Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about Progressive migration with Drupal, What it is, and how you can do it with your organization with guest Stephen Cross. We’ll also cover Views JSON Source as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/466

• What is a progressive migration
• What other types of migration are there
• What problem does progressive migration solve at the ATF
• What versions of Drupal are involved
• Technical implementation
• Technical challenges
• Non-Technical challenges
• Processes needed for success
• When to use another migration process

• Drupal GovCon Presentation - Progressive Migration
• Talking Drupal #334 - Managing Drupal Teams in Government

Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Nate Dentzau - dentzau.com nathandentzau

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use Drupal’s Views interface to allow visitors to browse and navigate data from another source? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Views JSON Source
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2020 by Pradeep Venugopal (venugopp), but recent releases are by Viktor Holovachek (astonvictor), a member of the Ukraine Drupal community
  • Versions available: 2.0.2 compatible with Drupal 8.8 and newer, all the way up to Drupal 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation: pretty lengthy README to help you get started
  • Number of open issues: 17 open issues, 4 of which are bugs against the current branch, although one had a fixed merged in the past week
• Usage stats:
  • 1,641 sites
• Module features and usage
  • After installing the module, you can create a view and specify it should show “JSON” instead of some kind of content entity
  • In the view settings you can then provide a URL for where to retrieve the JSON, and an optional Apath value to indicate a section of the data to show
  • It also supports contextual filters, so you can create a single view that will show different sections of data depending on the path used to access it
  • From there you can build out your view in the normal way: using fields to specify what data should be shown and how, filters to limit which rows will be shown, and sort criteria to specify the order in which it will be listed. And of course, the ability to expose controls for users to filter and sort the data in ways that meet their own needs make this an extremely powerful way to make data available to your site’s visitors
  • We spoke a couple of episodes ago about how powerful it can be to use Drupal as the “glass” or experience layer through which visitors can interact with other systems, and I think this is another great example of that

Today we are talking about The Greater Cleveland RTA, How they use Drupal, and how they built a Drupal team with guests Mike Cermak & Rithya Lath. We’ll also cover Geofield Directions as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/465

• What does the Greater Cleveland RTA do
• Is the RTA a state agency
• What kind of Digital Service do you provide
• How does the GCRTA use Drupal
• Whay was Drupal selected
• Let's talk about the team
• How long has the team existed and how many people
• What type of skill makeup doest hte team have
• Local development and deployment
• Point and click learning, how do you keep up to speed now
• Day to day responsibilities
• Drupal con and Starshot

• Greater Cleveland RTA

Rithya Lath - ral1239 Mike Cermak - riderta.com MikeCermak

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to make it easy for visitors to your Drupal site to get directions to a location via Google Maps? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Geofield Directions
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2021 by Christopher Martin (ccjjmartin), though recent releases are by Allan Chappell (generalredneck)
  • Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal ^8.8 ^9 || ^10 ^11
• Maintainership
  • Minimally maintained, Maintenance fixes only
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation? Not even a README
  • Number of open issues: 1 open issue, not a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 26 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module provides a new field formatter, so you can install it and then update a view mode to use Geofield Directions. Now your content display will include a link to get directions
  • You can figure the text of the link, whether the link should open in a new tab, the magnification of the destination map, and more
  • The module also includes token support, so you can dynamically include things like the name of the location in the link text
  • I think the only downside I can see is that because this is implemented as a formatter, you have to choose the directions link OR a map, where I could foresee sites wanting to show both

Today we are talking about Producing content with Drupal, How Drupal can help content producers, and ways it could be better with guest Jerry Ta. We’ll also cover Stage File Proxy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/464

• Brief overview of Urban Institute using Drupal
• What are the day to day responsibilities of a content producer
• Layout Builder or Paragraphs
  • What is your opinion
• You've been in content production for almost 2 decades, what was your first website editing tool.
• How long have you been using Drupal
• What is your number one wish the Drupal community would solve
• Drupalcon
  • What value do you look for for a content producer
• What is the hardest part of using Drupal
• Starshot reaction
• Predictions for Drupal in 5 years for content producers

• Modules for replacing files on Drupal - , Media Entity File Replace, etc.
  • File Replace
  • Media Entity File Replace
  • File Field Replace
• Content Sync
• Tokens with CKEditor module
• Shortcode
• Common Spot
• Scheduled transitions
• Experience builder
  • https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C072JMEPUS1
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/experience_builder
• Starshot
  • https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C072BF486FN
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/starshot

Jerry Ta - joshmiller

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Josh Miller - joshmiller

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to work on code or configuration changes to your Drupal site in a non-production environment, without having to copy over all the images and other content files? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Stage File Proxy
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2011 by netaustin, by recent releases are by Stephen Mustgrave, who listeners will probably recognize from the Needs Review initiative, among his many other Drupal contributions
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.10, 3.0.0-alpha2, and 3.1.0, the last of which works with Drupal 10.3 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - not a lot, but it has been the subject of numerous blog posts over the years
  • Number of open issues: 15 open issues, 2 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 16,710 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Once you have Stage File Proxy site up on your non-production site, when the environment gets a request for a content file it doesn’t have like an image, it will query the production site to create a local copy
  • It also has a mode where those requests are served 301 redirects to their location on the production server, so no files are ever copied
  • Once you have the module installed, you can set the origin website URL using the admin UI, using a drush variable-set command, or you can add a line to your settings.php file.
  • Also, if you have simple HTTP authentication set up on the site you want to pull from (for example using the Shield module), you can add URL-encoded versions of the username and password to the origin URL, and the module will still be able to copy down the files.
  • This module was previously covered in this podcast way back in episode #33, but I thought it was worth bring back because it is so useful for working on site locally or across non-production environments

Today we are talking about DIY Site Builders, what are the benefits over Drupal (If Any), and When using Drupal makes sense with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Drupal 11 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/463

• What is a DIY site builder
• Does TEN7 use DIY site builders
• How are DIY site builders better than Drupal
• Are they less expensive than Drupal
• HAve you ever suggested a site builder to a client
• What does a migration from a site builder look like
• Do you think starshot will make Drupal competitive with site builders

• Workspaces Extra
• Talking Drupal 451 - Just say Drupal
• Shopify
• Webflow
• Wix
• Squarespace
• Wordpress vip
• Cosmic.build
• Preshow:
  • Eurion constellation

Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Josh Miller - joshmiller

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you been wanting a version of Drupal that can use Workspaces, Recipes, and Single Directory Components, while running all the latest versions of its underlying technologies? Drupal 11 is all of that and more
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal 11
• Brief history
  • How old: created on Aug 2 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
• Module features and usage
  • Limited additions vs 10.3: by design to make the transition easier
    • Mostly in the recipes API, e.g. new config actions
  • Recap of new features vs. 10.0
    • Workspaces
    • Revisions and workflow are possible in the UI for Blocks and Taxonomy Terms
    • UI updates for creating and reusing fields, as well as bulk content operations
    • New Access Policy API and Single Directory Components
    • New Navigation and Announcements Feed modules
  • Contrib support out of the gate: about ⅔ of the top 200 modules already support Drupal 11
    • Adding modules that Rector estimates will only need info.yml or automated fixes brings us to over 80% of the top 200, or about 75% of all Drupal 10-compatible projects on Drupal.org
  • Updated dependencies: PHP 8.3, Symfony 7, CKEditor 5 42.0,2, Twig 3.9, Yarn 4, jQuery 4.0.0-beta, jQuery UI 1.14-beta.2 and more
  • Modules moved to contrib (smaller core):
    • Actions UI
    • Activity Tracker
    • Book
    • Forum
    • Statistics
    • Tour
  • Drupal 10 will receive maintenance support until mid-2026, so the community created this release of Drupal 11 early to give sites as much time as possible to make the transition, in this case almost 2 years!

Today we are talking about DrupalCon Singapore, What you can expect, and What’s next for Drupal in Asia with guest Mike Richardson & Surabhi Gokte. We’ll also cover Filefield Paths as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/462

• When is Drupalcon Asia
• The last one was in 2016, what did it take to reprise
• How do you handle language barriers
• What are your roles in the organizing committee
• Steering committee and Drupal South
• What can attendees expect
• Any special programming
• What kind of diversity is expected from attendees
• Driving from Mumbai to Singapore is 110 hours
• Will Dries be there
• Can we expect future Drupalcon Asia's
• Planning and logistics regarding coffee
• Starshot

• DrupalCon Singapore
• Droptimes
• Drupal camp Pune
• Steering committee for Drupal South
• Linux Australia Council
• DrupalCon Singapore Sponsorship
  • Email [email protected]
• Park Royal Collection Marina Bay
• Singapore Wiki
• Singapore Visa

Mike Richardson - Singapore DrupalCon richo_au Surabhi Gokte - surabhi-gokte

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Josh Miller - joshmiller

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use a variety of tokens to customize the directory and file names of your uploaded files? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • File (Field) Paths
• Brief history
  • How old: created in July 2008 by Stuart Clark (Deciphered), though recent releases are by Oleh Vehera (voleger) of Golems GABB
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.2 and 8.x-1.0-beta7, the latter of which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, and Drupal 10
• Maintainership
  • Seeking co-maintainers
  • Security Coverage
    • Opted in, but no coverage in practice for Drupal 9 or 10
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 131 open issues, 50 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 34,609 sites almost 35,000 sites
• Module features and usage
  • This module allows you to customize file names and paths by leveraging a variety of entity-based tokens
  • It also integrates with the Pathauto module, giving you options to clean up the tokens for example by removing slashes, filtering out words or punctuation, and so on
  • It can also work with the Transliteration module to convert unicode characters into US-ASCII
  • Filefield Paths has options to rename and move existing files, and can retroactively rename files, effectively bulk updating and moving all your existing files
  • It can also work with the Redirect module to automatically create redirects from the old path and filename to the new location, when renaming
  • I’d also like to give a tip of the cap to Jim Birch of Kanopi for suggesting this module, when I was talking to a customer who was looking to achieve pretty much exactly what this module does

Today we are talking about The Benefits of Distributions, If they have drawbacks, and what the future of distributions looks like with guest Rajab Natshah and Mohammed Razem. We’ll also cover Google Analytics Reports as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/461

• What is a distribution
• How does this differ from profiles
• What does Varbase provide
• What types of users is Varbase geared towards
• Paragraphs or Layout Builder
• Vardoc
• How do you overcome fear of lock-in
• What do you think the future of distributions look like considering recipes
• Any plans to move Varbase to recipes
• Starshot

• Varbase Distribution
• Vardoc
• Google analytics counter
• United nations refugee agency
• George washington university
• City of Detroit
• Bootstrap Layout Builder
• Bootstrap Styles
• Visual Distribution Operator
• Profile inheritance issue
• Starshot work tracks
• Linux from Scratch

Rajab Natshah - rajab-natshah Mohammed Razem - mohammed-j-razem

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Josh Miller - joshmiller

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to display Google Analytics charts directly within your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Google Analytics Reports
• Brief history
  • Created in Apr 2011 by raspberryman, but recent releases are by today’s guest Rajab Natshah
  • Versions available include 7.x-3.2, 8.x-3.2, and 4.0.0, that last two of which support Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, recent releases were less than a month ago
  • Security coverage
  • A documentation guide for older versions, and a README with detailed instructions to get it set up
  • Number of open issues: 76 open issues, 9 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 4,272 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To set up this module, you first need to set up the API connection in the Google Developers Console, and download the client secret JSON
  • You’ll then upload that into the Google Analytics Report API submodule along with the property ID to enable the connection
  • Next, you need to install the Charts module, and either the Google Charts or Highcharts sub-module to see graphical reports
  • You will now have a new Google Analytics Summary in your site’s reports menu, and new "Google Analytics Reports Summary Block" and "Google Analytics Reports Page Block" blocks available
  • I haven’t had a chance to try the 4.0 version of this module yet, but I have used older versions with a variety of dashboard solutions, including Moderation Dashboard and Homebox
  • One of the many benefits of using a powerful, open source framework like Drupal to build your site is its ability to act as the “glass” for a variety of other systems, and this module is a perfect demonstration of that

Today we are talking about Preconfigured CMS Solutions, How they can help your business, and The best way to build them in Drupal with guests Baddy Sonja Breidert and Dr. Christoph Breidert.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/460

• Spain
• What is a Preconfigured CMS / Drupal Solution
• Who is the audience
• What business objectives can preconfigured solutions solve
• What are the ingredients
• How do you manage theming
• How do you manage customized design
• What do you do if your client has a need that your preconfigured solution does not solve
• What about Starshot
• Did the two of you meet over Drupal
• How do you manage work life balance

• TRY drupal
• Design system
• Front end editing

Christoph Breidert - 1xINTERNET breidert

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to customize the way Google Maps appear on your Drupal site? There's a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Styled Google Map
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2014 by iampuma, but recent releases are by Artem Dmitriiev (a.dmitriiev) of 1xINTERNET
  • Versions available: 7.x-2.0, 8.x-1.7, and 8.x-2.6 versions available, the last of which works with Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release a week ago
  • Security coverage
  • Has a Documentation page and lots of information on the project page
  • Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 1 of which is a bug against the current branch, though it was actually fixed in the latest release
• Usage stats:
  • 1,764 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module provides allows your Drupal to use custom styles, which you can copy and paste from SnazzyMaps.com, or create from scratch using a configuration widget on Github that is linked from the project page
  • You will be able to use custom markers by using the System Stream Wrapper module
  • You can also specify popups for the markers, using a field or a view mode
  • If you use the companion styled_google_views module, you can also show multiple locations, and define clustering options
  • Styled Google Map also has integration with Google's Directions service, so visitors can easily get turn-by-turn directions for how to reached their chosen location
  • The module also includes a demo submodule you can use to quickly set up a working example to illustrate all the different options available using Styled Google Map

Today we are talking about Config Actions, The Panels Favorite Drupal Modules, and Drupal Contribution. We’ll also cover Transform API as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/459

• New Config Action: Place Block
• Favorite Contrib modules
• Slack channels
• Preparing for Drupal 11
• Drupal events

• Config Action Place Block
• Front End Editing Drupal Module
• Gin Admin Theme
• Migrate Boost
• Keysave
• Navigation
• Matt Glaman Smart Date Code Blog Post

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to expose your Drupal site’s data as JSON using view modes, formatters, blocks, and more? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/transform_api
  • Transform API
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2023 by LupusGr3y, aka Martin Giessing of Denmark
  • Versions available: 1.1.0-beta4 and 1.0.2 versions available, both of which work with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, in fact the latest commit was earlier today
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation: in-depth README and a full user guide
  • Number of open issues: 14 open issues, 3 of which are bugs, but none against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 2 sites
• Module features and usage
  • After installing Transform API, you should be able to get the JSON for any entities on your site by adding “format=json” as a parameter to the URL
  • To get more fields exposed as JSON, you can configure a Transform mode, using a Field UI configuration very similar to view modes
  • You can also add transform blocks to globally include specific data in all transformed URLs, in the same way you would use normal blocks to show information on your entity pages. The output of transform blocks is segmented into regions,
  • Where Drupal’s standard engine produces render arrays that ultimately become HTML, Transform API replaces it with an engine that produces Transform Arrays that will ultimately become JSON
  • Where Drupal’s standard JSON:API supports more or less exposes all information as raw data for the front end to format, Transform API allows for more of the formatting to be managed on the back end, where it will use Drupal’s standard caching mechanisms, permission-based access, and more
  • Transform API also supports lazy transformers, which are callbacks that will be called after caching but before the JSON response is sent
  • You can also use alter hooks to manipulate the transformed data

