Drupal 8 Initiatives

We are just out of a fantastic Drupal 8 multilingual initiative sprint (or marathon as Dries called it). We sprinted the weekend before the con and we exceeded all expectations on Monday (running out of chairs, then floorspace then food for sprinters, huh!). Seven people out of 12 in the top two trivia teams were from the multilingual project! We contributed lots of the mentors on Friday (thanks to a large extent the inspiration of YesCT - for the benefit of Drupal :), but then we returned back to solving core problems on the weekend in full force. There was a strong set of people still sprinting in the weekend place on Sunday, see:

I'm really proud of what our team pulled off! Would you believe we are still not done? Well, yeah. With so many things to work on and so many moving parts, we still have lots to do. We made considerable progress. We removed the old node-copy translation module, we made several big ticket improvements to the configuration translation user interface (eg. index of all translatable things for people with limited permissions) and made strides in entity API improvements.

However, we still have stuff to do to get the entity property translation features we need (and get committed) as well as make the configuration translation solution land in core. Although we skipped the Wednesday of the conference for our meeting, we are back at our regular timeslot on October the 9th!

We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!

This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.

Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.

The next milestone for Drupal 8's life is a possible beta release hopefully not much later this year. For the beta release, issues to focus for the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative are:

• The configuration translation module that we are working on which has no hope whatsoever to get in once we are in betas (but no majors and criticals should be expected as followups or it will be rolled back)
• Issues related to the upgrade path (tag more with "upgrade path" + "sprint" as appropriate)
• Issues that need to make API changes in core (tag issues with "API change" + "sprint" as appropriate; the API should be relatively stable in beta releases)

We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels! All help is welcome!

This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.

Meetings are every other week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.

(Post meeting announcement, sorry for not posting earlier).

We had a great in-person meeting in our usual time slot! We also had the pleasure to join in some people over IRC but we did more in-person chatting (naturally). We also quickly ran out of time allowed in the building. While this meeting had more in-person value, see the IRC log for mentions of important issues we are working on and need help with.

Time is quickly closing on on the possibility for Drupal 8 API changes. Although we got some big things in recently, we still have lots to do in terms of content, taxonomy and menu translatability and configuration translation as well as translation updates. We need all hands available to finish multilingual properties for non-node entity types in core, improve accessibility, fix core bugs and get the configuration translation user interface in. We should also think about the missing Drupal 8 related features on localize.drupal.org at this point.

We have tasks for all kinds of interests on all kinds of difficulty levels. All help is welcome! We are moving back to a weekly meeting schedule for the remaining weeks until July 1st, so we can reevaluate our standing and focus our efforts best. Our last meeting on this schedule will be in Dublin and attempt to join in everyone remotely over IRC at a minimum for the meeting time.

This IRC meeting is in the #drupal-i18n channel on IRC. See http://drupal.org/irc for more information. The time above is marked with UTC - check in your own timezone.

Meetings are now every week at the same time on Wednesdays. Check out http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/events for the calendar of upcoming meetings.