Recording from August 14th 2015 Drupal 8 critical issues discussion

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We met again today to discuss critical issues blocking Drupal 8's release (candidate). (See all prior recordings). Here is the recording of the meeting video and chat from today in the hope that it helps more than just those who were on the meeting:

If you also have significant time to work on critical issues in Drupal 8 and we did not include you, let me know as soon as possible.

The meeting log is as follows (all times are CEST real time at the meeting):


[11:07am] alexpott: https://www.drupal.org/node/2501931
[11:07am] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2501931 => Remove SafeMarkup::set in twig_render_template() and ThemeManager and FieldPluginBase:advancedRender [#2501931] => 117 comments, 34 IRC mentions
[11:08am] alexpott: https://www.drupal.org/node/2549943
[11:08am] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2549943 => [plan] Remove as much of the SafeMarkup class's methods as possible [#2549943] => 16 comments, 6 IRC mentions
[11:14am] plach: https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748
[11:14am] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748 => EntityDefinitionUpdateManager::applyUpdates() can fail when there's existing content, leaving the site's schema in an unpredictable state, so should not be called during update.php [#2542748] => 100 comments, 24 IRC mentions
[11:56am] catch: https://www.drupal.org/node/2551341
[11:56am] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2551341 => Update test database dump should be based on beta 12 and contain content [#2551341] => 0 comments, 1 IRC mention
[11:58am] jibran: https://www.drupal.org/node/2464427
[11:58am] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2464427 => Replace CacheablePluginInterface with CacheableDependencyInterface [#2464427] => 157 comments, 22 IRC mentions
[12:01pm] jibran: plach: is it bells time on the call? :P
[12:02pm] plach: jibran: yeah :)
[12:08pm] jibran: https://www.drupal.org/node/2349819
[12:08pm] Druplicon: https://www.drupal.org/node/2349819 => String field type doesn't consider empty string as empty value [#2349819] => 89 comments, 8 IRC mentions