Today we are talking about Next.js, what it is, and how to integrate it with Drupal with guest John Albin Wilkins. We’ll also cover Next.js Webform as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/458

• What is Next.js
• What kind of server do you need
• How is it used on the web
• Does it only work on react based systems
• Why would someone want to integrate with Drupal
• When changes are made in the content how do you update the app
• On the module page there are a lot of references to Preview, is this something Next does well
• What is server side rendering
• How does Next work with menus and views
• Any preference on the api for json api vs graphql
• Performance
• Editorial experience
• Responsive images
• Will Drupal ever ship with a headless front end
• Winner of the TPOTM

• Next.js
• Next.js Wikipedia
• Next.js Webform Tutorial
• Example Next.js template to render an arbitrary webform
• Decoupled Menus Initiative
• FormDazzle
• Trival Patch of the Month
• https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/258089
• Flexinode

John Albin Wilkins - john.albin.net JohnAlbin

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build a webform in Drupal and have the corresponding Next.js template automatically created for you? There’s a Next.js library for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Next.js Webform
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Aug 2022 by Lauri Timmanee (lauriii), who listeners may know as the Drupal Core Product Manager, and one of the people leading the Starshot initiative
  • Versions available: 1.1.1
• Maintainership
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - Lengthy README and a tutorial on the Acquia Dev Portal
  • Number of open issues: 17 open issues, 3 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 2,246 weekly downloads according to npmjs.com
• Module features and usage
  • Using this library does require some setup on the Drupal side, including installing the Webform and Webform REST modules. There’s also an extra patch to install if you want to use any autocomplete fields, and some configuration needed for both the REST resources that will be used to exchange data, and the permissions for the account that will be used to retrieve and submit data
  • Out of the box, the library supports over 40 webform components, but you can also provide custom elements if you need something additional. The library also supports conditional logic, so fields can show or hide in the Next.js front end based on conditions defined in your Drupal backend
  • The library also provides front-end validation for email confirmation, date list, and datetime fields, but back end validation is also processed for every submission
  • There is a crowded field of headless CMS competitors, but I thought this library is a good example of the extra power and flexibility you get by using a robust, open source CMS like Drupal as the back end in your headless architecture

Today we are talking about Drupal Architecture, Common Site Building questions, and How we solve things with Drupal with guest Alexander Varwijk. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.3 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/457

• Where do you start when thinking about a new site or feature.
• Where is the line for extending vs forking
• Do you have solutions that you default to when building a feature
• Do you find people come to Drupal with specific third party requirements
• What do you think about Headless
• When do you choose to contribute a new module to Drupal
• Will recipes change your architecture
• How do you learn about new ways of doing things
• Where did you get your username, are you the king of the Netherlands

• Drupal Core Issues to split "Site builder" functionality into more granular chunks
  • "Administer Users" permission should be separate from "Administer Account Settings"
  • Enabling "List User" without "Administer Users"
• Fibers for concurrency in core (and the Revolt Event Loop)
• Change records for Drupal 10.3
• Bigpipe to Revolt
• ChatGPT / CKEditor Issue
• Config update issue
• Issue for update hook divergence
• Tinode
  • A free, unlimited, and flexible open source messaging platform that’s been built mobile-first
• View transitions api
• Change in supported versions for the Open Social distribution

Alexander Varwijk - alexandervarwijk.com Kingdutch

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you been wanting to use Workspaces, Single Directory Components, Recipes, or the new admin menu in your Drupal site? The new Drupal 10.3 release is better for using all of these and more.
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal 10.3
• Brief history
  • How old: It was tagged on Jun 20 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
• Features and usage
  • In this new minor version, Workspaces is now declared stable, and Single Directory Components are now fully integrated into core, instead of being in an experimental module.
  • Drupal 10.3 also includes the new Access Policy API that was funded as part of the Pitchburgh process kicked off at DrupalCon Pittsburgh
  • The “super user” access policy that automatically grants user 1 every permission can now be turned off in services.yml
  • Also, Recipes and the new Navigation menu are available as experimental features
  • The Actions UI, Book, and Statistics modules are deprecated, and contrib projects are available
  • Install profiles can now be uninstalled, and new sites can be installed without any profile at all
  • 10.3 also includes a revision UI for taxonomy terms, and they can also be used with content moderation
  • All core-provided image styles now include WebP conversion
  • The state service now uses a cache collector for performance, which requires opt in within settings.php for existing sites
  • There are other performance improvements, including: POST requests are now render cacheable, duplicate queries during logins are avoided, and big pipe requests now avoid reading session from the database multiple times
  • With 10.3 developer can also make use of a new AJAX command to open a URL in a dialog, and a new DraggableListBuilderTrait, among a host of other changes
  • Of course, there are some additional deprecations, so the Project Update Bot has already been busy creating new MRs

Today we are talking about DDEV, The DDEV Community, and It’s Future Sustainability with guest Randy Fay and Andrew Berry. We’ll also cover DDEV Drupal Contrib as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/456

• What is DDEV
• In March you posted the DDEV Project Plan for 2024, what is the contributor training initiative
• DDEV has grown rapidly over the past few years, what do you attribute that to
• You seem to be the face of DDEV, who else is involved
• How is DDEV funded
• What happens when you retire
• Does the DDEV Foundation have employees
• What is DDEV coded in
• What is your favorite feature of DDEV
• What is next
• How can people get involved

• DDEV Project 2024 Plans
• DDEV Contributor Live Training
• Scheduling and signup
• DDEV Discord
• Nerdsniping XKCD Comic
• Level one learning xz utils

Andrew Berry - deviantintegral

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a local DDEV environment optimized for working on a Drupal contrib project? There’s a DDEV add-on for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • DDEV Drupal Contrib
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2023 by Moshe Weitzman, a Drupal core maintainer, and according to his resume the first American to contribute to Drupal
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-rc8
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - Lengthy README
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug
• Module features and usage
  • The add-on adds two ddev commands to help during setup:
  • ddev poser creates a temporary composer.contrib.json, adding drupal/core-recommended as a dev dependency. It also runs composer install and yarn install so that all dependencies are available
  • The additional ddev symlink-project command adds symlinks from your project files to an expected path within the custom modules directory of the installed version of Drupal
  • Once it’s set up, you can easily run tests locally exactly the way they will be run in GitlabCI. It’s also even easier to apply any of the automatic fixes that are available, for example by running ddev phpcbf or ddev eslint with the –fix flag
  • You can also commit the generated .ddev directory inside your project, to make it easy for other contributors to use the same tools
  • I will note that after running ddev poser I got errors trying to use composer to add any other projects to the local environment, for example to use admin toolbar for manual testing
  • That said, this is another great example of how the set of Drupal developer tools is always improving, and also illustrates to the power of DDEV’s add-ons

Today we are talking about AI Tips for Drupal Devs, AI Best Practices, and Drupal Droid with guest Mike Miles. We’ll also cover AI interpolator as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/455

• Top 5 tips
  • Idea Generation (Ideation)
  • Code Generation
  • Debugging
  • Content Generation
  • Technical Explanations
• How do you suggest people use AI for Ideation
• Is MIT Sloan using AI to help with Drupal Development
• Does that code get directly inserted into your sites
• What are some common pitfalls
• Is your team using AI for debugging
• Any best practices you have found helping when working with AI
• Is MIT Sloan using AI for content generation
• What is an example of how you use AI for technical explanations
• What is your view ont he future of AI in Drupal, do you think AI will replace Drupal developers

• Drupal Droid
• Talking Drupal - Drupal Droid
• Workflows of ai
• AI guidelines
  • https://ist.mit.edu/ai-guidance
  • https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/
• Using AI as a Development Tool
• Drupal Starshot: Delivering on a promise to Ambitious Site Builders

Michael Miles - mike-miles.com mikemiles86

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use AI to help populate entity fields that were left blank by Drupal content authors? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • AI Interpolator
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2023 by Marcus Johansson of FreelyGive
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-rc4
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, recent release in the past month
  • Security coverage - opted in, needs stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation - User guide
  • Number of open issues: 18 open issues, none of which are a bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 94 sites
• Module features and usage
  • In scientific fields, interpolation is the process of using known data to extrapolate or estimate unknown data points. In a similar way this module helps your Drupal site provide values for fields that didn’t receive input, based on the information that was provided.
  • Fundamentally Interpolator AI provides a framework and an API, and then relies on companion modules for processing, either by leveraging third-party services like AI LLMs, or PHP-based scripting.
  • There are existing integrations with a variety of AI services, including OpenAI, Dreamstudio, Hugging Face, and more.
  • You can add retrievers to help extract and normalize the content you’re processing, for example photos from an external site, and other tools to help normalize and optimize content and media, and optimize any prompts you will be using with AI services.
  • You can also extend the workflow capabilities of AI Interpolator, for example using the popular and powerful ECA module that we’ve talked about before on this show.

Today we are talking about Drupal’s API Client, What it does, and why you might need it with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Iconify Icons as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/454

• Brian what is new with you!
• Elevator pitch for Drupal API Client
• What was Pitchburg like
• Is this a normalizer for JSON API
• Why is this JS framework agnostic
• What is typescript and how does Drupal API Client use it
• Looking at the quick start guide the second step is to create an instance, where do you do that
• Who is this module for
• Will Drupal API Client be added to core
• What is on the roadmap
• How does this relate to Chapter Three and Next.js
• What is the spin up time
• How will Starshot impact this

• API Client
• API Client Quick Start
• NPM Packages
• Ideas Queue Issue - Promote API client packages to Drupal NPM namespace
• Drupal at your Fingertips
• Open collective
• JSON API Schema

Brian Perry - brianperry.dev brianperry

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to empower your content creators to place icons from a massive, open source library into your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Iconify Icons
• Brief history
  • How old: created on May 22 of this year, so less than two weeks ago, by David Galeano (gxleano) of Factorial
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, right up to Drupal 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site
• Module features and usage
  • Out of the box the module provides both a CKEditor button for placing icons, and a new field type. It even provides a new form element that can be used in custom forms, a render element you can use to programmatically put an icon into something like a custom block, and a Twig extension that can be used to place icons in templates.
  • According to the project page, the Iconify icon library includes more than 200,000 icons, though in my limited experimentation it seems like there are some duplicates between icon sets. Speaking of which, Iconify provides over 150 different icon sets, and in this module’s configuration you can specify which ones you want to be available on your site.
  • Placing an icon is as simple as using an autocomplete to search the names of the icons available, and a preview is shown for each of the matches found.
  • The field widget and the CKEditor button both give content creators options for what size and color to use for the icons. For myself I’d prefer to lock some of those options down (for example, make that part of the field’s display configuration instead), but I’m sure that could be added as part of a different widget.
  • I can think of a few Drupal sites I’ve built where this would have been really handy, so I’m interested to play around with this module some more, and see how it evolves.

 Today we are talking about Urban Institute, What they do, and How they use Drupal with guest Josh Miller. We’ll also cover Access Unpublished as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/453

• Tell us how you got started with Drupal
• What does Urban Institute do
• What do you do at Urban Institute
  • Number of people on dev team
  • Number of sites
• How does Urban Institute use Drupal
• Are you using a custom upstream
• How many sites on Drupal 7
• Are you doing Page builders
• What kind of front end tools do you use
• What is the preferred local development tool
• Why did Urban Institute choose Drupal
• What is the hardest part of using Drupal at a large non profit
• What is the most interesting interactive experience you have built for Urban Institute

• Urban Institute
  • https://www.urban.org/
  • https://datacatalog.urban.org
  • https://upward-mobility.urban.org/
• Josh's new custom home
• Urban Institute at DrupalCon 2023
• DKAN
• Drupal GovCon
• Post-recording
  • https://www.palantir.net/blog/open-all-bringing-collaborative-editing-drupal-node
  • https://www.palantir.net/edittogether
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/yjs

Josh Miller - joshmiller

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

• Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to get feedback on unpublished content from people who aren’t users on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Access Unpublished
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2011 by aberg, though recent releases are by Christian Fritsch (chr.fritsch) of Thunder
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.5
• Maintainership
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 58 open issues, 17 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 8,638 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Once installed, this module adds a new element to your unpublished entity forms, for generating links with a special hash value. When generating the link, you can choose how long the hash value can be used for access.
  • Within that form section, you can copy the access URL for any of your generated tokens, and then paste into an email or some kind of direct message.
  • You will need to set a permission for users to access content using the special access URLs, so if you want anyone with the URL to be allowed access, you’ll need to assign that permission to the Anonymous user role
  • The access lifetime can be anything from 1 day to unlimited (never expires), and you can set the default value in the settings form. That form also allows you to set the URL parameter that will be used for access, gives you options to modify the HTTP headers on the unpublished page, and has a check box you can use to delete all expired tokens.
  • Expired tokens will be deleted on cron run, and when you delete an entity any related tokens are also removed.
  • This use case of allowing review of unpublished content for people who aren’t users in the Drupal site is a request I hear on a regular (if infrequent) basis, so I’ve personally found this module really useful.
• Necessary Patch: https://www.drupal.org/project/access_unpublished/issues/3421309
• Not to be confused with https://www.drupal.org/project/preview_link
  • Preview link is missing the ability to set length of access.

Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #452 Starshot & Experience Builder.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/452

• What is Starshot
• What is Experience builder
• How will Starshot build on Drupal Core
• Will Experience builder be added to Core
• Listener thejimbirch:
  • When will people hear about their pledge
• Listener brook_heaton:
  • Will experience builder be compatible with layout builder
• Will Experience builder allow people to style content
• Listener Matthieu Scarset
  • Who is Starshot trying to compete with
• Listener Andy Blum
  • Does the DA or other major hosting companies plan to set up cheap, easy hosted Drupal
• Listener Ryan Szarma
  • Who does this initiative serve in the business community
• How can people get involved

• Drupal Starshot
• Experience Builder

Lauri Eskola - lauriii

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have your modules create content when they’re installed? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Default Content
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2015 by prolific contributor Lee Rowlands (larowlan) though the most recent releases are by Sascha Grossenbacher (Berdir), also a maintainer of many popular Drupal modules
  • Versions available: 2.0.0-alpha2, which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Security coverage: opted in, but needs a stable release
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 105 open issues, 29 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 20,000 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a way for modules to include default content, in the same way that many modules already include default configuration
  • The module exports content as YAML files, and your module can specify the content that should be exported by listing the UUIDs in the info.yml file
  • It also provides a number of drush commands, to export a single entity, to export an entity and all of its dependencies, or to bulk export all of the content referenced in a module’s .info.yml file
  • There is also a companion project to export default content using an action within a view, which also makes me think it could probably be automated with something like ECA if you needed that
  • Exported content should be kept in a content directory in your module, where it will imported during install on any site that has the default_content module installed
  • I thought this would be a good module to cover today because Drupal core’s recipe system also includes support for default content, so when you install a recipe it will similarly import any YAML-encoded content in the recipe. In fact, I used this module for the first time exporting taxonomy terms I wanted a recipe to create as default values for a taxonomy it creates. Since Recipes will be a big part of Starshot, I expect default_content to be getting a lot of use in the coming months

Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing with version numbers, what competitors are doing, and Learning to Just Saying Drupal with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Trash as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/451

• What is the premise of Just Say Drupal
• Why do you think it is important to drop the version number
• Where do you suggest we drop verison numbers
• In sales, if you don't mention version, how do you talk to clients
• Why could using version numbers be detrimental
• What do you suggest we call Drupal 7
• Have you spoken to the Drupal marketing team
• At Drupalcon they unveiled a new Brand Guide
• What do you think of Drupal Starshot
• Where do we go from here

• Ten7 Blog - Just Say Drupal
  • https://ten7.com/blog/post/just-say-drupal
  • https://justsaydrupal.org
• Drupal issue
• Drupal Brand Guide
• Drupal.org Issue
• Starshot
  • https://www.drupal.org/starshot
  • https://www.hojtsy.hu/blog/2024-may-13/drupal-11-deep-dive-watch-recording-present-your-own-free-slides
  • https://herchel.com/articles/thoughts-drupals-new-starshot-initiative
  • https://mglaman.dev/blog/starshot-recipe-cook-ambitious-drupal-applications
• Drupal tooling

Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to have a trash bin for content entities, so they wouldn’t be immediately deleted from the database? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Trash
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2008 by rötzi, though recent releases are by Andrei Mateescu (mah-teh-sku) (amateescu) of Tag1
  • Versions available: 3.0.3, compatible with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, release less than two months old
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1899 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Once the module is installed, you choose which entity types on your site should use the new trash storage
  • For all the configured entities, deleting a piece of content moves it into the new trash storage, along with a timestamp set for when it went into the trash
  • You can configure whether or not the trash should be automatically purged on a periodic basis, and if so how often that should happen
  • It seems that there are some entities for which the Trash module currently excludes its functionality, such as users, comments, taxonomy terms, and so on. The note in the code indicates that more testing is needed, so any of our listeners who wants to trash entities for any of these types could try out patching the TrashSettingsFormand on a local copy and provide feedback based on how things work
  • The ability to restore deleted content is a request I’ve heard a number of times, so this could be a really useful module for making Drupal work in ways that certain teams expect

Today we are talking about Certification & Exam Prep, Resources for studying, and tips to get a passing grade with guests Chad Hester & Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover Quiz Maker as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/450

• Why are exams and certifications important to dev's
• After going through the Talking Drupal Skills Upgrade mini series do you feel preparted to take an Acquia certification
• How should someone get ready
• What are some struggles people may have getting ready
• What does the plan look like for someone getting ready
• Does Acquia provide pre tests
• Did Skills Upgrade prepare you for this type of assessment
• What happens if you do not pass
• How do you know you're ready
• Tips and tricks for taking a test
• Where do you take the test
• Questions to someone who has taken the test
• Special surprise

• Acquia Certification Study Guides
• Acquia Certification Information
• Widgets Burritos D8 Certification Study Guide
• [email protected] for questions

• Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester
• Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build and deliver interactive quizzes on your Drupal website?
• Module name/project name:
  • Quiz Maker
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2024 (the last couple of weeks) by Roman Chekhaniuk (r_cheh)
  • Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Not yet opted into Security coverage, but being so new it’s possible they started the process of getting the project reviewed
  • Number of open issues: 0
• Usage stats:
  • Not currently installed on any sites yet, according to Drupal.org
  • Module features and usage
  • The module defines a number of of custom entities to allow your site to define very flexible quizzes, that can include options like the amount of time allowed, pass rate, maximum number of attempts, randomizing the sequence of the questions, and more
  • The module also defines custom plugins for questions, responses, and answers, so you can extend it to handle very custom use cases
  • The Quiz module is very popular in this space but the version you can use with modern versions of Drupal is still in alpha, so it’s great to see another option available, especially for sites that don’t need anything as complex as the Opigno LMS

Today we are talking about Agile Methodologies, How to pick the best one, and why they matter with guest Chris Wells. We’ll also cover CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/449

• Drupal FL Camp talk
• Fundamentals of Agile
• How do you square long term planning
• What is Redfin Solutions's preferred methodology
• What is Crystal Agile Methodology
• Do other methodologies have web specific versions
• Would you agree that large companies can use different agile methodologies
• Have you ever used Scrumban
• Listener Question: Shivan xamount:: Story points are usually equated to fibonacci numbers. These are not supposed to correlate to hours, what do you think about that?

• Drupal Camp FL - Letting Agile Emerge
• Scrum vs Kanban vs Scrumban
• Pirate module
• Alfred auto expansion
• 4 Kitchen’s talk - Consultancy scrum
• Sam Ryan project management methodologies

Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin.dev chrisfromredfin

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted CKEditor to autocorrect symbols like the copyright mark, the “not equals” sign, and fractions, from their text equivalents? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • CKEditor Text Transformation / AutoCorrect
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2024 by Gedvan Dias of Redfin Solutions
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKeditor 4 on Drupal 8, and 2.0.0-alpha1, which works with CKEditor 5 on Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, was released just a few weeks ago
  • Not much documentation of its own, but the module leverages CKEditor’s Automatic text transformation, which has a fair bit of documentation on CKEditor.com
  • Number of open issues: only 1 open issues, which is the Project Update Bot’s automatically-created Drupal 11 compatibility issue
• Usage stats:
  • 8 sites
• Module features and usage
  • By default the module enables four categories of transformations: 'symbols', 'mathematical', 'typography', and 'quotes'
  • You can override the module’s plugin if you want a different set enabled, but the module also provides a hook you can use to alter the active sets or define custom transformations, similar to using emojis in Slack, for example

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is the final episode, 9.

• Review status of Chad's Smart Date test
• Panel discussion
  • Chad, What was your biggest takeaway?
  • Mike, How do you approach this type of one on one mentorship differently than your courses?
  • AmyJune, do you think there are other types of focused mentorship like this that would be valuable to the community?
  • Chad, what was the most surprising thing you learned in Modern Drupal vs Drupal 7?
  • Michael, what did you learn through this process?
  • How do you think people will use this journey to help their learning process?
  • Chad, what are your plans for your next contribution?

Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes

The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/

Nic Laflin - www.nlightened.net AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Drupal 11 Readiness, What you need to think about, and PHPStan with guest Matt Glaman. We’ll also cover MRN as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: [www.talkingDrupal.com/448https://www.talkingDrupal.com/448)

• What do we mean by Drupal 11 Readiness
• How will this be different than 9 and 10
• Top 5 tips
• D11 Meeting and slack channel
• Will this be easier
• Major issues
• What is PHPStan
• How does it play a role
• How is PHPStan Drupal different than PHPStan
• Does using PHPStan with drupal reduce the need for tests
• How do you see it evolving over the next few years
• Drupal 12 wishlist

• PHPStan Drupal
• PHPStan
• Herodevs DrupalCon Party
• Smart date BC calls
• Contrib semantic versioning thoughts
• Change records
  • Drop is always moving
• Project analysis
• Gabor article Drupal rector
• Project update working group
• LTS even odd
• PHP version
• PHP stan rule levels
• Title issue

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted an easy way to generate detailed release notes for your contrib projects? There’s a web app for that
• Module name/project name:
  • MRN which is short for Maintainer / Module Release Notes
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Aug 2022 by today’s guest Matt Glaman
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest updates were earlier this year
  • Code project at https://github.com/mglaman/drupal-mrn has 13 open issues
• Usage stats:
  • Currently no usage reporting, but a tool I’ve been using a ton lately as I get modules ready for Drupal 11
• Module features and usage
  • It’s very simple to use, you just enter the machine name of your project, and then the numbers of the releases you want it to compare
  • It will generate the structure for your release note, include a spot for you to write a summary at the top, a list of contributors that links to their profiles, and a list of issues
  • Previously part of Matt’s drupalorg CLI project, MRN is now a lambda function on AWS, so there’s nothing to download or install
  • I like that you can choose which tags you want to compare, so if the release is part of a branch that doesn’t yet have a stable release, I’ll put a comparison to the previous release in the branch at the top, and then a comparison to the current stable release below it, so people can see the full list of everything new they’ll get by moving from the stable release
  • It’s worth noting that because this works from the git history, you need to make sure you credit everyone properly before clicking to merge an MR in the Drupal.org UI. You can give credit to other people after the fact using the checkbox and they’ll get contribution credits, but won’t be included in the release notes generated by MRN

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 8.

• Review Chad's questions

  • What is the process of creating a new issue, reviewing automated tests, and creating a merge request for review by the project maintainer?

    • https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal
    • https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-gitlab-to-contribute-to-drupal/creating-issue-forks
    • My example issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/smart_date/issues/3432819
    • My example merge request: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/smart_date/-/merge_requests/94

  • If we're not using Composer to pull the contrib module, how do we make sure that all dependencies are handled?

  • How can someone navigate so many complex issues without getting lost or "barking up the wrong tree"?

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • Work toward getting the merge request accepted.
  • Document learning bullet points for this journey.

Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Curriclum & Journal Chad's Drupal 10 Learning Notes

The Linux Foundation is offering a discount of 30% off e-learning courses, certifications and bundles with the code, all uppercase DRUPAL24 and that is good until June 5th https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification-catalog/

AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/447

• What is Single Sign On (SSO)
• Does Drupal already support SSO
• Why is SSO on drupal.org important
• Camps using SSO
• Other possibilities
• Gitlab login
• Cloud IAM
• Why did the Drupal Association choose Cloud IAM
• How do you see the collaboration growing
• Where are we now
• What are the next steps
• How far are we from this becoming a reality
• What does onboarding look like
• Will third party sites be able to use D.O SSO
• Can the community help
• Fog & Fireflies
  • First book
  • Can you buy it now

• Single Sign On is coming to Drupal.org thanks to Cloud IAM
• A new book called Fog & Fireflies
• Open ID Connect module
• Keycloak
• Neil Drumm
• Lucas Heddn
• Marco Villegas
• Tim Lehnen

Tim Lehnen - aspenthornpress.com hestenet

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have a field on user profiles specifically designed for drupal.org usernames? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Drupal.org Username Field
• Brief history
  • How old: created in August 2019 by hussainweb AKA Hussain Abbas of Axelerant
  • Versions available: 2.0.0-beta4
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, that release was made less than 6 months ago
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 8 open issues, none of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site
• Module features and usage
  • The module provides a new field type, along with its own widget and formatter
  • With a simple checkbox, you can get the module to validate that the provided username is registered on drupal.org
  • What’s really powerful about this module is that it can also pull other information from the drupal.org profile, such as first and last name, country, bio, and more
  • It does this by leveraging a Guzzle-based API client for drupal.org that Hussain created as part of a DrupalCon Asia developer contest
  • I believe the intended use of the modules is to use a provided drush command to copy the values from the drupal.org username field into other fields, where they would be displayed to site visitors
  • Although this module isn’t something that a lot of sites will need, I could see it being really useful for Drupal camp websites, to automatically collect a lot of the information that many such sites ask users to populate manually
  • I think it’s also an interesting use of the Drupal.org API, and could be a useful reference for anyone needing to implement a custom integration

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 7.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week

  • Test Example
  • Set up phpunit.xml
  • Start with FrontPageLinkTest.php

• Review Chad's questions

  • In the testing_example module, the file "src/Controller/TestingExampleController.php" has a function for simpletestDescription(). Is this an outdated artifact that should have been removed at some point? The module itself doesn't appear to use Simpletest elsewhere and appears to only rely on PHPUnit.
  • What do you recommend for the minimal code structure to include for any given test type? Is the Testing Example module an ideal model or are there other resources I should review? The testing reference from Selwyn was helpful.
  • In the "FrontPageLinkDependenciesTest.php" setUp() function, the createContentType() function is called without specifying the type. Is that set somewhere else? I may have overlooked it. Nevermind—it's set using randomMachineName() in the createContentType() function. Is there anything extra or standard to write in tests for drupal.org?

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • Smart Date - Martin (maintainer) to review promptly, I've already chatted with him about it. Create a new functional test: "submit a range with an end time before the start and validate that an error is returned"
    • Create an issue in the Smart Date queue and assign to yourself.
    • Create an issue fork.
    • Check out the issue fork locally.
    • Write (and test) the test locally.
    • Commit and push to the issue fork.
    • Mark issue as "Needs review".
    • Ask someone to review - if all looks good, the reviewer will mark as RBTC.

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Test Driven Development, Why it’s important, and How it improves development with guest Alexey Korepov. We’ll also cover Test Helpers as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/446

• What does the term Test Driven Development (TDD) mean
• Does Drupal make use of TDD
• What makes TDD different from other methods of Development
• Do you have to change your way of thinking
• What are some good resources to learn TDD
• Do you have any pointers for teams looking to get started
• Are certain kinds of projects better suited to TDD
• How have dev teams adapted to TDD
• Any advice on environment setup
• Any special tools

• Open telemetry
• QA Engineer
• Kent Beck Test Driven Development: By Example
• Needs tests tag
• Local unit tests
• PHPUnit

Alexey Korepov - korepov.pro Murz

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted an API that could dramatically simplify the process of writing Drupal unit tests? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Test Helpers
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2022 by today’s guest, Alexey Korepov
  • Versions available: 1.3.0 compatible with versions of Drupal 9.4 or newer, right up to Drupal 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release less than 3 months ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage, would be ironic if it didn’t
  • API Documentation is available, linked from the project page
  • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, which are actually feature requests
• Usage stats:
  • 5 sites officially, but modules or sites can leverage Test Helpers without enabling it, and this usage is recommended, so the number is actually higher
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a new container that automated tests can leverage to perform common tasks with much less code.
  • For example, you can create a user or a node with a single line of code
  • You can also mock more complex operations like an entityQuery or loadMultiple call, again with a single line of code
  • Traditionally, writing unit tests is more complicated because by design they run without fully bootstrapping Drupal
  • That means that your test needs to mock functions or services in the code you’re testing which can result in units tests being much longer than the code they’re testing
  • Test Helpers also allows your tests to leverage existing mocks and stubs for popular services
  • The project page also links to the recording and slides for a talk Alexey gave about Test Helpers at DrupalCon Pittsburgh last year, if you want to do a deeper dive

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 6.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week

• Review Chad's questions

  • Array structures
  • accordion.html.twig
  • D7 to D10 migrations

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • [testing_example](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/examples/-/tree/4.0.x/modules/testing_example?
  • Be sure to install drupal/core-dev dependencies using composer require –dev drupal/core-devref_type=heads) from Examples module.
  • Set up phpunit.xml file in project root - using this file to start
  • Run existing tests using command line from the project root. Something like: phpunit web/modules/contrib/examples/modules/testing_example/tests
  • Review test code in module.
  • Start with FrontPageLinkTest.php, then FrontPageLinkDependenciesTest.php, then TestingExampleMenuTest.php

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about The Drupal Bounty Program, How it supports innovation, and how you can get involved with guest Alex Moreno. We’ll also cover WebProfiler as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/445

