Boston Drupal Meetup - November 1st, 2016 @ 6:30pm - Special Location

We'll be experimenting with streaming and recording November's meetup. I'll post the Bluejeans meeting invite here around 6 PM on Tuesday. If you're interested in attending remotely you can also PM me and I will send you the meeting invite information.

The Typogrify module is ready for an alpha release for Drupal 8. I have been working on the D8 port with Jason Pamental, who is now a co-maintainer of the module. I hope to give a brief demo at the meeting.

https://www.drupal.org/project/typogrify

Thanks for coming out to the November meetup and thank you Pegasystems for hosting! Here are a few notes that recap what was discussed.

Lighting Talks

Rainforest Alliance Project - Kelly A. from Last Call Media

• Project that needed to be done by the end of September - 6 two weeks sprints in drupal 8
• www.rainforest-alliance.org
• No time/budget for dedicated backlog, so coached them how to manage their own backlog (worked with them on their own user stories)
• Agile accepts the fact that planning isn’t perfect, but they forecasted 6 sprints out to make sure the project was feasible for D8 and the project parameters
• Things in any given sprint might affect a later sprint in a cascading manner
• Agile: don’t always have a plan, but always be planning
• Once backlog was met, did exercise with note cards, wrote down epics
• See 12 weeks in the future called forecasting based on each cell (each cell is notecard epic)
• Buildup chart – measure against real delivery schedule
• Sprint can get full / Pre-sprint grooming / sprint planning
• Would redo sprint planning once they started working
• Build up chart - gullies are indicative of a new build
• Project used pagemanager to allow content editors to control placement
• Used pattern library (which spreads bugs across the whole site), can shake client confidence
• Product owner has to set expectations at a reasonable level and manage the inevitable missed deliverable

Ajay - Question

• Started with Drupal 4 and now migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7
• Blog in Drupal 6, trying to migrate to D7
• Relies heavily on Organic Groups
• Content is migrated, but access permissions are completely ignored (anonymous users can see everything)
• Access permissions work if you create the content on the new D7 site
• Access is not tied to the actual content

Lisa / Rob / Giles / Moshe - mass.gov

• In proprietary CMS called percussion currently and moving to Drupal 8
• Pattern lab (named Mayflower after the state flower)
• The pattern lab can be used on Drupal or other platforms
• mass.gov/mayflower/
• Action pages have not been finished yet
• The site is being shown at Code For America (where most of the team is currently)
• Feedback form - using atom displace created an organism
• Goal is to roll out the same look and feel for the main site and the sub sites
• Rolling out the main site to “friends & family” to test it out and get feedback
• Goal will be the migrate in the next few months
• Right now there are 10 tasks that have been written and ready to be public (based on user journeys, for high traffic pages)
• Used data from the old site to see why people were going to the mass.gov site and picked the top 20 tasks
• Parks are a huge piece
• Some icons are being developed custom
• Overview, fees, and eligibility are all paragraph types to give users a consistent experience
• How do you wire up pattern lab static instance to Drupal? They are working with a vendor that builds the pattern lab. They take the build outputs and inputs them manually into the twig templates
• Hosted by Acquia
• Mass plans to open source their pattern lab
• Just finished 6 two week sprints and are working with two external vendors (1 design and 1 backend drupal dev)
• Mass is actively doing a content audit
• Paragraphs is being used to create “relaxed structure” or “guardrails” to give content editors control but keep them within the style guide

Anoop John - Drupal IT

• Works at a Drupal company based in India (about 80 people, one of the larger Drupal firms in India)
• Considers himself a developer. He’s a techie that kept growing a business. Lot’s of Drupal companies out there are started by techies
• There’s about a trillion $ worth of IT services out there (30% of websites are on a CMS, about 5% are on Drupal)
• $7 billion dollar drupal industry
• One of the big challenges in the Drupal space is the size and scale of the operations
• Lot’s of contributions to the project are driven by passionate business owners
• Lot’s of large opportunities are going to the largest vendors – that could be bad for the ecosystem
• 1.5 million individuals come out of college with an engineering degree in India
• India is becoming the leader in IT services (like China is to manufacturing)

Benji - Typography

• Joined Isovera a couple months ago
• Working closely with Jason Pamental on typography
• Module called typogrify
• Demo of input filter: non-breaking spaces, quote styles, and ligatures

JIm Fisk - Twitter

• Style the twitter block module by injecting javascript into the iframe using a library called waitUntilExists: https://gist.github.com/vishaltelangre/6727962
• No longer have to use a timeout function which can either delay the style from being added or miss completely on slow page loads
• Twitter no longer supports IDs, and favors embed
• Library was just added globally to libraries.yml

Rob - CMI

• CMI import causes users to lose their roles
• Roles still exist, but are removed from users
• Drush command and config_installer could fix UUID’s because there is a discrepancy between local and production

Other News

Cast vote for when the meetup should take place after BioRaft Drupal Nights merge with Boston Drupal meetup: http://bit.ly/BDGvote

Hacking sessions?

• Training could take place before or after?
• ”How to do a thang” - short training, informal

BadCamp videos are up!