Talking Drupal #320 - Drupal 8 End of Life

Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life with Gábor Hojtsy.

TalkingDrupal.com/320

Topics

• John - NEDCamp is in two weeks
• April - Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year
• Gábor - Thinking of all versions of Drupal
• Nic - Vacation was great - visited Salem
• What End of Life (EoL) means
• Statistics on number of sites
• Why D8 EoL is before D7
• What can people do to continue using D8
• Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the platform
• Improvements to the process
• Process expected for D9 and D10
• D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption
• Expected differences with D7 EoL
• Current Projects
• Contributions
• Next big thing
• Core committer experience over the years
• Initiative lead, lead
• Merge request support with gitlab
• Making core committer’s life easier

Resources

• New England Drupal Camp
• Old versions of Drupal
• FGM getting it working on newer php
• https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal
• Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 - 8
• Drupal Usage
• Drupal Upgrade Status
• Drupal 9 Deprecation
• Drupal 10 Deprecation
• Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net
• Multi-core compatibility
• Project Update Bot
• Lenient Composer Facade
• Talking Drupal #312 - DrupalPod
• Closure of the multilingual initiative
  • (over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)
• Last page of commit history
• First contribution - contrib
  • https://git.drupalcode.org/project/bbcode/-/commit/34e3c35
• First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log --reverse --grep “Gabor” | less

commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000 - Added 'escape HTML' option to the filters. Patch by Gabor Hojtsy. commit 069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000 - More translation fixes for the menu items. Patch by Gabor. commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000 - Translation improvements for the block module help. Patch by Gabor. commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7 Author: Dries Buytaert Date: Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000 - Made sure non US-ASCII mails are sent out properly. Patch by Gabor. TODO: rename user_mail() to drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc. Other modules, such as the project module, should use this as well or they risk to send out /invalid/ mails. Guests

Gábor Hojtsy - www.hojtsy.hu @gaborhojtsy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi April Sides - @weekbeforenext

MOTW

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