A brief about, D8 its release history and our development experience with it

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Our Encounter
With D8

2. STRUCTURE
Introduction
Drupal 8 Development
Drupal Release Timeline
Official D8 Release
Developer’s Take
Building in D8
Is this the right time to move to D8?
Drupal 8 adoption
Learning Resources

3. INTRODUCTION
• Drupal 8 is the new standard for creating incredible digital experiences
• Drupal 8's core platform has more than 200 new features built in
• Drupal 8 is a massive improvement over Drupal 7
• Great deal of time & energy has been spent into making Drupal 8 what it is
• Let’s look into that

4. Let’s Learn about D8 Development Cycle

5. DRUPAL 8 DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
Development Cycle consisted of 6 different phases
1. Development Phase (March 10, 2011 – December 12, 2012)
2. Feature Completion Phase (December 12, 2012 – February 18, 2013)
3. Clean-up Phase ( February 18, 2013 – July 1, 2013)
4. API Completion Phase ( July 1, 2013 – October 1, 2014)
5. Beta Phase ( October 1, 2014 – October 7, 2015)
6. RC Phase ( October 7, 2015 – November 19, 2015)

6. DRUPAL RELEASE TIMELINE
 Drupal 7 was released on January 5th 2011
 And it took 5 years from that to official D8 release
 Dries and other core contributors have put in highest amount of efforts for this
version of Drupal

7. OFFICIAL D8 RELEASE
Drupal 8.0.0 was released on 19th November 2015
Drupal 8 is built by unprecedented efforts of 3290 contributors & 1228
companies
It definitely calls for a celebration!
Which led to more than 200 release parties all around the globe!
This announcement means we’ll have quickly adapt to the new features and offer
complete solution to clients
Features that our developers loved the most;
1. RESTful Web Services API
2. Contrib Module Readiness

8. CHERISHABLE MEMORIES OF THE RELEASE PARTY WE
HOSTED

9. DEVELOPER’S TAKE
Developers worldwide agree on the fact that Drupal 8 would sure make their lives
easier
Here’s what our developers think about D8
“MVC structure, inbuilt views and inline place editors, not to miss TWIG based
theming engine and configuration is what I like the most about D8”
- Deepali (Sr. Drupal Developer)
“It’s been great experience working with D8, minimal contributed module is
required and core caching is very strong”
- Saurabh Dhariwal (Project Manager)
Apart from that Drupal 8 employs third party libraries like “composer” which is
not part of “Symphony” framework but go hand in hand with “Symphony”

10. BUILDING IN D8
We fell in love with D8, the moment we started working with it
Of course there were challenges initially, but they make for a great learning experience
Developers chose to build test sites with beta releases in order to test the new features
and APIs
The biggest challenge was lack of resources during beta phase to learn about D8
But we managed to get past that just fine

11. Until now we have delivered couple of D8 websites
One of them is a simple one page personal portfolio website
(Can’t provide details about others due to confidentiality clause)
TWIG theming engine is the best part about it. And D8 requires more unified and
simpler APIs to add power
Core is so strong with D8 that no contrib module was required
It was much easier to move configuration changes between environments

12. IS THIS THE RIGHT TIME TO MOVE TO D8?
Yes it is
D8 is definitely a good news for everyone associated with Drupal
Website building is much faster than previous versions
It’s easier to learn D8 via variety of sources
Upgrading to Drupal module is much easier with “Drupal Module Upgrader”
Drupal 8 is 100% multilingual

13. DRUPAL 8 ADOPTION
in the 90 days following the release of Drupal 8.0.0, adoption has outpaced
Drupal 7 by more than 200 percent
As of late March, Drupal.org counted over 60,000 Drupal 8 sites
Source – How is Drupal 8 doing?

14. DRUPAL 8 LEARNING RESOURCES
This is the time when people focus on learning Drupal 8 and its new features
Here’s the consolidated list of Video Tutorials and Articles
Video Tutorials – “OSTraining”
Blog Post – Drupalize.me
Miscellaneous Material – List of resources

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