Our lead community developer, Alona Oneill, has been sitting in on the latest Drupal Core Initiative meetings and putting together meeting recaps outlining key talking points from each discussion. This article breaks down highlights from meetings this past week.
You'll find that the meetings, while also providing updates of completed tasks, are also conversations looking for community member involvement. There are many moving pieces as things are getting ramped up for Drupal 9, so if you see something you think you can provide assistance on, we encourage you to get involved.
Out of the Box Initiative Meeting
August 27, 2019
Mark Conroy (markconroy) and Ofer Shaal (shaal) talked about:
- Umami's language-switcher as a drop-down menu
- Language switcher and mobile menu need an accessibility drop-down element. When we do that we can prepare it for core 8.8.x
- Umami demo views should display items from all languages.
- After the issue was committed it made some noise and currently is under discussion.
Drupal Getting Involved Guide Refresh Meeting
August 27, 2019
This meeting:
- Usually happens on alternate Tuesdays.
- Is text only!
- Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!
- Has a public agenda issue anyone can add to: Meeting - Getting Involved Guide - 27 August 2019
- Meeting transcripts are still a work in progress, but please comment on the meeting agenda issue so we can grant you credit for attending/contributing!
During the meeting, the following topics were discussed:
Personas
We have consensus on Personas! The issue, Consensus on contribution personas, tracks all of the progress. We need to store those personas as they are in somewhere we can easily reference.
Writing Style Toolset
Loving that we know the styles are already agreed in issue Evaluate, pick, and configure checking/linting tools for the Getting Involved Guide. The toolset is making great progress so far.
Proposed outline
The outline needs a review - how do we make it attractive and welcoming to new potential contributors? Find documentation and progress updates in the issue Proposed Outline for the Getting involved Guide.
Community Section
- Rachel Lawson (rachel_norfolk) has made a community section for us to detail what we are up to.
- What content do we need in here?
- Rachel Lawson has added Getting Involved Guide Refresh and we can add as much content there as we like.
Admin UI Meeting
August 28, 2019
- Meetings are for core and contributed project developers as well as people who have integrations and services related to core.
- Usually happens every other Wednesday at 2:30pm UTC.
- Is done over chat.
- Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!
- There are roughly 5-10 minutes between topics for those who are multitasking to follow along.
Beta & Stable Blockers Revision
- Field cardinality can be unpostponed after table drags has been finished.
- Cards issue is blocked by action links so that could use some help.
- Image and file fields are blocked by design work.
- Status report page is blocked on design unless we go with the existing one for beta.
- Probably Media designs won’t be on time, so probably the Media should be moved to stable.
- We need some help with accessibility revisions.
Layout Redesign: Max-width Limit
We opened this issue for Layout Redesign after facing some problems with Card Style Updates with wide screens.
Customizable Settings
Looking to determine what we would like to have as customizable options. The discussion is started in the issue Provide form for customizable settings.