how to lead a drupal team to use standards and best practices

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How to lead a Drupal team to use standards and best practices

Kiêt TrânTechnical project manager

Drupal Camp Kiev – 4th June 2016

Skilld ~ Drupal Camp Kiev 2016

Take advantage of the community

● hooks, alter, preprocess➔ Makes you feel like a king, but the true king is

Drupal


Method #1

● If your issue is standard, Google has the answer.


Method #2

● "Work as designed", wrong by design


Method #2


● Specifications "Reviewed by the team".


Method #2


● Specifications "Reviewed by the team".

● Need + functional + technical = feature


Choose your weapon!


Know your weapons

Need D7 D8

Pages layout Panels Panels (+ Layout plugin)

Content layout Display Suite Display Suite (+ Layout plugin)

Data selection Views Views (in D8 core)

Import Feeds Feeds (in progress)

Export Views data export Views data export (in progress)

Content migration Migrate Migrate (in D8 core)

Multilingual Internationalization In the core

Workflow Rules Rules

Consume web services Web service client Guzzle library

Build web services Services REST (in D8 core)

File management Media / Scald ? Media entity


Layouts

● In D7● Pages: Panels● Content: Display suite

● In D8● Layout plugin as standard architecture● Both Panels and Display suite use Layout plugin● Layout plugin currently being ported into the

core


Selection, import, export

● Data selection● Views => included into D8 core

● Import● Feeds => D8 version in progress (include in core?)● Aggregator ? (comes with parser + fetcher in D8)

● Export● Views data export => D8 version in progress

● Data migration (environments, recast)● Migration => included into D8 core


Multilingual

● In D7● Internationalization (i18n) = the essential

● In D8● Internationalization● Administration Language● Localization update (l10n_update)➔ All included into the core


Workflow

● One module to rule them all● Rules: Trigger, (condition), action● Actively ported to D8


Web services

● Consume● D7: Web service client (wsclient)

– Integration with Rules– Userfriendly interface

● D8: Guzzle library– Custom code ?…

● Build● D7: Services● D8: REST in core (+ Services?)


File management

● In D7● Media vs. Scald● Simple and popular media (file entity)● Flexible Scald (Scald atom)

● In D8● Entry point: Media entity● Media + Scald


Get a look to these

● Commerce

● Search API

● SEO

Skilld ~ Drupal Camp Kiev 2016 ~ www.skilld.fr

Many thanks

● Andrey Postnikov

● Anton Ivanov

● Nicolas Guerrier

● Jean-Baptiste Guerraz

Skilld ~ Drupal Camp Kiev 2016 ~ www.skilld.fr

Thank you.

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