Initiative

New Drupal 8 CSS Architecture

Restructuring the Drupal 8 CSS is the next big step that John has initiated. Through January there has been many discussions on the CSS Architecture at:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/277223 & http://drupal.org/node/1891580. The CSS policy is now Official at the Drupal Documentation pages and we can start implementing them along with John at: http://drupal.org/node/1921610.

Those at Sydney do not forget to join the code sprint at Sydney: http://sydney2013.drupal.org/program/code-sprint

John is having a Featured session at Sydney on CSS is for Clark Kent. Sass is for Superman.

This week's Mobile initiative meeting cancelled as John will be travelling to Sydney.

29 & #29.5

Links to videos, watch the recording of this weeks meetings:

29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0gHbZMF8BQk

29.5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wgVpUc7towk

Both meetings had good discussions around the CSS coding standards, John highlighted the pros of building a standard based on SMACSS. Did you miss the meeting, make sure you watch the discussions on the videos!

Amazing participation on the very first Eastern-Hemisphere-friendly Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative meeting, we had over 5 new participants. Look at seeing you all on issue queues and continued support for the mobile initiative.

Over 4 years ago, Alan Burke noticed that Drupal didn't have any CSS coding standards. He asked the documentation team lead at the time, Addison Berry, for advice and she suggested that if they wrote the first draft of the CSS coding standards, that would get the ball rolling on discussing them. The goal being to write, iterate and come to consensus on Drupal’s coding standards. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/14421 for the original discussion.

Unfortunately, its 4 years later and the CSS coding standards are still marked “Draft”. http://drupal.org/node/302199

Attendees:

John
bojhan
lewisnyman
nod_
svenryen
attiks
shyamala

I've been following Lewis' developments with the prototype and talked to some people about how to implement it and I think it's possible but to do it right will take a lot of work.

I would like to share my notes on this and make a suggestion to discuss pushstate-ajax (pjax) in Drupal, because as browser support is improving I think this will be the technology that allows websites (webapps) to catch up with native apps in terms of speed, responsiveness and scalability.

Background

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

The short story

Come and help us perfect and implement the hot new mobile interface design in Drupal 8. Try the prototype on your phone. Also, go to the issue queue.

The long story

Over the past six months we've been working on designing the experience of getting to where you want within Drupal's admin interface.

Sitting in at the Denver mobile sprint I spent some time coming up with a wireframe to explore how we could organize the create content page for small screens.

Background:

• Redesigning the create content page
• Design iterations for the content creation page

The general idea

• Content creation and editing screen consists of fields, settings and publish/save buttons.
• Show each field on its own line. One line for each field.