• What is the Drupal Bounty program
• How and when did it start
• What issues and tasks are included
• Has the bounty program been successful
• Why was this program extended
• Do you see any drawbacks
• Can anyone participate
• How are issues for the second round being selected
• What do you see the future of the bounty program looking like
• Could this become like other bounty programs with cash
• Do you think the bounty program will help maintainers get sponsorship

• Introducing The Bounty Program
• Bounty Program Extension
• Bjorn
• Talking Drupal #425 - Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development

Alejandro Moreno - alexmoreno.net alexmoreno

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to get detailed performance data for the pages on your Drupal sites? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • WebProfiler
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2014 by Luca Lusso of Italy who was a guest on the show in episode #425
  • Versions available: 10.1.5 which works with Drupal >=10.1.2
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release on Feb 1
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Not much in the way of documentation, but the module is largely a wrapper for the Symfony WebProfiler bundle, which has its own section in the Symfony documentation
  • Number of open issues: 36 open issues, 13 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 477 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Once installed the module adds a toolbar to the bottom of your site, within which it will show a variety of data for every page:
  • Route and Controller
  • Memory usage
  • Time to load (with some additional setup)
  • Number of AJAX requests
  • Number of queries run and the total query time
  • Number of blocks visible
  • How many forms are on the profile
  • Lots of other detailed information available through links
  • Reports are saved into the database, so you can dig through additional details such as:
  • Request information like access metadata, cookies, session info, and server parameters, in addition to the request and response headers
  • All of the queries that ran, how long each took, and even a quick way to create an EXPLAIN statement to get deeper insight from your database engine
  • You can also view all the services available, and with a single click open the class file in the IDE of your choice
  • A handy alternative to other performance monitoring tools like XHProf (either as Drupal module, or installed directly into your development environment), or commercial tools like Blackfire or New Relic
  • Discussion
  • Luca’s book Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development actually provides a great deep dive into this module

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 5.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week

  • .gitignore
  • Field Example module
  • Plugin API
  • Drupaal 10 Masterclass book

• Review Chad's questions

  • Field Example follow up

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • Examples module: js_example module
    • js_example.libraries.yml
    • hook_theme() implementation in js_example.module
    • JsExampleController
    • template files

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about design to development hand off, common complications, and ways to optimize your process with guest Crispin Bailey. We’ll also cover Office Hours as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/444

• Primary activities of the team
• Where does handoff start
• Handoff artifact
• Tools for collaboration
• Figma
• Evaluating new tools
• Challenges of developers and designers working together
• How can we optimize handoff
• What steps can the dev team take to facilitate smooth handoff
• Framework recommendation
• Final quality
• AI

Crispin Bailey - kalamuna.com crispinbailey

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to manage and display the hours of operation for a business on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Office Hours
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2008 by Ozeuss, though recent releases are by John Voskuilen of the Netherlands
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.11 and 8.x-1.17
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release was 3 weeks ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation: no user guide, but a pretty extensive README
  • Number of open issues: 15 open issues, only 1 of which are bugs against the current branch, though it’s postponed for more info
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 20,000 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Previously covered in episode 113, more than 8 years ago, in the “Drupal 6 end of life” episode
  • The module provides a specialized widget to set the hours for each weekday, with the option to have more than one time slot per day
  • You can define exceptions, for example on stat holidays
  • You can also define seasons, with a start and end date, during which the hours are different
  • The module also offers a variety of options for formatting the output:
  • You can show days as ranges, for example Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, 12-hour or 24-hour clocks, and so on
  • Obviously it will show any exceptions or upcoming seasonal hours too
  • It can also show an “open now” or “closed now” indicator
  • It can create schema.org-compliant markup for openingHours, and has integration with the Schema.org Metatag module
  • Office Hours does all this with a new field type, so you could add it to Stores in a Drupal Commerce site, a Locations content type in a site for a bricks-and-mortar chain, or if you just need a single set of hours for the site, you should be able to use it with something like the Config Pages module
  • The README file also includes some suggestions on how to use Office Hours with Views, which can give you a lot of flexibility on where and how to show the information

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 4.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week

  • Install Drush
  • Setup git repo
  • Examples module

• Review Chad's questions

  • .gitignore
  • Core file naming

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • Reminder of the capstone goal: create MR for new automated test in contrib module.
  • Examples module: field_example. New RGB field type with formatter and widgets. Focus on stuff in field_example/src/Plugin/Field
    • Background info on Plugins: https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/plugin-api
    • Focus on the following sections:
      • https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/plugin-api/plugin-api-overview
      • https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/plugin-api/why-plugins
      • https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/plugin-api/annotations-based-plugins

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Violinist.io, Managing Composer Dependencies, and automation with guest Eirik Morland. We’ll also cover Composer Patches as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/443 Topics

• What is Violinist.io
• How does it work
• How much technical knowledge do you need
• Is this a security risk
• How much does it cost
• Patron question: Peter: Difference between violinist and dependabot
• What are the major differences in plans
• Who is the ideal user
• Can you self host
• Can this help with Drupal 11 readiness
• Complementary tools
• Notable users
• Why did you start this
• What is it like using Drupal for a SAAS
• Is it open source
• Pros and cons of open source for a SAAS
• How can the community support
• What is on the roadmap

Resources

• Violinist.io
• Violinist on D.o

Guests

    Eirik Morland - violinist.io eiriksm

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
• Have you ever wanted a simple way to manage patches to Drupal core and your contrib projects? There’s a composer plugin for that
• Module name/project name:
• https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches
• Composer Patches
• Brief history
• How old:created in Apr 2015 by Cameron Weagans
• Versions available: 1.7.3 and 2.0.0-beta2
• Maintainership
• Actively maintained, beta2 release was a little over a month ago
• Test coverage
• Has a documentation site, as well as a COMMANDS markdown file in the repo to help you get started
• Number of open issues: 10, 2 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
• It’s been installed over 42 million times and it’s approaching 43 thousand installs per day, according to a recent blog post
• Module features and usage
• Using the plugin is simple, you require cweagans/composer-patches the same way you would a Drupal contrib project. The important difference is that composer will ask you if you trust composer-patches to make changes to your codebase. Once you grant that, the plugin is ready to start applying patches
• You can specify what patches you want applied by adding a patches section to the extra section of your project’s composer.json file, or by adding a patches.json file
• Each patch can be specified using a URL or a path relative to the JSON file
• In theory it’s possible to have composer patches pulled directly from the diff in a merge request, but this is a significant security risk and should always be avoided
• The first beta release for the 2.0 branch actually dropped support for dependency patch resolution, noting that it had become the source of most support requests. In the end the community made it clear that they would resist upgrading without this capability, so the most recent beta2 release adds it back in.
•     Finally, on his website cweagans.net Cameron mentions that he’s currently looking for full-time employment. So if your organization relies heavily on composer in general or composer-patches specifically, consider reaching out to him

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 3.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week

  • DDEV performance improvements
  • Install Drupal 10
  • Install drupal/core-dev
  • Configure and test phpcs
  • Test phpstan
  • settings.local.php
  • Install Devel module

• Review Chad's questions

  • Rancher Desktop appears to be holding on to port 443 after I installed it. Although I changed the port to something else, do you have any suggestions to update the setup to use ports 443 and 80 instead?
  • How are tools like phpcs and PHPStan used by the Drupal community for contrib? Are they a part of drupal.org's testing automation?
  • Starting a new D10 website from scratch in DDEV is one thing … How would I typically work with an existing D10 website? Do I start with the community config, then overwrite the code, database, and files? Is there a better approach?

• Tasks for the upcoming week

  • Install Drush using Composer

  • Examples module

    • https://drupal.org/project/examples

  • routes/controllers/forms

    • Review: https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/routing-system/introductory-drupal-routes-and-controllers-example
    • Go through the "Page example" module from the Examples module.

  • Check back for "docker context use rancher-desktop" stuff.

  • Create a new Git repository for your D10 site with Composer dependencies not committed to the repository.

    • .gitignore stuff
    • cp web/example.gitignore web/.gitignore
    • Create ./.gitignore with:

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about Mercury Editor, What it does, and how it could change your editorial life with guest Justin Toupin. We’ll also cover Webform Protected Downloads as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/442

• What is Mercury Editor
• What is powering Mercury Editor
• Do you see any risk building on top of Paragraphs
• Does Mercury Editor cost anything
• Can companies hire Aten to add features
• What are some key features
• What makes Mercury Editor unique
• How stable is the content
• What happens if Paragraphs stops being supported
• How can the community help

• Mercury Editor
• Layout Paragraphs Episode
• Layout Paragraphs
• Paragraphs Library
  • Sub-module of Paragraphs
• Style options
• Layout Paragraphs restrictions

Justin Toupin - atendesigngroup.com justin2pin

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have downloadable content on your website, only available to visitors who have filled out a webform? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Webform Protected Downloads
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2010 by berliner, but the most recent releases are by james.williams of Computer Minds
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.1 and 8.x-1.0-alpha2 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, the latest release was a week ago
  • Security coverage
  • Introductory blog linked on the project page
  • Number of open issues: 18 open issues, none of which are bugs against the current branch
• Usage stats:
  • 804 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Having thought leadership content like white papers or reports gated behind a lead capture form is a common pattern for websites, and this module is designed to make that easy to set up
  • You use the module by adding a handler to your webform, similar to triggering an email send
  • In the configuration for your webform protected download handler you have options for how much verification you want for the download link, whether or not the link should expire after a period of time, and so on, in addition to uploading one or more files that can be downloaded by people who submit the webform
  • The module provides tokens for the download URLs, so you can easily include them in a submission confirmation message or email

Welcome back to “Skills Upgrade” a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a D7 developer learning D10. This is episode 2.

• Review Chad's goals for the previous week
  • DDEV Installation
  • Docker for Mac vs other options
  • IDE Setup
• Review Chad's questions
• Tasks for the upcoming week
  • DDEV improve performance
  • Install Drupal 10
  • Install drupal/core dependencies
  • Configure and test phpcs
  • Test phpstan
  • Set up settings.local.php
  • Install devel module

DDEV Performance DDEV Quickstart Drupal Core Dependencies How to Implement Drupal Code Standards Running PHPStan On Drupal Custom Modules Why you should care about using settings.local.php Rancher Desktop

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Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about CI for Drupal modules, How it helps us build Drupal, and the ongoing work and improvements being made with guest Fran Garcia-Linares. We’ll also cover Require on Publish as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/441

• What does CI mean
• How do Drupal modules use CI
• When we talk about Drupal CI are we talking about the website itself or the CI that supports contributors
• What tools does Drupal use for CI
• How do maintainers interact with CI
• What changes have happened in the last year
• Speed improvements
• Drupal CI vs Gitlab CI
• Process to convert
• When is Drupal CI being shut down
• What improvements are coming
• If someone has an issue where do they get help

• Gitlab templates module
• Gitlab CI Drupal
• Support ElasticSearch 8 [#3279558] | Drupal.org
• Slack channel for ci questions #gitlab
• DrupalCI and all patch testing will be turned off on July 1, 2024 | Drupal.org
• Testing a Drupal module | Basic module building tutorial: Lorem ipsum generator
• Gitlab CI getting started
  • GitLab CI | Using GitLab to Contribute to Drupal
  • WIP:
    • Create a space to document how to customize each of the GitLab CI jobs [#3423238] | Drupal.org will generate https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/gitlab_templates/
    • We are pushing for a basic version to be fully live this week
• [Meta] Switching to Gitlab CI [#3424725] | Drupal.org

Fran Garcia-Linares - fjgarlin

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have content fields that could be optional until a piece of content is published, or ready to be published? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Require on Publish
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2018 by Mike Priscella (mpriscella), though recent releases are by Mark Dorison (markdorison) of Chromatic
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release just over a month ago
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 18, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 3,001 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module enabled, form to configure fields for you content types will have a new checkbox labeled “Required on Publish”
  • Check this new box instead of the normal “Required field” checkbox to have the field only required if the content is being published or already published
  • Useful for publishing workflows where you want content creators to be able to quickly get started on content, but ensure that fields will be filled in before publishing
  • Useful for fields that will optimize the content for SEO, social sharing, search, and so on

This is the first episode of Skills Upgrade, a Talking Drupal mini-series following the journey of a Drupal 7 developer learning Drupal 10.

• Chad and Mike's first meeting
• Chad's Background
• Chad's goals
• Tasks for the week

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AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Chad Hester - chadkhester.com @chadkhest Mike Anello - DrupalEasy.com @ultimike

Today we are talking about the cost around Drupal, common misconceptions, and how you get what you pay for with guest Jeff Robbins. We’ll also cover Module Instructions as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/440

• What is new!
• How did you get started with Drupal
• Selling Drupal and the cost
• How much is the technology vs the complexity of projects that lend themselves to Drupal
• Value of Drupal
• What can the Drupal community do to make it more widely attractive
• Versionless Drupal marketing

• Drupal.org README.md Documentation
• Drupal versioning discussion
• Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies
• Talking Drupal #429 - The Drupal Association Board
• Talking Drupal #439 - Drupal 7 Long-Term Support
• Visibox
• Jeff Robbins
• MySQL
• PHP

Jeff Robbins - jjeff.com jjeff

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to have easy access to the README, CHANGELOG, and INSTALL files for the contrib modules on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Module Instructions
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2012 by Ales Rebec of Slovenia
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.0 and 2.0.3 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained?
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 2.0.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1,238 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Current maintainer of the 2.0.x branch is Viktor Holovachek a.k.a Aston Victor of the Ukraine Drupal Community
• Module features and usage
  • The usage of the module is pretty straightforward. Once the module is installed, anyone who has access to the Modules page on a Drupal site will see links on that page to any README, CHANGELOG, or INSTALL files that are available for the contrib modules in the codebase
  • It also provides a cron job and drush command to generate the links, stored in the site state, so the application isn’t doing all the work of parsing through all your contrib modules looking for the files every time someone wants to load the Modules page
  • It does override the template for the module page to add those links, so be aware that if you’re doing something very custom and have overridden that template in something like a custom admin theme, you may need to manually add some extra markup to see the links
  • The module does also define new permissions, to manage the settings for these links, or to view them
  • The settings really consist of specifying which of the links you want to appear, if the relevant files are available. By default it will show all three, but you could, for example, only have it show README links

Today we are talking about Drupal 7 Long Term Support, common security tips, and support services you can use with guests Greg Knaddison, Aaron Frost, and Dave Welch . We’ll also cover Storybook as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/439

• Drupal 7 EoL
• Drupal will not stop working
• Security team perspective
• Security concerns
• Extened Community Support
• Long Term support
• HeroDevs
• Never ending support (NES)
  • PHP
  • Hosting
  • Security
  • Contrib
• Product advisor
• Colorado Digital Service

• herodevs.com
• Colorado Digital Service

Greg Knaddison - morrisanimalfoundation.org greggles Aaron Frost - herodevs.com aaronfrost Dave Welch - herodevs.com dwelch2344

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Mark Casias - markie

• Module name/project name:
  • Storybook
• Brief description:
  • The storybook module makes it easier to create a connection between Drupal and Storybook. It adds some Twig functionality so you can write Stories in Twig as opposed to YML or JSON or React
• Brief history
  • How old: Less than a year
  • Versions available: Alpha4 came out earlier this month
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained: Yes
  • Number of open issues: 6
  • Test coverage: no
• Usage stats:
  • N/A: for development only
  • Maintainer(s):
  • Mateu Aguiló Bosch (e0ipso) from Lullabot.
  • Module features and usage
  • Twig based stories
  • Pulls in Sites theme and base css.
  • So needs some updates to the development.services.yml
  • Also means it is hard to publish a storybook.
  • No need for SDC (but works well with it)
  • Great instructions on the module page
  • Way easier than previous integrations including cl_server.
  • Not as opinionated as previous storybook integrations.

