evolution of drupal and the drupal community
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#DRUPALDEVDAYS SPRINT UPDATE
(DAY 3)
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"
42 release blockers leG!
hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐8.0/get-‐involved
THE EVOLUTION OF DRUPAL AND THE
DRUPAL COMMUNITYAngie "webchick" Byron
April 14, 2015
About me
it's 2015.
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
i started in 2005.
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
how did we get here?
and how do we ensure we'll sVll be here in 2025?
2005bap.sm by fire
google summer of code
the server crash
in 48 hours, raised over $10,000!
(Plus a $4,000 server from Sun and hos.ng offer from OSL.)
drupalcon amsterdam(the first one!)
2006growing pains
drupal 4.7.0May 1, 2006
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
xml-‐rpc: the origin of drupal island
hNp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088
form api: drupal's first BIG, scary api change
https://www.drupal.org/node/29465
hNp://buytaert.net/the-‐pain-‐before-‐the-‐payoff
hNp://buytaert.net/the-‐pain-‐before-‐the-‐payoff
2007laying founda.ons
big drupal 5.0 features
• Web-‐based installer
• Usability improvements
• New theme (Garland/Minnelli)
• jQuery
hNps://www.drupal.org/drupal-‐5.0
Original Mission
• Infrastructure
• Money
• Promo.on
• NOT influence on the project itself
sVll fresh in mind…
state of drupal survey
hNp://buytaert.net/state-‐of-‐drupal-‐presenta.on-‐august-‐2008
most desired drupal project improvements
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2008-‐2011ch-‐ch-‐ch-‐ch-‐changes
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
formal usability tesVng
hNp://buytaert.net/first-‐results-‐from-‐usability-‐tes.ng
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
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qa (aGer)
http://buytaert.net/we-have-a-test-framework-in-drupal-7
awesome tesVng party!
drupal.org redesign
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
326 parVes in 96 countries!
cvs => git migraVon
2011-‐2015growing up and geong off the island
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
state of drupal survey (v2)
hNp://buytaert.net/state-‐of-‐drupal-‐presenta.on-‐august-‐2011
drupal's biggest challenges
a shiG in the "drupal economy"
a "killer drupal 8 release"
drupal 8 iniVaVves
hNp://buytaert.net/announcing-‐spark-‐authoring-‐improvements-‐for-‐drupal-‐7-‐and-‐drupal-‐8
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"geong off the island"Composer
Services
Components
PSR-4
OOP
Twig
YAML
"geong off the island"
drupalci: next generaVon testbot
hNps://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci
evolving drupal's governance: do-‐ocracy
The things that get done are the things someone actually does.
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
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 coredocumenta.onworking group
security working group
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 maintainersini.a.ve coordinators
core contributors
project lead
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
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.
2015+?the bright, shiny future
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
one MILLION parVes? ;)
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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
will we see the killer d8 release in 8.1.0? 8.2.0?
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some other awesome thing?
*you* decide! :)
one final note…
what are we funding?
• Performance improvements
• Upgrade path
• Security fixes
• Targeted sprints
• Testbot moderniza.on
• Awesome core contributors!hNp://webchick.net/d8accelerate-‐deep-‐dive
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
please consider donaVng!
https://www.crowdrise.com/d8accelerate/fundraiser/angiebyron
thanks. :)