I've finally recovered from BADCamp, where we had a short but productive code sprint on Friday. A number of new people got involved, which is awesome. Even more awesome, the Symfony2 HttpFoundation patch got into core earlier this week(!).
If you saw my Core Conversation session at DrupalCon London, nothing really changed for my sprint session this time around. :-)
Stuff happening:
- Chris Christensen and pdrakweb spent some time on the internals of the context API, where there's still some subtle bugs to suss out.
- Andrew Berry and Adam Ross started looking deeper into Symfony's session handling, which is included in HttpFoundation. It looks like there's an open feature request in Symfony2 to make their session-based messaging system more powerful, like drupal_set_message(), which if it happened would mean we could fully leverage Symfony's session handling. They've started putting together code for that. Keep at it, guys! Let's not let this get away from us.
- Bill Miller started working on writeups for how we could go as far as WebSocket support. There was some confusion early on, but hopefully with that sorted out we can work out how Durpal 8 can have native support for WebSockets. The use of a 3rd party library here as well is definitely a possibility.
- Although he was remote, I spoke with Francesco Placella (plach) about language support. This will be a bit tricky, as Symfony2 and Drupal currently use different formats for language identifier strings. Arguably Drupal's is closer to the HTML/W3C spec, while Symfony2's is closer to the Unix spec. We're talking to the Symfony folks about how to standardize on a common format here. For now we're just working around it in the HTTP Handler.
(If anyone else was working on stuff that I forgot to mention, I apologize! Please comment below.)
We're also nearly done with the HTTP Handler; it just needs some documentation improvements. Once that's done, I'll be identifying the next set of issues to work on and asking for volunteers. If you're already working on one of the issues above, please keep doing so! It's going to take all of us to make this work.