Today we are talking about CKEditor 4 End of Life, Moving to CKEditor 5, and what you can expect from CKEditor 5 now and in the future with guest Wim Leers. We’ll also cover CKEditor 5 Premium Features as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/438

• CKEditor 4 end of life June 2023
• Issues people might see if they are still on CKE4
• Why a third party library and not roll our own
• Are there other alternatives
• Why did Drupal decide on CKEditor
• Drupal 10 moved to CKE5 How should people update
• Upgrade gotchas
• What's new in CKE5
• What is on the roadmap regarding Drupal and CKE5
• Is there going to be a CKE6
• Native Web Components
• Does CKE in core affect Gutenberg

• CKEditor 4 End Of Life
  • Contrib
  • Core, prioritized upstream blockers
  • Core, all issues blocked on upstream (currently 29), if we look just at bugs there's 17 (1 of which is critical, 6 major)
• Drastically improve the linking experience in CKEditor 5
• Drupal Image ability to opt in to SVG image uploads
• Native
  and
  UX
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3274635
• Extended html filter
• Views / ckeditor custom elements

Wim Leers - wimleers.com Wim Leers

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to offer your content creators advanced capabilities like real-time collaboration? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • CKEditor 5 Premium Features
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2022 by Wiktor Walc, although recent releases are by Wojciech (vOYchekh) Kukowski, both of CKSource, the company behind CKEditor (Wiktor was on episode 372 https://talkingdrupal.com/372)
  • Current version available: 1.2.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past month
  • User Guide available, link is in the README
  • Number of open issues: 16, 8 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 159 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To me, the most compelling features enabled by this module are the ones that turn your Drupal WYSIWYG into a robust collaboration tool, similar to what users may be used to in tools like Google Docs or Office 365
  • Real-time inline comments and changes from multiple users
  • Track changes to suggest ways the content could be improved
  • A history of changes made in the WYSIWYG, independent of the saved Drupal revisions
  • Tag users with @ mentions to have them notified
  • There’s also a Productivity Pack to enhance your WYSIWYG, and again some of these will be familiar to users that also use popular online collaboration tools
  • A document outline that uses heading within your content to make navigation for moving quickly within the document
  • Can generate a linked Table of Contents, which will automatically update as headings are added or changed
  • Slash commands to execute actions
  • Enhanced Paste from Office, to preserve complex incoming content structures, but with clean HTML as the result
  • And more!
  • Another premium feature is the ability to export to Word or PDF, and it can also restore full screen editing, a feature that didn’t make the transition from CKEditor 4 to 5, as part of the open source offering
  • Finally, it also includes an AI Assistant that provides yet another interesting way to empower your content authors to leverage AI tools for their writing, including the ability to change the style, length, or tone of selected content using pre-made prompts, or generate content with custom queries. It also works with a number of different models out of the box, so you’re not restricted to ChatGPT
  • The module is open source but using these premium features does require a subscription. The pricing will depend on the number of active users and which features you need, so if you’d like more information you can use the contact form at ckeditor.com
  • Also worth mentioning here that the team at Palantir has released a YouTube video of an open source collaborative editor that they’re calling Edit Together. It’s based on the ProseMirror rich-text editor framework, and the blog where they announced it mentioned a mid-2024 release, but that was back in Jul 2023 and I haven’t been able to find any updates since then

Today we are talking about sending email with Drupal, The Easy Email Module, and Drupal Mail Best Practices with guest Wayne Eaker. We’ll also cover Content Access by Path as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/437

• Current state of email
• What happened to swiftmailer
• Do you still need the mailsystem module
• Why Symfony Mailer
• New dependency in core
• Difference between Symfony Mailer module and the Symfony Mailer Lite module
• How does the Easy email module make it easier
• What are the features of Easy Email
• Why not use PHP mail
• JMAP
• Do you have a roadmap
• How do we communicate the different module options
• Are you looking for help

• Easy Email Module
• Symfony Mailer Lite Module
• Symfony Mailer Module
• Mail System Module
• hook_mail replacement issue
• Swiftmailer / Symfony mailer issue
• JMAP
• FastMail
• Free Easy Email Webinar

Wayne Eaker - drupaltutor.com zengenuity

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to grant users access to edit content based on the path alias of the content? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Content Access by Path
• Brief history
  • How old: created in the past month by Mark Conroy of Annertech, who is also a core subsystem maintainer for the Umami profile
  • Versions available: a stable 1.0.0, created in the past week, that works with Drupal 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Doesn’t have a user guide yet, but the module’s README does include some FAQs, and the project page includes a link to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to install and use the module
  • Number of open issues: 2, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 2 sites
• Module features and usage
  • When installed, the module adds a new taxonomy vocabulary to your site. You can add terms to this vocabulary to define sections by path
  • Users on the site will have a new field, where you can reference one or more of the section terms, granting the user access to edit any content with a path that matches the section
  • The module also includes a submodule called Content Access by Path Admin Content. When installed, users who go to the admin/content listing will only see content listed that they can edit, based on either the sections they’ve been assigned, or their ownership of the content.
  • Granting edit permissions to a “section” of the website is a common ask for site owners, so I’m excited that this module makes it easy to set that up. There are solutions in the contrib ecosystem based on taxonomy for access control, and back in episode #414 we talked about Access Policy as a very flexible way to grant edit permissions, but in my mind those all require more set-up, and may require an extra step during content creation to make sure the right access is available. Content Access by Path, along with something like the near-ubiquitous Pathauto, can make it pretty painless to set up and use section-specific edit permissions

Today we are talking about AI within Drupal, How AI can help, and Modules to use with guest Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover Augmentor AI as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/436

• Terminology
• IMF analysis
• Prompt engineering
• AI in Drupal
• Best way to try modules
• Best use of AI
• Other ways of integrating

• Augmentor AI
• Open AI
• Prompt Engineering: Get the Most From Your Drupal Site's AI Integration
• Terminology
  • NLP - work with text provided in a conversational format, understand the intended meaning, and provide a relevant response
  • AI - A subset of CS that aims to develop systems that can mimic human response, or automating sophisticated behavior
  • ML - subset of AI that aims to act without explicit guidance, by extrapolating from known data
  • Deep learning - a subset of ML which uses artificial neural networks with representational learning to develop and leverage their own means of classification and other feature detection
  • LLM - an AI algorithm that uses Deep Learning techniques to accomplish NLP tasks such as responding to unstructured user prompts. LLMs are trained on massive data sets, often gathered from the internet, but sometimes using more specialized data
  • Typically the AI interfaces our listeners are already using are based on an LLM, but the nature and recency of the data they’ve been trained on can vary widely. Recently Mike Miles created Drupal Droid, a GPT model specifically trained for Drupal developers, and you can find a demo of that in our YouTube channel
• Mike Miles Drupal Droid
• AI module list
• OpenAI Image
• Search API Pinecone
• TMGMT Translator OpenAI

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Augmentor AI

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a highly configurable way to integrate multiple AI services with your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2022 by murrayw of Morpht, though recent releases are by elonel
  • Versions available: 1.1.2 which works with Drupal 9.5 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was earlier this month
  • Documentation available
  • Number of open issues: 11, 3 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 82 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To use Augmentor AI, you need to define one or more “augmentor” configuration entities. An augmenter entity implements an augmentor type, which determines what AI service it can use, what configuration options it will have available, and so on.
  • The augmentor will define one or more “messages” that provide structure to the prompt that will be passed to the AI model in order to generate a response. It can also be configured in a variety of ways, such as how much randomness to use, a maximum response length, and more.
  • You can expose your augmentor(s) to content creators by adding a CKEditor button, or by adding fields to your site’s entity forms. For each field use can choose the widget to use, and how it should interact with any existing data in the field you want to target.
  • For example, you could have it generate a summary from your body field and have it automatically populate the summary field. Or, you can have it suggest tags, but the specialized widget renders each suggestion as a clickable element that will add the tag to a core tag field.
  • There are currently modules available to integrate Augmentor AI with ChatGPT, Google Cloud Vision, AWS AI, and more.

Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #435 UI Suite initiative.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/435

• Elevator Pitch
• What do you mean by implementing design systems
• Is this to thel themers or site builders
• What is the expected outcome
• The project page says initiative, but this is not on the community initiatives page, is this an intitiative
• How does this implement public design systems
• Does this work with Single Directory Components
• Youtube Channel
• Getting involved
• Roadmap
• Use cases
• Do you see this going into core

• UI Suite Initiative
• UI Suite YouTube
• UI Suite Slack

Pierre Dureau - LinkedIn pdureau

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted simple but accessible dropdown navigation on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Disclosure Menu
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2022 by Jay Huskins of Redfin Solutions
  • Versions available: 2.1.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent commit is less than a month ago
  • No Test coverage at this point
  • Documentation - via README.md
  • Number of open issues: 2, neither of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 29 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jay Huskins, with support from Redfin
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a new menu block that includes markup for disclosure buttons, that make it easier for users on assistive devices to navigate drop-down menus
  • Activating the button will toggle the visibility of nested menu items
  • Also includes ARIA labels to provide clarity around what the buttons do
  • Worth mentioning that Drupal’s Olivero theme also includes disclosure buttons in its mWe’ll also cover Disclosure Menu as our module of the week.
  • Guest Introenus, but there isn’t a straightforward way to pull the menus implemented there into your custom theme
  • Also had a write-up in the Drupal advent calendar we talked about last month, so listeners can also check that out if they want more information

Today we are talking about te show itself. We’ll also cover Autosave Form as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/434

• Update on the show
  • Guest hosts
  • MOTW Correspondent
  • Newsletter
• Sponsorship
• Open Collective
• Content
• New content in 2024
• Expanding team

• Open Collective

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted an autosave feature on your Drupal site’s forms, so content creators won’t lose their work if they accidentally close the window or lose power? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Autosave Form
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2016 by Hristo Chonov of 1x Internet, who is also one of the organizers of Drupal Dev Days 2024 in Burgas
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.4 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent comment less than 3 months ago
  • Test coverage
  • 38 open issues, 20 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 6,414 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Works by automatically saving the content of the current form every 60 seconds, though the time period is configurable
  • When a user opens a form, if an autosaved state exists for that form a dialog will be shown asking if they want to resume editing or discard any autosaved states
  • Once a form is submitted, any saved states will be automatically deleted
  • Notionally it should work with both content entity forms and config forms, but the majority of development and testing has been with entity forms in mind
  • The project page also mentions an issue with nested entity reference inline forms, and has links to relevant Drupal core issues
  • Worth noting that this module uses AJAX to save the states to the Drupal database, separate from entity revisions
  • If you want a solution that save form states into the browser’s localStorage instead, you can check out the Save Form State module, using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Masterclass book, How it’s different from other Drupal books, and why you need it on your bookshelf with author Adam Bergstein. We’ll also cover Dashboards as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/433

• What is Drupal 10 Masterclass about
• Who is this book for
• Why did you write the book
• Can you explain the subtitle a bit
• How does this differ from other recent Drupal books
• Can you tell us about the authoring experience
• What can our listeners do to make this book a success
• Do you think you’ll write another book
• Simplytest.me update

• Drupal 10 Masterclass: Build responsive Drupal applications to deliver custom and extensible digital experiences to users
• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman and Kevin Quillen
• Modernizing Drupal 10 theme development by Luca Lusso
• Modern Drupal by Selwyn Polit
• Rachel Lawson
• Mike Herchel

Adam Bergstein - @n3rdstein

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to add a dashboard to your Drupal site, to provide at-a-glance information to editors? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Dashboards with Layout Builder
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2019 by Erik Seifert of 1x Internet
  • Versions available: 2.0.8 and 2.1.6 versions available, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Test coverage
  • 13 open issues, 5 of which are bugs on th 2.1.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 1,878 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Allows for the creation of dashboards as exportable config entities, using Layout Builder to define the layout and placement of blocks
  • It’s possible to create unique dashboards per user
  • Out of the box you get a number of dashboards components to embed views, show recent errors, display content from RSS feeds, and more
  • Dashboard components are defined using a new plugin base, so you can also create custom components to meet the unique needs of your site
  • The dashboards are also optimized for use with Gin, which isn’t a surprise because 1x Internet is also a sponsor of the Gin admin theme. If your site is also using Gin then this module will provide a central dashboard that seamless integrate with the backend UI
  • If you’re looking to implement dashboards on your site, you can also look at Moderation Dashboard and Homebox as other options. The latter of those is even more widely used, but mostly by D7 sites. That said, drupal.org is one of those sites, so if your team is active on drupal.org then the interface will be very familiar
  • There is also a Dashboard Initiative that has been started by some core maintainers, so using one of these modules can set you up to weigh in on what the ideal state for the initiative might look like

Today we are talking about Portals, Community Websites, and Drupal with guest Ron Northcutt. We’ll also cover Private Message as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/432

• Why are you passionate about community sites
• Different types of portals you’ve worked on
• Common features
• Why is Drupal a great fit
• Why would you choose Drupal over a Saas or PaaS
• What is unique about each community
• How important is UX
• What common content models do you see
• Most important tip

• Lego sorting
  • https://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=709
  • https://brickarchitect.com/guide/bricks/
• PHPBB
• discourse
• Open Social
• Monday

Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

• Module name/project name:
  • Private Message
• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to include a full-fledged, ajaxified system for private messages between users on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2017 by Jaypan, a fellow Canadian, but the most recent release is by Lucas Hedding, who hails from Nicaragua, and is a prolific contrib maintainer in his own right
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.0-beta18 and 3.0.0 versions available, the latter of which works with D9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in Oct 2023
  • Number of open issues: 130, 4 of which are bugs on the 3.0.x branch
  • Test coverage
• Documentation: does have a handbook, though the pages seem to date back to 2017, so hopefully the installation and setup hasn’t changed too much since then
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 2,000 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
• Module features and usage
  • With the Private Message module installed, users on your site can have permissions-based access to send private messages to each other
  • Messages and threads are fieldable entities, and in general the module is made to be highly configurable, so you can tailor it to meet your site’s specific needs
  • That includes the frequency for asynchronous operations like loading new messages, which can be done without a full page refresh. There’s also a companion module to use Node.js for the asynchronous operations, to reduce load on both the browser and the server
  • That also allows for browser push notifications, or you can use the integration with the Message module to send notifications via email, SMS, and more, including aggregating the notifications into digests
  • Companies often have a dedicated messaging solution like Slack or Teams that they use internally, but this can be a good solution for an extranet or vendor portal, where the users may represent a variety of organizations
  • It’s also worth mentioning that both Private Message and Message are included in the Open Social distribution, so that could be a way to try out a preconfigured setup

On today’s show we share interviews we conducted with sponsors, speakers and attendees at New England Drupal Camp in November. Seventeen in all.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/431

Interviews with:

