Posted by svettes on September 22, 2011 at 1:53pm
What this is about:
We've been hearing a lot from the community about wanting more transparency with regard to the Drupal 8 initiatives and their advancement. Every two weeks, the Drupal 8 initiative owners, along with Dries, webchick, and a team of project managers have “scrum of scrum” calls where each person goes around and talks about what they worked on since last time, what they’re going to work on for next time, where they’re blocked, and how the community can help.
So we're trying out this format for sharing these meeting minutes with you, and allowing a place for you to comment on and participate in these initiatives.
How you can get involved:
- Share your comments
- Contact an initiative leader to take on one of their action points!
Configuration Management
Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)
Status: Green
Headlines
- Sandbox code now reflects conversations that have happened since the initial summary.
Next steps
- Get some weekly or bi-weekly IRC convos going to get people involved. These will be every two weeks on Tuesdays at 19:00 UTC, starting on September 20.
- Speaking on 3 or 4 camps ( Copenhagen, pacific northwest Drupal summit, badcamp, do it with Drupal) in the next month, get some sprints planned to increase momentum. The first one will be in Copenhagen on Friday, September 23rd at the Nodeone offices.
- Review associated patches around entities and wscci.
Call to Action
- Need community to review the code and issues in the sandbox
- Get involved in the discussions.
Web Services
Larry Garfield (Crell)
Status: Green
Headlines
- Submitted Symfony2 HttpFoundation patch: http://drupal.org/node/1178246
- Held another IRC meeting, discussing architecture: http://groups.drupal.org/node/175544
Next steps
- As soon as we get HttpFoundation available to us in the WSCCI sandbox (either through the core patch or just put it in ourselves), we need to write a context handler for it. That will let us build a lot of additional context items atop it. This is a semi-blocker: http://drupal.org/node/1279942
- There's some important context core engine details being sorted out here: http://drupal.org/node/1261156#comment-4983832
Call to action
- Review/provide feedback on the UX issues: http://groups.drupal.org/node/160144
- Review code that people are submitting. (Please!)
Design
Jeff Burnz (jmburnz)
Status
Amber
Headlines
- Summer was slow; lots of people on vacation and some personal stuff.
- Ramping up and next week things will be rolling.
- After talks with Neil Drumm at DrupalCon, going to move design site from design.drupal.org to Drupal.org.
Next steps
- Make public statement of progress on the Drupal 8 initiatives group.
- Get Drupal.org testing site up and running.
- Figure out timing/scheduling of this initiative relative to HTML 5, Snowman, etc.
- Collaborate with Jacine on unifying accessibility and markup improvements under the same umbrella
Call to action
- Start fixing HTML 5 issues! http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status%5B%5D=Open&issue_t...
Multilingual
Gábor Hojtsy
Status
Green
Headlines
- New and Improved: D8MI video and slides available http://groups.drupal.org/node/173569
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Sprinting in Montreal!
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Group of people working on UX issues (http://drupal.org/node/1260690)
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People working on documentation
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Big group of people working on Entity translation module issues, core API work, etc. It’s exciting!
- For example, we are hard at work to design how the initial screen would look for Drupal 8 in the installer:
Next steps
- Document as much as possible of our discussions so others can join in from the community
- Follow up on active issues; the initial install screen issue is getting good discussion there!
- Help drive more of the API changes in
Call to Action
- Review/provide feedback on the UX issues: http://drupal.org/node/1260690
- Work on the API issues: http://drupal.org/node/1260488
- Work on entity system, http://drupal.org/node/1269842 and followups
HTML 5
Jacine Luisi (jacine)
Status
Green
Headlines
- Activity is slowing down, we're not sure why
- Discussed the Modernizr going into core, CSS clean up
- Trying to collaborate more with the accessibility team
- Backported all the theme related issues that have been committed to the HTML5 project.
- Tracking community participation (yay!)
Next steps
- Write update for community on the last 4 months, status & next steps
- Try to get feedback about Modernizr + core, talk to Matt Farina, Katherine Senzee and Alex Bronstein about this.
- Try to identify community leaders who are interested in tackling some issues.
Calls to action
- Get feedback on including Modernizr (feature detection library) in core. HTML5 & JS experts please chime in here!
- Help is needed to update documentation for: Making your theme semantically correct
- Check out the Drupal 8 Markup Gates: http://groups.drupal.org/node/160254
PM Team
Angie Byron, Shannon Vettes, Melissa Anderson
Status
Green
Headlines
- Lots of people feelings lost as to overall status of D8 initiatives
- Working on reporting format for the community
Next steps
- Plan to discuss: dependencies, scheduling/deadlines, criteria for must-haves
Action items
- Post this report! :)