Talking Drupal #480 - Ripple Makers

December 16, 2024

Today we are talking about The Ripple Makers program, How it benefits Drupal Association members, and Why it’s important to Drupal with guest Julia Kranzthor. We’ll also cover Migrate Boost as our module of the week.

Listen:

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Topics

  • What is Ripple Makers
    • Taxes
  • Why did the Drupal Association (DA) membership program need overhauling
  • Are DA individual memberships different than Ripple Makers
  • Do people have to sign up if they are already a DA member
  • Coming up with the benefits
  • Where did the name come from
  • Does this have new benefits
  • What has the impact been

Resources

Module of the Week

Migrate Boost
  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to disable hooks to accelerate your Drupal migration? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Sep 2023 by our own Nic Laflin
    • Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained
    • Security coverage
    • Documentation README / project page have instructions
    • Number of open issues: none!
  • Usage stats:
    • 119 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • Having hooks fire during a migration can significantly slow down the process, and what’s worse, it can also cause some significant problems, for example sending email notifications every time a node is created
    • You disable hooks by defining an array in your settings.php file, either an array of specific hooks you want to disable, or an array of modules for which you want to disable all hooks
    • This was a capability available for the Drupal 7 Migrate module, but hasn’t been available in the Migrate API in Drupal core since version 8, so this module can be invaluable if you’re working on a sizable migration
    • Hopefully there are a lot of folks working on migrations ahead of the January 5 EOL for Drupal 7, so I thought this module would be timely