Michael Miles Nick Silverman Matt O’Bryant Ethan Aho Mike Anello Patrick Anderson Brian Perry Aubrey Sambor Brigitte Ayerves Valderas Chris Wells Richard Hood Chris Amato Ivan Stegic Philip Frilling Rod Martin Jacob Rockowitz Whitney Hess

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Stephen Cross - StephenCross.com

Today we are talking about Drupal in 2024, What we are looking forward to with Drupal 11, and the Drupal Advent Calendar with James Shields. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.2 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/430

• Advent calendar
• Selection process
• Popularity
• Next year
• Drupal features in 2024
• Drupal 11
  • Project browser
  • Recipes / Starter templates
  • Automated updates
  • Gitlab
  • Smaller core
• Predictions

• Drupal Advent Calendar
• A Plan for Drupal 11
• Drupal 10.2 announcement
• Change Records for 10.2.0
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3395582
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3395575
  • https://www.drupal.org/node/3369935
• Dev Days

James Shields - lostcarpark.com lostcarpark

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Drupal 10.2

• Improvements include
  • Technology Updates
    • PHP 8.3
    • Includes capabilities that previously required contrib projects
    • File name sanitization
    • A search filter on the permissions page
  • End Users
    • Performance enhancements and improved caching APIs
    • Support for PHP Fibers to accelerate handling things like asynchronous remote calls
  • Content Creators
    • Revision UI for media
    • Wider editing area in Claro on large screens
    • The return of “Show blocks” in CKEditor 5, missing until now
  • Site Builders
    • Field creation UI has a new, more visual interface, and an updated workflow
    • Block visibility can now be based on the HTTP response status, for example to make it visible or invisible on 404 or 403 responses
    • Tour module is no longer enabled by default for the Standard and Umami profiles
    • New “negated regular expression” operator for views filters (string/integer), to exclude results matching a provided pattern
  • Site Owners
    • Announcements Feed is now stable and included in the Standard profile
    • The functionality in the experimental Help Topics module has been merged into the main Help module, so the Help Topics module is now deprecated
    • New permission: Use help pages
  • Developers
    • A fairly sizable change is a move to use native PHP attributes instead of doctrine annotations to declare metadata for plugin classes. Work is already underway to get core code converted, and an issue has been opened to have rector do this conversion for contrib projects
    • A new DeprecationHelper::backwardsCompatibleCall() method to help write Drupal extensions that support multiple versions of core
    • A PerformanceTestBase is now in core, to support automated testing of performance metrics
    • A new #config_target property in ConfigFormBase to simplify creating configuration forms
    • Symfony mailer is now a composer dependency of core
    • New decimal primitive data type
    • Expanded configuration validation, Symfony autowiring support, HTML5 output from the HTML utility class is now default, and more
    • In addition to these and the features highlighted in the official announcement, there are three pages of change records for the 10.2.0 release, and we’ll include a link to those in the show notes

Today we are talking about the Drupal Association Board, Its Strategic Initiatives, and The Future of Drupal with guest Baddý Sonja Breidert. We’ll also cover Advent Calendar as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/429

• Former member of Board of Drupal Association
• What does the board do
• How does the board operate
• Are there term limits
• How does someone get on the board
• Strategic Initiatives
  • Innovation
  • Marketing
  • Fundraising
• Now that you are no longer on the board what’s next
• CEO of 1xInternet
• How did you get started with Drupal

• Try Drupal

Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xinternet.de/en baddysonja

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Advent Calendar

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to reveal content a day-at-a-time, in an interactive advent calendar? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created less than month ago in Nov 2023 by listener James Shields, whose drupal.org username is lostcarpark
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta3 release, which works with Drupal 10.1 and newer
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release made earlier today
  • Test coverage
  • Number of open issues: 5, 3 of which are bugs, but all but one are now marked as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 6 sites
• Module features and usage
  • James actually created a Drupal advent calendar a year ago, on his website lostcarpark.com. The idea was to showcase a new module every day, similar to advent calendars that provide a chocolate or a toy each day, hidden behind a cardboard door
  • James’ initial version displayed the content in a traditional calendar format, using the Calendar View module. What he really wanted, however, was a way to present the content using clickable doors to reveal new entries
  • The new Advent Calendar module provides a new view display, so you can configure what content type or other filters to apply, and use fields to specify what information to show
  • The module uses a Single Directory Component for display, hence the 10.1 requirement
  • There is also an “Advent Calendar Quickstart” submodule that sets up everything for you, including a content type, view, and 24 nodes to populate it for you
  • Each site visitor gets to “open” the door to new content as it is published each day. For authenticated users, which doors have been opened is stored as user data, and for anonymous users it’s kept in local storage via Javascript
  • In addition to this being an interesting module in its own right, the advent calendar James has created this year is also a community effort. He’s managed to enlist a wide variety of contributors to write about modules or aspects of the Drupal community that they’re passionate about, so it’s a great way to up your Drupal game. You can open a new door yourself every day at https://lostcarpark.com/advent-calendar-2023

Today we are talking about Being a Digital Nomad, common nomadic hurdles, and realized work/life benefits with guests Chad Hester and Shelley Goetz. We’ll also cover Flag as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/428

• What does digital nomad mean?
• When did you first start to think about this
• What was your physical journey like
• What do you do for work
• What is the biggest win
• How did this affect family dynamics
• What was the biggest gotcha
• Tips and tricks
• Long term plan
• Why not Europe or South America
• Question from Stephen: As a Patriots fan what are your thoughts on the 2023 season, is Bill Belichick staying or going

• The Flag module
• US-CA Nomads on Instagram
• US-CA Nomads on Flicker
• Chad on LinkedIn
• Chad’s website
• Chad’s d.o profile
• Shelley on LinkedIn
• Shelley on Instagram
• An off-grid (on Vancouver Island) youtube channel that inspires Chad and Shelley
• Snowshoe Fondue on Mt. Washington

Shelley Goetz - shelleygoetz Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Flag

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a simple way to let users bookmark, like, or even flag as inappropriate content on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: originally created in 2008 by quicksketch, who listeners may remember as the original author of Webform
  • Versions available: 7.x-3.9 and 8.x-4.0-beta4
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, but no commits in the last year
• Has a handbook, but it’s in the old documentation system
• Number of open issues: 675, 132 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • Over 38,000 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Recent releases by Berdir, who we recently mentioned as the maintainer of TMGMT in episode #426
• Module features and usage
  • The Flag module provides a flexible system that can reference any kind of entity, so content, users, comments and so on
  • When you create a flag type, you set the target entity type, and then you can optionally choose specific bundles that can be flagged
  • Flags can be per-user, like bookmarks, or global, meaning that they’re the same for everyone
  • Links to Flag or Unflag content or other entities can be displayed in a variety of ways: in a field, in entity links, as contextual links, and more
  • By default flag links are rendered as AJAX links that flag or unflag content without reloading the page, but you can configure them to display in various ways, including a links to a field entry form, because flag types are also fieldable
  • There is extensive views integration, so it’s easy to list flagged content, for example to show a user content they’ve flagged as their favorites. The ecosystem of modules around Flag includes one called Views Flag Refresh that can trigger a view to automatically update via AJAX as soon as any content in that view is flagged or unflagged
  • Not long ago I used Flag as part of a lightweight task management system within Drupal, and anyone wanting to try that out can install the Tasks module

On today’s show we are turning the tables and Nic and John will be interviewed by our guest host Melissa Bent. We’ll also cover Content Model Documentation as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/427

• What made you decide to start the podcast
• Who does what tasks
• The first episode was on May 30 2013. What do you know now that you wish you knew then
• When did the guest host start
• What has been your favorite episode
• How did you come to this format
• Where did the tagline come from
• What technology do you use in production
• The show is supported by multiple platforms, would you recommend this
• What advice would you give someone just starting

• GovCon Session for Content Model Documentation
• First Episode
• Three hundred
• The Night before DrupalCon
• Wade Wingler
• Jono Bacon
• Dries’ First Episode
• Needs Review Issue Queue
• Sustainability Guidelines
• A Website’s Carbon Footprint
• vdo.ninja
• kdenlive
• Audacity
• Patreon
• Youtube
• Libsyn
• Kid3
• Auphonic
• Midjourney
• Trello
• Hackmd.io

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Content Model & Site Documentation

• Brief description:
  • Have you wanted to make your Drupal site self-documenting directly within the admin UI? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2023
  • Versions available: 1.0.23, compatible with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release was a week ago
  • Test coverage
  • No official guide, but there was a recent talk about the module at GovCon, so you can watch that
  • Number of open issues: 43 open, 9 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 82 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Steve Wirt (swirt) who works for Civic Actions
• Module features and usage
  • Allows your Drupal site to generate its own documentation
  • Has fieldable Content Model Document entities that allow you to customize what data will be stored
  • Can optionally document things like your content types, taxonomies, block types, paragraph types, and more
  • Documentation elements can also be associated with parts of your site configuration, and they become available within the relevant parts of your admin UI. For example, if you add documentation for a specific content type, when a site builder goes into edit that content type they will see a link to the documentation as a tab
  • You can generate entity relationship diagrams using MermaidJS
  • Also includes a field search capability originally developed as a separate module by Matthieu Scarset, who was a guest on this show back in episode #298
  • Will also generate diagrams to illustrate your content workflows, showing the states defined and the transitions between them

Today we are talking about The Needs Review Queue Initiative, What it is, and How it’s helping to improve Drupal with guest Stephen Mustgrave. We’ll also cover Translation Management Tool as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/426

• Can you give an overview of Needs Review Issue Queue Initiative
• Is the bug smash initiative related to the needs review issue queue
• Is this the same as the needs review bot
• How many issues were in the Needs Review status when you started
• How many issues today
• How long did it take until it was manageable
• How long do items stay on average
• Who else is helping
• Let’s talk through the pagination heading level issue
• What help can the community provide
• How does someone get involved
• Do you think this helps with burnout for core committers
• What’s the future of the initiative

• Needs Review Queue Bot
• Needs Review Issue Queue
• Pagination heading level issue

Stephen Mustgrave - smustgrave

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Translation Management Tool (TMGMT)

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to automate the process of creating content translations on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2012
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.0-rc3 and 8.x-1.15, the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation
  • Number of open issues: 595, 139 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 8,766 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Berdir, a very prolific maintainer in his own right, who also supports well known projects like Search API, Token, Paragraphs, and many more
• Module features and usage
  • Provides a tool set for automating the process of creating translations for your site content, as well as strings used within the site like menus, interface text, and so on
  • Works with more than 30 translation service providers, including many that leverage human translators, but also AI-based services like DeepL and OpenAI
  • Also has a plugin system to determine what text needs to be translated, so it can be easily adapted to very custom needs
  • With the module installed that Translate tab on your nodes changes to have buttons to request a translation in each language
  • Once a translation has been requested, it will run through states like unprocessed, active, and finished
  • Also provides an option for Continuous Translation, where new and updated content is automatically submitted for translation
  • Allows for professional translation at scale, using whatever kind of service works best for your site
  • The need for robust translation capabilities is what originally got me started using Drupal, so it’s great to see that there are enterprise-grade options for sites that need to manage translations at scale

Today we are talking about the a new Drupal Book Modernizing Drupal 10 Theme Development, What’s new in Drupal 10 theming, and tools that can help speed up theming with guest Luca Lusso. We’ll also cover Admin Dialogs as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/425

• Why write a book about Drupal theming
• How does the book modernize theming
• Who is the book for
• Do you have to have a certain level of knowledge to start
• What are some new aspects of Drupal 10 that are covered in the book
• Does the book talk about:
  • Javascript frameworks
  • Native Web Components
• What tools outside of Drupal do you talk about
• How did you conduct your research
• Do you have plans to keep the github updated
• How long did it take to write the book
• Tech moves quickly, what is the shelf-life of the book
• Future editions
• Purchase from Amazon or Packt
• Translation
• Plans for another book

• Admin Dialog Blog
• Book github
• Buy the book

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

Jacob Rockowitz - @jrockowitz Admin Dialogs

• Brief description: (from the maintainer)
  • The Admin Dialogs module improves the UI by reducing the number of page loads. For example, instead of opening a delete confirmation page, the module will show the form in a dialog (modal) form.
  • https://www.chapterthree.com/blog/improve-drupal-admin-ui-new-admin-dialogs-module
• Brief history
  • How old: Created on May 2023
  • Versions available: 1.0.x stable release
  • Last release: 1.0.17 - July 12, 2023
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained? Yes
  • Number of open issues: 6
  • Test coverage
    • No test coverage
    • Module is fairly simple and easy to manually test
    • Code quality is very good
• Usage stats:
  • sites 150+
• Maintainer(s):
  • Minnur Yunusov (minnur)
  • https://www.drupal.org/u/minnur
  • https://www.minnur.com/
• Sponsor
  • Chapter Three
• Module features and usage
  • Comes with the ability to add modal or off-canvas dialogs to different links in Drupal.
  • Easy to use. Most features available after installing the module.
  • Adds controls dialog type for operation links like Edit, Delete etc.
  • Adds and controls dialog type for local tasks.
  • Adds and controls dialog types for local actions.
  • Ability to add dialogs via specified A tag paths.
  • Ability to add dialogs via specifying CSS selectors (classes and IDs).
  • Adds option to control delete button dialog.
  • You can add support for your modules by adding configs created in the module.
  • Experimental: Add loading spinner to form submit elements on form submit.
• Discussion
  • The module does one thing and does it really well
  • Require no initial configuration.
  • Worth reviewing common administration tasks for contributed modules and deciding if a modal dialogs or sidebar can improve the admin UX.

