Evolution of Drupal and the Drupal community
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The document discusses a DRUPAL development sprint update, highlighting progress on various critical issues and patches for Drupal 8. There are over 1 million live Drupal sites and significant user and developer growth since 2005, alongside discussions on improvements from past versions. The document emphasizes the need for effective governance and community involvement to ensure Drupal's future success and outlines features of Drupal 8, including mobile support and improved authoring experience.
Evolution of Drupal and the Drupal community
- 2. what's happening? • Sprints: D8 Cri.cals, Performance, Front-‐End, Documenta.on, Mutlilingual, Search API, Rules, Commerce, others? • Over half (26) of D8 cri.cal issues updated, 5 fixed so far • 84 total patches commiNed, 134 (known) issues being worked on • Issue tag: "drupaldevdays" or (for the cri.cal and performance sprint) "D8 Accelerate Dev Days"
- 3. 42 release blockers leG! hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐8.0/get-‐involved
- 4. THE EVOLUTION OF DRUPAL AND THE DRUPAL COMMUNITY Angie "webchick" Byron April 14, 2015
- 5. About me
- 6. it's 2015.
- 7. Drupal has… • 1,127,761 live sites that we know about • 1,168,980 people in 229 countries speaking 180 languages • 37,930 of them are developers • 30,276 modules, 2,128 themes, 930 distribu.ons • 2,782 contributors to Drupal 8 so far • Hundreds of Drupal books, 1000s of documenta.on pages
- 8. i started in 2005.
- 9. Drupal had… • A couple hundred live sites that we knew about (by word of mouth, since there was no Update Status) • Around 20,000 people; a couple hundred were developers • A couple hundred modules, a couple dozen themes (all of them ugly), distribu.ons weren't invented yet • 50 core contributors • Zero Drupal books; en.re handbook was about 100 pages
- 10. how did we get here?
- 11. and how do we ensure we'll sVll be here in 2025?
- 13. google summer of code
- 14. the server crash
- 16. in 48 hours, raised over $10,000!(Plus a $4,000 server from Sun and hos.ng offer from OSL.)
- 17. drupalcon amsterdam (the first one!)
- 19. drupal 4.7.0 May 1, 2006
- 20. big drupal 4.7.0 features • AJAX • Collapsible fieldsets • Free tagging • New XML-‐RPC library • Form API • Updated documentaVon for all modules ;) hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐4.7.0
- 21. xml-‐rpc: the origin of drupal island hNp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088
- 22. form api: drupal's first BIG, scary api change https://www.drupal.org/node/29465
- 27. big drupal 5.0 features • Web-‐based installer • Usability improvements • New theme (Garland/Minnelli) • jQuery hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐5.0
- 29. Original Mission • Infrastructure • Money • Promo.on • NOT influence on the project itself
- 30. sVll fresh in mind…
- 31. state of drupal survey hNp://buytaert.net/state-‐of-‐drupal-‐presenta.on-‐august-‐2008
- 32. most desired drupal project improvements
- 33. most desired drupal project improvements 7 8 7 8 7 8 8 7 8 7 87 7
- 34. most desired drupal.org improvements
- 35. most desired drupal.org improvements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ R ✓ R R R
- 38. big drupal 6.0 features • Mul.lingual • New theme system (.tpl.php files) • Improved security and performance • Drag-‐and-‐Drop hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐6.0
- 40. just a sampling… • What takes a Drupal person 30 seconds to *do* might take a new user 30 minutes to *find*. • Lots of confusion on front-‐end/back-‐end separa.on: where am I? Is this what I see, or my users see? • Confusing terminology • Page vs. Story? Create content vs. content type • Collapsible fieldsets = goNa click 'em all! hNps://www.drupal.org/node/1175694
- 41. d7ux
- 42. qa (before) • *click* • *click* • *click* • *click* • *click* • *click*
- 46. drupal 7.0January 4, 2011 hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐7.0
- 47. big drupal 7.0 features hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐7.0 • Ease of use • En..es / Fields • Image management in core • Accessibility • Automated tes.ng • DBTNG
- 48. 326 parVes in 96 countries!
- 49. cvs => git migraVon
- 50. 2011-‐2015 growing up and geong off the island
- 52. major findings • Content crea.on/orienta.on problems from D6 fixed! • Now, the next layer of the onion… • Content = content, regardless of where it is • People want edit in place and previews of everything • If users end up on Drupal.org, they are hosed. :P
- 53. state of drupal survey (v2) hNp://buytaert.net/state-‐of-‐drupal-‐presenta.on-‐august-‐2011
- 55. a shiG in the "drupal economy"
- 56. a "killer drupal 8 release"
- 59. a "killer drupal 8 release" ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
- 60. "geong off the island" Composer Services Components PSR-4 OOP Twig YAML
- 61. "geong off the island"
- 62. drupalci: next generaVon testbot hNps://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci
- 63. evolving drupal's governance: do-‐ocracy The things that get done are the things someone actually does.
- 64. challenges • Lack of clear decision-‐making leads to frustra.on; appears "cliquish" to "outsiders." • Greatly favors those with a tremendous amount of free .me on their hands; terrible for diversity • Oren "he/she who yells the loudest wins"; can shut down good ideas by people who don't want to engage • If no one cares about a thing (or cares enough to fight a baNle), it doesn't get done. • "Bus factor" = burnout; key doers feel "trapped" in roles
- 65. soluVon: augment do-‐ocracy with formal governance drupal.org sorware working group drupal.org infrastructure working group drupal.org content working group hNps://www.drupal.org/governance licensing working group branding and marke.ng commiNee community working group technical working group drupal core documenta.on working group security working group
- 66. drupal core governance performance hNps://www.drupal.org/node/2457875 product managers release managers framework managers core commiNers topic maintainers accessibility usability documenta.on tes.ng subsystem maintainers ini.a.ve coordinators core contributors project lead
- 67. benefits • Focus on strategy vs. tac.cs • More transparent decision-‐making process • Clear points of escala.on in case of conflict • Improve "bus factor" by providing support for key roles
- 68. example: project applicaVon review process revamp hNps://www.drupal.org/node/2453587 • Deploy automated code scanning tools for all projects • All users create sandboxes first, get full project when scan passes (non-‐veNed limited to one full project) • Non-‐veNed users can request veNed status in issue queue once full module passes scans • Code review scaled back to licensing, security, or major API usage problems only.
- 69. 2015+? the bright, shiny future
- 71. big drupal 8.0.0 features hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐8.0 • Mobile • Mul.lingual • Authoring experience • Views • More field types • Configura.on management • Twig • HTML5 • OOP • Web services
- 72. one MILLION parVes? ;) 8
- 73. semanVc versioning • New feature releases of Drupal 8 every 6 months • Backwards compa.bility preserved! • Core devs, contrib devs, site builders working on same code base • Drupal 9? Not un.l there's enough done to warrant breaking BC
- 74. will we see the killer d8 release in 8.1.0? 8.2.0? ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ? ? ? some other awesome thing?
- 75. *you* decide! :)
- 76. one final note…
- 78. what are we funding? • Performance improvements • Upgrade path • Security fixes • Targeted sprints • Testbot moderniza.on • Awesome core contributors! hNp://webchick.net/d8accelerate-‐deep-‐dive
- 79. why? • Most core contribu.on done on volunteer .me • D8 currently in "bug fix slog"; fun stuff is already done • Contributors funded through D8 accelerate don't need to find D7 work • Targeted sponsorship like this also got D6, D7 out the door, just less transparently hNp://webchick.net/d8accelerate-‐deep-‐dive
- 81. thanks. :)