1. Drupal community 2013
retrospective
Andy Postnikov
2013

2. Overview contribution
commits & committers - core 7 vs 8
954 vs 1779... contributors ericduran.github.io/drupalcores
office hours dgo.to/1242856 drupal.org/core-mentoring
cons & camps drupical.com
dev days twitter.com/drupaldevdays
Drupal.org upgrade to D7 dgo.to/2124989

3. Core 8 contribution
Core driven... ~ 150 people involved in 20+ commits
10 mar 2011
1042
2012 - 2013
3363
2013 - ...
4167

4. NIH syndrome
Drupal steps out of sandbox
Stop reinventing - fork & collaborate
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cache, parsers, annotations, http handling, mail
Pluginify the things
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Make things swappable
Reuse and extend

5. Doing more OOP
We are doing it now and more in 8
metatags, ctools, panels, feeds, facet api, search api
Traits, abstract classes, interfaces
“Fresh blood” is OOP people?
Losing core developers?
Backdrop coming drupal-fork

6. PHP EOL & MYSQL, Dependencies
Drupal Has Dependencies
Composer, Symfony, doctrine, PHPUnit, ZF, jQuery, Backbone, etc.
PHP 5.3 is EOL at 11 july 2013 + 1 year
http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-07-11-1
MYSQL release each 12-18 months
https://blogs.oracle.com/datacharmer/entry/mysql_has_a_new_release
Drupal 6 to stop supporting PHP 4 on March 1st 2014
https://drupal.org/node/2159315

7. New release cycle for 8
New release cycle for Drupal 8
8.0.x => 8.1.x …. major changes allowed, Drupal 6 supported til 8.3
Proposal approved 13 dec 2013
drupal.org/node/2135189
Semantic versioning semver.org in progress
drupal.org/node/586146

8. Questions?!
Andy Postnikov
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