Today we are talking about the Web Sustainability Guidelines, How sustainability applies to the web, and how your website can be more sustainable with guests Mike Gifford and Andy Blum. We’ll also cover LB Plus as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/424

• What are the Web sustainability guidelines
• Do they only apply to environmental impact
• When we think about sustainability we think of funding, does WSG speak to that
• Why are the WSG important
• What is the best way to implement WSG
• How do the WSG’s apply to Drupal
• Have the WSG’s been finalized
• Are they open source
• How can someone get involved

• Web Sustainability Guidelines
• Carbon footprint of your website
• Eggcorns
• Andy’s blog post
• w3c/sustyweb
• Sustainable web design working group
• Green Web Foundation

Mike Gifford - mgifford.medium.com @mgifford

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Layout Builder Plus

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to make Layout Builder easier and more intuitive for content creators? There are a few modules that can help with that, but today we’re going to talk about one called Layout Builder Plus
• Brief history
  • How old: Originally created in Apr 2022
  • Versions available: 2.0.1 release, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release just a week ago
  • Number of open issues: 2, both bugs, but both marked as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • 9 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Tim Bozeman of Tag1
• Module features and usage
  • Provides an overhaul of the Layout Builder UI, to make it easier for content creators:
  • Show a curated list of promoted blocks with icons, with lesser-used blocks available in a separate tab
  • Once a block is placed it shows automatically generated content, instead of asking the user to fill out a form before they can see what it will look like
  • Editing the content of a block happens in an overlay instead of the settings tray, so it can use more of the screen
  • Moves the Save Layout and other action buttons to the bottom of the page
  • Also adds some nice capabilities to Layout Builder, including:
  • Drag and drop entire sections
  • Change the layout of an existing section, even if it has blocks in it
  • Clone and update existing blocks
  • Finally, it includes a submodule to integrate with the Section Library module, which allows for a section within a layout to be saved so it can be reused again and again
  • I’ll also note that this is a module nominated by one of our listeners in the #talkingdrupal channel of the Drupal slack workspace, so if there’s a module you’d like to hear about in this segment, drop us a note in there

Today we are talking about The Conflict Resolution Team, What they do, and Why they do it with guest Mark Casias. We’ll also cover Smart Trim as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/423

• What is the Conflict Resolution Team
• Why is the Conflict Resolution Team needed
• When / Why was the Conflict Resolution Team created
• What kinds of issues does the Conflict Resolution Team deal with
• Do you meet separately from discussing issues
• How do you handle burnout
• How does one become a member
• Why are you a member
• How do you submit an issue to the Conflict Resolution Team
• How many submissions do you get
• Do you have to include the Drupal Association
• Does the DA provide tools
• Does the Conflict Resolution Team need help
• Is there any specific training you look for
  • Code of conduct training
• Anything you would like to add

• Conflict Resolution Team

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Smart Trim

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to truncate provided user text in a more intelligent way than the “summary or trimmed” formatter in Drupal core? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: Originally created in Apr 2012
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.6 and 2.1.0 versions available, the latter compatible with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 74, 8 of which are active bugs against the 2.x branch
• Test coverage, using the new GitLab CI
• User guide for documentation
• Usage stats:
  • 66,919
• Maintainer(s):
  • Friends of the podcast, markie, ultimike, volkswagenchick
  • Module features and usage
  • Adds a variety of configuration options, in addition to the trim length:
  • Whether the length is characters or words
  • An optional suffix at the trim point e.g. ellipsis
  • Whether or not to add a more link after the trimmed text
  • Stripping HTML tags from the trimmed output
  • The ability to customize the output even more via twig template override
  • Because it works by providing a field formatter it works with entity display but also views, layout builder, and more
  • A module I’ve used many times myself and found extremely useful. I haven’t had a chance to try the latest release, but given the recent focus on UI improvements, documentation, and flexibility in the twig template it should be even better than I remember

Today we are talking about Commerce Kickstart, Commerce in General, and What’s new at Centarro with guest Ryan Szrama. We’ll also cover Navigation as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/422

• High level overview of commerce kickstart
• Is it a distribution
• Will it move to recipes
• Why use commerce directly over kickstart
• Does kickstart lend itself to a specific type of site
• Compare with Shopify
• Do you ever recommend Shopify
• Are there additional conditions or events being added
• Can people contribute to kickstart
• What is Centarro focused on now
• What is the state of headless

• Selling File Downloads and certificates through Drupal Commerce
• Commerce Kickstart
• Driesnote
• Methodical coffee

Ryan Szarma - ryanszrama.com rszrama

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Navigation

• Brief description:
  • Would you like to try out and give feedback on a proposed overhaul to how Drupal’s administration menu works? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: project created in 2004, but the namespace was taken over earlier this year as a place to work on the proposed new navigation in the contrib space
  • Versions available: No releases yet, so you need to clone the repo into your custom modules
• Maintainership
  • Very active development, commits in the past day
• Number of open issues:
  • 46, 14 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • Officially 1 site is using it, but not recommended for production anyway
• Maintainer(s):
  • Include Christina Chumillas, Sascha Eggenberger, Lauri Eskola, Mike Herschel, and more
• Module features and usage
  • At this point, really a prototype, trying to define what the user experience should be
  • Worth noting that the latest release for the Gin admin theme also includes this new updated navigation as an experimental feature that can be updated, but still best to leave feedback on the Navigation project
  • The main idea is that instead of having dropdowns that fly out for deeper level menu items, the navigation is in a sidebar, with menu items that expand to reveal child items when clicked
  • It’s worth noting that dropdown menus with multiple levels handled in flyouts are a known usability pain point, and are often cited by industry experts like Jakob Neilsen as something to avoid
  • There are still some usability issues to be thought through with this approach, for example there is no longer a way to reach the top page of a section or subsection, because clicking on the link shows or hides the child items instead
  • This was a subject of some very active discussions at DrupalCon Europe last week, so I thought it would be good to cover this week, so our listeners can add their voices

Today we are talking about The Future of Drupal article, What Challenges Drupal may have, and How we can overcome them together! with guest Ricardo Marcelino.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/421

• Can you describe the article this topic is based on
• Module percentages
• Drupal’s challenges
• Drupal’s unique selling proposition
• How can Drupal expand relevance
• Why is relevance important
• How does Drupal move forward
• What’s next for Drupal
• Do you think this is a natural change for a project like Drupal
• How do we ensure the future of Drupal

• The Future of Drupal
• Drupal Day Portugal Slides
• Dries note

Ricardo Marcelino - omibee.com rfmarcelino

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu (Next.js)[https://www.drupal.org/project/next]

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build a website with a React-based front end, but with lots of the robust and mature CMS capabilities that Drupal provides? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2021 by shadcn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Versions available:
  • 1.6.3 for Drupal 9 & 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, though it uses a Github repo as its place for collaboration, including issues
• Number of open issues:
  • 135 open, 12 of them bugs
• Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 1,249 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • shadcdn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Module features and usage:
  • For anyone not familiar with Next.js, it’s a React framework for building front-end applications that gives developers a number a number of useful capabilities, such as dynamic routing, performance optimizations, integrations, and more
  • The Next.js module for Drupal optimizes your Drupal backend for use as the content repository for a Next.js front end
  • It add functionality like headless preview of unpublished content, even across multiple front end apps
  • It also supports Incremental Site Regeneration, a best practice to ensure your front end site can serve static pages for the fastest possible delivery, but without the risk of serving stale content
  • Works with the JSON:API Menu Items and JSON:API Views Drupal modules to allow even more of your front end site to be managed within your Drupal backend
  • There’s even a Next.js Webform module that allows your Drupal site builder to create webforms, and have the React forms automatically created
  • There is also a specialized version of Next.js, a “next-drupal-basic-starter”, also maintained by shadcn, that helps to get your Next.js front end working with Drupal more quickly

Today we are talking about Same Page Preview, Why it’s needed, and When it might land in Drupal Core with our guest Chris Weber. We’ll also cover Type Tray as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/420

• Origin story
• What does same page preview do
• Who maintains the module
• Current state
• How does the module handle smaller screens
• Performance
• Caching concerns
• Core inclusion
• Roadmap
• How can people get involved
• Listener Question: Stephen 10+ years ago, I recall connecting to Drupal Coffee on Google+ hosted by you, this is when we started Talking Drupal. Am I remembering right?

• The Randomatics
  • https://www.facebook.com/therandomatics
  • https://soundcloud.com/therandomatics
• Pitchburg
• Getting it into core
• loom tool
• Talking Drupal #48 Overnight Website Challenge with Chris Weber
• Twin Cities Drupal talk about Same Page preview
• Loom videos showing progress:
  • Phase 1: https://www.loom.com/share/425c0abedaf448f486a0289a7121361d
  • Phase 2: https://www.loom.com/share/97fea8c3819a44aba0690aacb77f7a37
  • Phase 2.1: https://www.loom.com/share/04c5ced243314cdeb1a22e95b101b54e

Chris Weber - nerdery.com - cosmicdreams

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Type Tray

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to present a better, more organized version of the Content Add page, on a Drupal site with a large number of Content Types? There’s a module for that
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2021
• Versions available
  • 1.2.4 for D9.2+ & D10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release <3 mo ago
• Number of open issues:
  • 3, only 3 of which are bugs (2 have patches)
• Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 8,704 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created by marcoscano, along with a couple of co-maintainers, all of Lullabot
• Module features and usage
  • Allows a site builder to categorize the content types and present them in a list or grid view
  • Each content type can be a assigned a thumbnail and/or icon, to give content creators a visual idea of the options available to them, in addition to an extended description field
  • Also an ability to assign a “weight” to each content type, to control the order in which it will display, within its category
  • Also a Gin Type Tray module available to the Type tray look better when used with the Gin admin theme
  • Listeners may remember our discussion of the Schema.org Blueprints module back in episode. That project includes a schemadotorg_type_tray module to provide its own Type Tray integration

Today we are talking about Drupal 7 EOL, Backdrop CMS, and Upgrade strategy from Drupal 7 with guests Jen Lampton & Laryn Kragt Bakker. We’ll also cover Acquia Migrate: Accelerate as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/419

• When is Drupal 7 EoL
• If someone is on Drupal 7 what are their options
• If someone does not have the resources to upgrade to Drupal 10 what can they do
• Can someone stay on Drupal 7 after EoL
• What is Backdrop CMS
• Listener question - James: Some people have mentioned that Backdrop has changed significantly since forking, does this affect upgrading from drupal 7
• Listener question - James: Will there be another fork
• How can Backdrop help people get off of Drupal 7
• Tell us a bit about Backdrop’s annual online event
• Is Backdrop negatively affecting Drupal 10 adoption
• How does someone get involved with Backdrop
• What are some big features on the Backdrop roadmap

• Drupal 7 EOL
• Backdrop CMS
• How to get involved
• GitHub
• Zulip
• Flightpath CLI
• compare d7 -> d10 vs d7 -> backdrop
  • https://backdropcms.org/news/why-we-moved-two-stanford-websites-to-backdrop-cms
  • https://atendesigngroup.com/articles/making-case-drupal-7-backdrop-cms-upgrade
• Drupal 7 soft landing

Laryn Kragt Bakker - atendesigngroup.com - laryn

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Acquia Migrate: Accelerate

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to add a layer of automation to Drupal’s migrate API, to simplify the process of migrating content and site architecture from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in July 2020 by Aaron Winborn-award winner webchick
• Versions available:
  • 1.8.0 release which works with Drupal 9
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained - latest release, its first as open source, was in the last week
• Number of open issues:
  • 3 issues, none of which are bugs, and all labeled as fixed
• Usage stats:
  • None, officially
• Maintainer(s):
  • Current release by Wim Leers, a longtime Drupal contributor and core subsystem maintainer
• Module features and usage
  • The goal of Migrate Accelerate is to make Drupal core’s migrate API something that can be used by less technical users to migrate a Drupal 7 site to a modern version of Drupal
  • Relies on an Acquia CLI command to analyze your Drupal 7 site, so it can generate a composer.json file using an existing matrix of hundreds mappings from legacy modules to modern Drupal equivalents, including patches
  • That composer file becomes the basis for your migrated site, into which it will begin to migrate your content architecture
  • It provides a dashboard that lists out the various kinds of content found on the origin site, with an ability to control the order in which the migrations will be performed
  • At any point it’s possible to see a live preview the content that’s been migrated, within the same UI
  • There’s also a drush command to trigger the same process, which actually runs more efficiently but still allows for live preview
  • If you want to get an estimate on how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically, there is also a Flightpath report you can generate (using a drush command) which is an HTML file that summarizes how much of your Drupal 7 site can be migrated automatically
  • Migrate Accelerate used to be available only to Acquia customers and partners, but with this new release anyone in the community can use it to help them migrate their Drupal 7 site forward

Today we are talking about Inclusive Hiring Practices, Disability Employment Awareness Month, and tips to improve your hiring practices with our guest Donna Bungard. We’ll also cover Organigrams as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/418

• When is National Disability Awareness Month
• What is the definition of Inclusive in this context
• Why are inclusive hiring practices important
• Have organizations been doing well with this
• What is disclosure and how can it impact people
• What can organizations do to be more inclusive
• What tools can be used to improve hiring practices
• Whose responsibility is it to address issues
• Any closing thoughts

National Disability Employment Awareness Month Snow shovel cartoon Curb-cut effect

Race after technology Center for accessible technology Apple assistive tech

Donna Bungard - @dbungard

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Organigrams

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed a way to define and display an org chart on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2016 by PatrickScheffer
  • Versions available: 7.x-1.3, 8.x-1.3, and 8.x-2.3 versions, the last two of which can be used with Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Maintenance fixes only
• Number of open issues:
  • 2 issues, neither are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 377 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module works by extending core’s taxonomy hierarchy management
  • You can organize who reports to who with a simple drag-and-drop, the same as any taxonomy hierarchy. For anyone who hasn’t used those, it would be basically the same as managing a menu structure
  • Once created, an organigram can be viewed as a dedicated page, a block, and a token
  • The 2.x branch uses Flexbox to achieve a CSS-only presentation that removes the need for any Javascript
  • Appears to have been built to serve the needs of the Dutch House of Representatives
  • I haven’t tested it, but I suspect that for a site with a very large organigram they need to build, tools like Client Side Hierarchical Select, built to make managing large taxonomies easier, are likely to work with Organigrams too

Today we are talking about The Recipes Initiative, the future of install profiles, if distros are still a thing, and answering a bunch of listener questions with our guest Jim Birch. We’ll also cover Quick Links Kit as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/417

• What are recipes
• How do you use recipes
• Is it a module, configuration or something else
• How do recipes compare to install profiles
• Are you stuck with them
• What happens if the config is changed
• Are there namespace collisions
• How do recipes compare with Distributions
• Can you include content
• Listener James: Can recipes uninstall modules
• Can we use recipes now
• When will recipes be in core
• Can recipes be used by tests
• Listener Andy: Can recipes and startkits interact
• Can themes require recipes
• Listener Matthieu: How do recipes compare with Symfony recipes
• Listener James: How easy will it be to make custom recipes
• Listener Matthieu: Should contrib maintainers be watching recipes
• How can we get involved

• Jim’s Design 4 Drupal Talk Recipes
• Recipes Drupal Project Page
• Strategic Initiative Page
• Cioppino
• php core/scripts/drupal recipe PATH/TO/RECIPE
• config actions issue
• infrastructure project meeting thread
• Kevin Quillen blog post - Create Recipes

Jim Birch - @jimbirch

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Jen Lampton - jenlampton.com - jenlampton

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Quick Links Kit

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever needed to add a set of quick links, essentially visual navigation prompts, to the home page or section pages of your Drupal site?
  • Quick Links Kit (different from Quicklink module created by last week’s guest, Mike Herschel)
• Brief history
  • How old: I created in Apr 2021
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.6 that supports Drupal 8, 9, and 10, and 2.0.1 that supports only D10
• Maintainership
  • Sporadically maintained, but a pretty simple module
• Number of open issues:
  • 1, and it’s not a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 1 site
• Maintainer(s):
  • Me!
• Module features and usage
  • The module is really just a set of configuration, with an optional submodule that sets everything up, including the placement of the block on the home page, for sites using Olivero as their theme, so it’s perfect for a fresh install of Drupal
  • It allows for SVG icons to be set for each link, and sets their fill to inherit from the link style
  • The links can be created and managed without leaving the page on which they’re used, by using the settings tray, though it would be a quick configuration change to use a modal or a separate page instead, if preferred.
  • The 2.0 version also makes use of Drupal 10’s new responsive grid views display, so if you’ve wanting to try that out, this is an easy way to get started
  • I thought this module was appropriate for today’s episode because it’s an example of a module that will be a recipe once the infrastructure for them is ready. That said, the Olivero submodule does currently contain a little CSS to improve the display of the links, but that could easily be copied into your site’s custom theme.

