November 2, 2021
Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life and much more with Gábor Hojtsy.
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Topics:
- John - NEDCamp is in two weeks
- April - Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year
- Gábor - Thinking of all versions of Drupal
- Nic - Vacation was great - visited Salem
- What End of Life (EoL) means
- Statistics on number of sites
- Why D8 EoL is before D7
- What can people do to continue using D8
- Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the platform
- Improvements to the process
- Process expected for D9 and D10
- D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption
- Expected differences with D7 EoL
- Current Projects
- Contributions
- Next big thing
- Core committer experience over the years
- Initiative lead, lead
- Merge request support with gitlab
- Making core committer’s life easier
Resources:
- New England Drupal Camp
- Old versions of Drupal
- FGM getting it working on newer php
- https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal
- Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 - 8
- Drupal Usage
- Drupal Upgrade Status
- Drupal 9 Deprecation
- Drupal 10 Deprecation
- Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net
- Multi-core compatibility
- Project Update Bot
- Lenient Composer Facade
- Talking Drupal #312 - DrupalPod
- Closure of the multilingual initiative
- (over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)
- Last page of commit history
- First contribution - contrib
- First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log --reverse --grep “Gabor” | less
commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date: Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000
- Added 'escape HTML' option to the filters. Patch by Gabor Hojtsy.
commit 069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date: Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000
- More translation fixes for the menu items. Patch by Gabor.
commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date: Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000
- Translation improvements for the block module help. Patch by Gabor.
commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date: Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000
- Made sure non US-ASCII mails are sent out properly. Patch by Gabor.
TODO: rename user_mail() to drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc.
Other modules, such as the project module, should use this as well
or they risk to send out /invalid/ mails.
Module of the Week:
Views AJAX History
Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.
