Welcome to Talking Drupal. Today we are talking about Pantheon Autopilot with Nathan Tyler.

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Topics

• Nic - Firefly iii
• Kevin - Visiting Asheville
• Nathan - Working on 227 open source repos, soccer league
• John - Drupal Providence
• Pantheon Autopilot
• Visual regression tests
• How it works
• Comparison with backstop js
• Deployment workflow
• Composer integration
• Compatible Drupal versions
• Other platforms
• Pantheon upstreams
• Development process
• Acquisition
• Automatic updates initiative in Drupal core
• Developer reactions
• Need for autopilot once automatic updates are supported
• Roadmap
• Adding it to your account
  • cost
• Most surprising project from pantheon

Resources

• Firefly iii
• Autopilot
• Drupal Providence
• Terminus Pancakes

Guests

Nathan Tyler - @getpantheon

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Kevin Thull - @kevinjthull

MOTW

Webform
The Webform module allows you to build any type of form to collect any type of data, which can be submitted to any application or system. Every single behavior and aspect of your forms and their inputs are customizable. Whether you need a multi-page form containing a multi-column input layout with conditional logic or a simple contact form that pushes data to a SalesForce/CRM, it is all possible using the Webform module for Drupal 8/9.

Today we are talking about Camp Planning with April Sides.

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Topics

• Can you tell us about Drupal Camp Asheville?
• Why is camp planning “Your Jam”?
• How do you think virtual events have impacted camps?
• Do you think we will get back to In-person camps in 2022?
• What are your thoughts on hybrid camp formats in the future?
• What is neurodiverse inclusion?
• Why is it important for events and the Drupal community?
• What is your favorite aspect of camp planning?
• Biggest challenge
• Biggest Success
• Tips for starting a new camp
• How to help with an existing camp

Resources

Drive by Daniel Pink
Notist - John
Notiat - April
Event Organizers Working Group
Event Accessibility Playbook
Drupal Camp Asheville
Drupal Camp Asheville Project
Asheville Twitter

Hosts

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

Module of the Week

DropzoneJS
Drupal integration for DropzoneJS - an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews.

Today we are talking about Drupal Diversity & Inclusion with Tearyne Almendariz.

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Topics

• Nic - Split keyboard
• April - Daylight saving pet time adventures
• Tearyne - Summer sabbatical coming to an end - working for Pantheon now!
• John - NEDCamp!
• Brief background for DDI
• Talking Drupal #217 - Tara, Marc, Alanna
• Talking Drupal #297 - with Fatima & Tara
• First involvement in DDI
• What’s new with DDI
  • Regional leads
  • Focus on Restoration and rejuvination
• Changes over the years
• Support from community
• How to expand diveristy and equity in tech
• How to elevate women in tech
• React community
• New members
• Getting involved
• First online camp
• Biggest issue in Drupal right now for Diversity
• Neurodiversity
• How to be an ally and an advocate

Resources

• Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Group
• Query patch
• Batch index patch
• Additional Patch
• Drupal patch in time:
• Talking Drupal #217 - Diversity & Inclusion Group
• Talking Drupal #297 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Holding ourselves accountable
• Drupal Community Working Group
• Harvard business review article
• Hidden brain
  • Book
  • Podcast
• Capacity of supporting junior developers
• Online camp
  • Youtube channel

Guests

Tearyne Almendariz - @TearyneG

Hosts

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

MOTW

Entity Usage

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

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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 <dries@buytaert.net> 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 <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000       - More translation fixes for the menu items.  Patch by Gabor.   commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8 Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Date:   Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000       - Translation improvements for the block module help.  Patch by Gabor.   commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7 Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> 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

Views AJAX History
Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.

Today we are talking about Backdrop with Jen Lampton.

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Topics

• Nic - Vacation
• April - need new shelves for Lego Harry Potter
• Jen - Heirloom tomatoes and too much rain
• John - Personal website / blog
• Backdrop CMS Elevator pitch
• Difference between Drupal and Backdrop
• Why choose Backdrop over Drupal
• Matt Glaman on twitter
  • General challenges of growing a fork’s identity
  • Challenges in being thrifty
• Biggest milestones in the last two years
  • New core committers
  • 7 releases with new features
    • Layouts
    • File browser
    • Lazy loading images
    • Config overrides
    • Telemetry
  • Backdrop Live events
• More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
  • Contributor community
  • Companies specializing in Backdrop
• Wider adoption as D7 approaches EoL
• Wider adoption as D9 approaches EoL
• Ease of migration from D7
  • Easier than migrating D7 to D9
• More listener questions (Matt Glaman)
  • Marketing challenges
• Anything that you would do differently after 6 years
• Philosophy
• Biggest upcoming features
• Telemetry

Resources

• Twitter Questions
• Backdrop CMS
  • Twitter
  • Main site
  • Documentation
  • Forum
  • Live Chat
  • Contributed projects

Guests

Jen Lampton - Jeneration Web Development @jenlampton

Hosts

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

MOTW

CKEditor CodeSnippet