On today’s show we are talking about Single Directory Components in Drupal, How they differ from Web Components, and what are their benefits with guest Mateu Bosch & Mike Herchel. We’ll also cover Component Libraries: Theme Server as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/416

• What are Single Directory Components?
• Where did the idea of adding Single Directory Components to Drupal come from?
• Where does support for this stand in Drupal Core? Fully supported? Still need a contrib module?
• How do they differ from Web Components? (Mike will take this one)
• How does Single Directory Components make Drupal Theme development easier?
• What is the point of creating a schema for an SDC?
• Can modules or themes override SDCs? How?
• Can SDC be integrated into component library systems like Storybook? How?
• Any other helpful contrib modules that enhance SDCs?
• Does this at all help a headless?
• How can someone get involved or help contribute to Single Directory Components?

Single Directory Components https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc JSON Schema https://json-schema.org/ SDC Display https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_display SDC Styleguide https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_styleguide Cl Devel https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_devel CL Server https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_server CL Generator https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_generator SDC Documentation https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3345922 Mike’s blog https://herchel.com/ SDC Slack Channel (Components channel in Drupal Slack) #components https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4EDNHFGS Drupal Board Elections https://www.drupal.org/association/board/elections

Mike Herchel - herchel.com @mikeherchel Mateu Bosch - mateuaguilo.com

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Component Libraries: Theme Server

This module lets you use component libraries, like Storybook, in your Drupal project, without Twig.js!

Today we are talking about Front End Performance, Common Front End Issues, and Ways to test and fix said issues with guest Andy Blum. We’ll also cover Webp Fallback Image as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/415

• How do we break down front end performance
• How do we measure front end performance
• What are web vitals
  • Standard, objective measurements
  • First/Largest contentful paint
  • Cumulative layout shift
  • Time to Interactive/First Input Delay/Time To Next Paint/Total Blocking Time
• What are some common client side performance problems
  • “Flickering”
  • “Slow loading”
  • Image size/resolution issues
  • Render-blocking resources
  • Screen jitters
  • Memory leaks
  • Memory Bloat
• How do tracking scripts affect performance
• Tools to help identify and resolve
• Drupal front end performance

• Talking Drupal #373 - Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web
• Web Vitals
• Orders of magnitude 100 - 1000 ms
• Orders of 10 source
  • Instant
  • Near instant
  • Subsequent
• Talking Drupal #368 - Image Optimization
• MDN - How Browsers work
• Prefetch
• Web Page Test
• Front End Performance in Drupal
• architecture.lullabot.com article

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu WebP fallback image

• Brief description:
  • Do you want your Drupal site to generate WebP images in the most optimal way? There are a number of modules for that, today we’re going to talk about…
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jun 2022 by pedrop
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 versions available, both of which support Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3, 2 of which are bugs
• Has test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 252 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Most recent release is by dj1999
• Module features and usage
  • Anyone using testing tools like Lighthouse will have seen suggestions to use modern image formats like WebP, and with good reason. They allow for much smaller image files at the same quality, which means a better user experience and less bandwidth used by both the server and the visitor. WebP is a natural choice because it enjoys over 95% browser support, but many sites still care about that other 5%
  • Drupal core added its own support for webp in 9.2, but without a fallback image, so browsers that don’t have WebP support have been out of luck
  • Contrib modules have allowed for generating a webp image and a jpeg fallback, to allow for universal support. Typically they have worked by creating the WebP variant from the output of a core image style, so after an image has been saved as something like a jpeg. That means the resulting WebP can’t compress as well, and can show compression artifacts
  • WebP Fallback Image is different because it allows Drupal core to generate the WebP image from the source file, and then creates the jpeg fallback.
  • Also worth noting that this module only creates the jpeg fallback when it’s requested, so it doesn’t add to the storage of your website unless it’s needed

Today we are talking about The Future of Content Management, What we see for Drupal in the future, and How AI might factor in with guest John Doyle. We’ll also cover Access Policy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/414

• Digital Polygon
• Content Management can mean many things, what is our definition
• What factors contribute to the changes moving to a more centralized model
• How do organizations manage content for different channels
• Where do design systems collide with content management
• Why is Drupal a good fit
• How does headless fit in
• Maintaining content architecture long term
• Drupal adaptations over the next 5 years

• Talking Drupal #409 - Data Lakes
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• Flexible Permissions

John Doyle - digitalpolygon.com _doyle_

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Access Policy

• Brief description:
  • Does your Drupal site need a flexible way to manage access to content? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2022
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta1, works with D9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, none of which are bugs
• Test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 12 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • partdigital
• Module features and usage
  • Allows a site builder to define different policies that can be used to manage content access or editing capabilities based on various factors, all within the Drupal UI
  • Criteria can include field values of the content, field values on the current user’s profile, the time of day, and more
  • The policy can restrict access, for example view acces to only selected people or people with a certain role or field value on their profile. I
  • Once defined, policies can be assigned manually, or automatically applied based on configurable selection criteria
  • The project page describes this as an Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) architecture, which complements Drupal core’s Role Based Access Control that our listeners are probably familiar with
  • I used it for the first recently, and found that given the power and flexibility the module provides, it’s great that it has in-depth documentation
  • I filed a couple of issues (technically half of the open issues) and partdigital was very responsive
  • The module does also provide an API for defining your own policy type, access rules, rule widgets, and more. So if you need a setup even more custom that what Access Policy can provide out of the box, it’s likely you can extend it to meet your individual use case

On today’s show we are talking about The Drupal Coffee Exchange, How it got started, and How it keeps going with guest AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/413

• What’s new with AmyJune
• What is the Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How did it start
• Who started it
• Where was the first Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How do you participate
  • Live
  • Mail
• How is it live
• Does it have to be ground or whole bean
• Listener question: Stephen - How can it be added to a camp
• What was your favorite coffee received
• What was your favorite coffee given
• John’s first experience
• Brick of Shame
• When is the next Coffee Exchange
• Where is the schedule
• Favorite type of coffee

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• Join the Quarterly Coffee Exchange:
• Coffee Exchange Slack
  • #coffee-exchange
• Equator Coffee
• Spinn Coffee Maker
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• Vertigo
• Dave’s Coffee
• Link to Brian Perry’s Video
  • https://drupal.slack.com/files/U24L61M26/F03DEUBDPJN/image_from_ios.jpg
• https://www.brickofsha.me/
• Next stops for the Coffee Exchange:
  • DrupalCon Lille
  • Your camp!
• Drupal Coffee Exchange Social
  • Twitter @DrupalCoffee
  • Mastadon https://drupal.community/@DrupalCoffee
  • Hashtag: #DrupalCoffeeExchange

AmyJune Hineline - volkswagenchick

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Coffee

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to quickly search your Drupal admin UI for the specific page you need to get to? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2011
  • Covered as MOTW back in episode #45
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.3 (D9 & 10), 7.x-2.3
• Maintainership
  • Number of open issues: 53 open, 13 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
  • Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 31,000 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Michaelmol, who appears to have created the module in his first year on drupal.org, now almost 13 years ago
• Module features and usage
  • With a simple keystroke, (option-d or alt-d) you can start your search, and then see suggestions as you type
  • Can use the arrow keys to move between suggestions
  • Listeners who have used Mac apps like Alfred or Spotlight will be familiar with the experience
  • A very fast way to move between different places in your Drupal admin
  • Also includes :add as a quick way to add content of a specific type
  • Provides a hook you can use to define your own commands
  • There is a Coffee Extras module that adds more commands, but it doesn’t work with Drupal 10 and is marked as no longer developed
  • Also worth noting that the Gin admin theme comes with built-in optimization and formatting for Coffee, so you can enjoy Gin and Coffee together

Today we are talking about Lando, the release cycle, and Lando 4.0 with our guest Aaron Feledy.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/412

• About Aaron
• What is Lando
• Best type of development for Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - I Recently switched to ddev for Mutagen, will Lando support that in the future
• Release schedule
• Development process
• Favorite features
• When is 4.0 and what is in it
• Best reasons to choose Lando
• Adoption rate of Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - Nic switched from Lando to DDEV, why and what features would he like to see in Lando to go back
• Listener Q: Matthieu - I use Lando and I am trying to convince coworkers to use it as well, any advice

• Lando
• Roadmap
• Lando Docs

Aaron Feledy lando.dev - Arrow

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Workflow Participants

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to assign moderated content to specific users to edit or approve it before publishing? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2017
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.6 (D8 & D9), 3.0.0-alpha1 (D9 & D10)
• Maintainership
  • Seeking a new maintainer
• Number of open issues:
  • 17 open, 3 of which are bugs
• Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 9 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jheadstrom, who maintains his own stable of modules, including a number in the Message stack
• Module features and usage
  • Creates a new tab on nodes, on which a content creator (or anyone with the necessary permission) can assign one or more editors or reviewers
  • Can specifically designate which roles can be editors or reviewers
  • Editors have the ability to make changes and transition content between states, while reviewers can only move between states
  • For each transition in your workflow, can specify if editors and/or approvers are able to perform the transition
  • Can optionally send a notification email to workflow participants as they are added to a piece of content
  • I used to have a boss who liked to say “The surest way to starve a dog is to put two people in charge of feeding it”, so the idea of specifically assigning individuals to individual pieces of content is potentially very powerful

Today we are talking about D.o Issue Etiquette with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/411

• Episode 361 Credit
• Most recent changes
• AI
• How should project maintainers respond
• How should the community respond
• Consequences
• Who developed the policy
• Who is responsible for enforcement
• How do these policies help maintainers
• Anything missing
• Future updates

• Talking Drupal #361 - Drupal Credit System
• Issue Etiquette
• Abuse of the Credit System
• Unhelpful comments
• Site moderator queue
• CWG issues
• Introduction to Contribution Best Practices for Organizations
• Slack Channel #contribution-recognition-feedback
• Drupal Association Membership

Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a simple way to view and store information about the overall health of your Drupal website? There’s a module for that!
• Module name/project name:
  • Site
• How old:
  • Project originally created in Sep 2007, current project looking like it took over the namespacex in June 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.10.0-alpha11 works with D8 and above
• Maintainership
  • Currently very actively maintained, last release was in the past couple of weeks
• Does not have issue enabled, project page says to open issues against ox project, which currently has no open issues
• Usage stats:
  • 3 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jon Pugh, a founding member of the Aegir project, among many others
• Module features and usage
  • The Site module stores information about the health of your site in a fieldable, revisionable entity
  • Provides a detailed history of the state of your site, including changes to configuration with a log of who changed what, where
  • Will include data on Drupal and PHP version, Git information, and more
  • Health can be based on the core Status report, the Site Audit module report, or a custom SiteState plugin
  • Can display an overall status indicator in the toolbar, so as a site owner or maintainer you don’t have to go to the Site Status page to see it
  • That page will display more detailed information, including the “reason” for the current status, the site’s history, and more
  • Integrates with the Site Manager module (also by Jon Pugh) which provides a UI for monitoring and managing a portfolio of Drupal sites
  • You can try out Site and Site Manager as part of the Operations project (machine name ox) as a Lando-based local setup of four sites, of which one provides a dashboard for the other three

Today we are talking about This and That with our Talking Drupal hosts.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/410

• Module Builder
• Drupal 10.2
  • Field UI / Admin UX
• Augmentor
• State API
• main / 11.x
• Changes to layout builder

• Module Builder Session at Drupal Dev Days
• Driesnote
• Augmentor
• AI
• Core 11.x/main branching
• Layout Builder

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Responsive Theme Preview

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to give content creators the power to preview how their posts will look on mobile devices, even before publishing them? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2013
  • Versions available: 2.1.1 for D9 & D10, 8.x-1.1 for D8 & D9
• Maintainership
  • Officially maintenance fixes only, but the last release was in the past week
  • Number of open issues: 21, only 2 of which are bugs on the 2.x branch
  • Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 8,258 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Last couple of releases by Rajeshreeputra, but has a team of maintainers
• Module features and usage
  • Adds a dropdown to the secondary toolbar to select a device whose display resolution you want to preview for the current page
  • Preview launches in a modal overlay, and can be rotated, to see the landscape view
  • The list of devices can be configured to keep up with the most popular devices as they change over time, including phones and tablets
  • If you’re not using the admin toolbar, also offers a block to access the preview links
  • Not a perfect representation of how the page will look on a mobile device, but a useful way to see a quick approximation of how a page will look on different screen sizes

Today we are talking about Data Lakes with Melissa Bent & April Sides.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/409

• What is a data lake
• Does it have to be NoSQL
• How do organizations use data lake
• How does RedHat use the data lake
• How do you maintain it
• How do you make changes to the data lake
• Who manages Mongo
• How big does it have to be to be considered a data lake
• Why not Solr
• What Drupal modules
• Communication of changes
• Gotchas?

• Create an Animated GIF From Video On A Mac
• Drupal modules
  • External data source
  • Allow Only One
  • Pattern Kit
  • Search api
  • Mongodb
  • Entity Browser
  • Mongodb Data Lake (Indexing module)
• Presentation
• Where is this used?
  • https://access.redhat.com/products
  • https://developers.redhat.com/learn
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/learn
• Rendered issue
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka April Sides - weekbeforenext

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com johnpicozzi Tim Plunkett - timplunkett

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Tagify

• Brief description:
  • Provides an entity reference widget that’s more user friendly: visually styles as tags (without showing the reference ID), drag to sort, and more
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.19, which works wth Drupal >8.8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 177 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • gxleano (David Galeano), who I got to meet in person at Drupal Dev Days
• Module features and usage
  • Tagify is a popular JS library, so this module is a Drupal integration for that
  • Features in the module include deactivating labels when the field’s max number of entries has been reached, allowing the creation of new tags when the field has been configured to allow that, and so on
  • Will automatically disallow duplicate tags
  • Includes a User List submodule specifically for user reference fields, which also shows the user’s profile pic in the tag
  • Project page has animated GIFs that demonstrate how many of these features work
  • A module I started using on my own blog, nice and simple UX. I could see the drag to sort be really useful, for example if you wanted the first term reference to be used in a pathauto pattern

Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/408

• Tell us about yourself Tim
• Why Drupal
• What perspective do you bring
• Strategic plan
• Leadership
• Measurements
• Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
• Where will the DA be in 5 years
• Will Drupal be around in 20 years
• Favorite aspect of the strategic plan

• Director of Philanthropy
• Burnout
• Pitch-burgh
• Alex Moreno
• New Core Product Manager
  • Lauri Eskola (lauriii)
• Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
  • Jacob Redding
    • March 2010 - February 2013
    • ~3 years
  • Holly Ross
    • February 2013 - May 2016
    • 3 years 3 months
  • Megan Sanicki
    • May 2016 - September 2018
    • 1½ years
  • (interim) Tim Lehnen
    • September 2018 - June 2019
    • 9 months
  • Heather Rocker
    • June 2019 - March 2022
    • 2 years 9 months
  • (interim) Angie Sabin
    • March 2022 - October 2022
    • 8 months
  • Tim Doyle
    • October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
    • 9 months
  • As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured

Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu ActivityPub

• Brief description:
  • Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2019
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
• Actively maintained
• Minimally maintained
• Number of open issues:
  • 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
• Usage stats:
  • 11 sites using it according to drupal.org
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
• Module features and usage
  • Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
  • Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
  • At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
  • Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
  • Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
  • There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities