Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meetings every second week on Wednesdays from 4pm to 5pm UTC. Some people voiced concerns about the timing, either because it did not match their time availability or it was too early or too late in the day. Also, we barely have 10 weeks left before feature freeze, and things are going to (or at least should) speed up. We should keep focused and don't miss opportunities to talk about something when critical features are at risk. We still have an impressive list of things to work through.
So I'm proposing we try to set up a different meeting time (or the same meeting time if people so prefer) for the weeks not covered yet, so essentially the upcoming 10 weeks, we would have a meeting time for every week. I'd keep the existing Wednesday time for every other week (Sept 26th, Oct 10th, etc), so let's pick another time for the even weeks.
I set up a doodle to gather community opinon. Please fill in by the next meeting on the 26th, where we'll see and pick the time. The new meeting time would go effective the first week of October and then alternate with the existing Wed 4pm UTC time each week. Of course none of the existing meetings are mandatory for anyone, so if you think yet another meeting is useless, just ignore this (or read the meeting notes, IRC chatlogs are always posted shortly after the meeting).
Read moreDrupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on September 26th, 2012
There are some very exciting issues on our current top priority task board, including a translation workflow for all configuration installations (and possibly updates), a nicely working entity translation user interface and other important things for both content and configuration translation. All of those are in dire need of reviews and input, so if you can spare some time to look at those, it would be great.
If you need help picking from the list or have questions, our regular Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting is coming again on the 26th of September. On this meeting, we'll review the ongoing tasks and see what we can do to get more of them in core sooner than later. Nobody wants to work on rerolling patches all the time, so let's get them done soon!
At the time of the meeting, we'll only have 66 days left (just 9.5 weeks) until code freeze! Keep moving!
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!
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Drupal 8 Core Development - 9/11/12 Edition
The D8 core page was updated today, and more updates will be coming throughout the week. Today's update was for Multilingual and Layouts... more to come!
That page will tell you:
- what D8 Initiative owners and contributors are up to
- the most important places you can help right now
- thank yous to special snowflakes who have helped
- general information and links for each initiative
- short term and long term schedule notions
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative meeting on September 12th, 2012
The the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative sprint in Munich was fantastic. It was amazing to see so many people together. Thanks to our sponsors who helped make it happen!
We worked through most of the issues from Munich, but there are still some on our current top priority task board, and of course we started on some new interesting pieces. I've recently rolled out some improvements to help group related issues together, marking the 4 big parts of the initiative on the issue board, floating up important issues to the top. Let's work through these because we need to get to some interesting work sooner than later.
On this meeting, we'll review the ongoing tasks and see what we can do to get more of them in core sooner than later. Nobody wants to work on rerolling patches all the time, so let's get them done soon!
We only have 81 days (2 months and 20 days) until code freeze. Keep moving!
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!
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D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #23
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 6.
Tuesday, November 6:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #22
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 30.
Tuesday, October 30:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #21
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 23.
Tuesday, October 23:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #20
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 16.
Tuesday, October 16:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
Initiative Documentation
