d8

We will hold windsprints (mini sprints) each week on IRC in #drupal (on irc.freenode.net).

Timezone conversion: Friday, 17:00 to 19:00 UTC

Objectives

• Bring lessons learned from core mentoring hours to Drupal 8 Core Initiatives.
• Provide a structured time where anyone can contribute to core initiatives.
• Leverage an army of potential contributors who don't know where to start.

The Plan

Today I posted the first work-in-progress patch of the file-based configuration system to the core queue. This contains the new API, changes to the installer to support the system, and implementations of a basic system settings form and the image styles subsystem. I urge everyone with an interest in this project to go review the patch and become familiar with the system. The time for comments is NOW! The patch is at

http://drupal.org/node/1270608#comment-5442300

Notes:

You’ll hear the words “MVP” thrown around a lot in the update this week. It stands for “Minimum Viable Product”, and it’s a way for us to define what “success” means for each initiative. More to come on this later :)

Also, our next meeting isn’t until Dec 8th, so you won’t see an update over the Thanksgiving holidays because a bunch of us are enjoying turkey.

Configuration Management

Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)

Status Amber

Headlines

• Ongoing discussions coming out of BADCamp
• Working on defining the project

One of the key aspects of solving the configuration management conundrum is identifying how to uniquely identify data between servers. To this end I propose implementing UUIDs in core for the identification of content, and to provide an API through which UUIDs can be generated and added use by contrib modules. While we are still talking through many big picture architectural issues, I think that it is possible to get moving on this and several other tasks to get the real work started. So here is my proposed game plan for this, created after some discussion with Dave Hall (skwashd) who has put a lot of work recently into porting the UUID module to D7.