The run-down of where Drupal 8's at as of August 2015.

1. Drupal 8
Angie "webchick" Byron
Acquia Build Week
August 17, 2015

2. Agenda
• What's in D8?
• Where's D8 at?
• What's the hold-up?
• What about contrib?
• What about migration path?

3. What's in D8?
In case you have never seen a Driesnote…

4. End-user stuff
Improved authoring
experience
Mobile++
Previews that
actually work. :P
In-place editing Easier menus

5. Site Builder Stuff
Views in core
A bleeping search on the
bleeping moules page!
Moar fields in
core
Moar fieldable
entities in core
Multilingual++

6. Themer Stuff
Twig HTML5
Useful external libraries
Kill IE8 and below
with FIRE.

7. Developer Stuff
Configuration
Management
GREAT opportunity
to re-write all of
your modules to
lots of OO PHP and
YAML files! ;)
Web Services
Useful external libraries

8. "Hello world"
example.hello:
path: '/hello'
defaults:
_controller: 'DrupalexampleExampleController::hello'
requirements:
_permission: 'access content'
example.routing.yml
<?php
namespace Drupalexample;
use DrupalCoreControllerControllerBase;
use SymfonyComponentHttpFoundationResponse;
/**
* Returns responses for Example module routes.
*/
class ExampleController extends ControllerBase {
public function hello() {
return new Response($this->t('Hello world.'));
}
}
src/ExampleController.php
example.info.yml
name: Example
type: module
description: 'Example'
core: 8.x
"Proudly Invented
Elsewhere":
- YAML
- OOP
- PHP5.5
- Symfony

9. Where's D8 at?
When can I use it already?!

10. The final countdown
• 11 release blockers ("critical
issues") remaining.
• At 0, we start bi-weekly release
candidates.
• Release at least 6 weeks later, if
incoming criticals deemed
manageable.
• Released "when it's ready."
https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0/get-involved

11. After 8.0.0? Semantic
versioning!
• Drupal 6 support dropped 3 months after
Drupal 8.0.0's release.
• Bug fix/security releases continue on
monthly schedule as now in D6/D7.
• New "feature releases" of Drupal 8 every 6
months (8.1.x, 8.2.x…) with non-BC
breaking improvements.
• Drupal 9 not branched until much later,
when there's enough "meat" (completed
change proposals which can't be committed
to 8.x) to make a compelling product
• Drupal 8 enters "LTS" mode (security fixes
only) after Drupal 9.0.0
D6 SUPPORT
ENDS
8.2.08.1.0
NEW
FEATURES
NEW
FEATURES
…
NEW
FEATURES

12. What's the hold-up?
Why can't I use it already?!

13. Security
• openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()
is broken on PHP < 5.6.12,
5.5.28, 5.4.44
• Remove or document every
SafeMarkup::set() call
• Remove as much of the
SafeMarkup class's methods as
possible
• …plus, any private "critical" or
"highly critical" D6/D7 core issues

14. Upgrade Path
• Provide a beta to beta/rc upgrade
path BLOCKED
• Automatic entity updates can
fail when there is existing
content, leaving the site's
schema in an unpredictable
state BLOCKER
• Update test database dump
should be based on beta 12
and contain content

15. Performance/Scalability
• aka, "The Cloud Team Rejoices" ;)
• Create standardized core profiling
scenarios and start tracking metrics
for them
• Twig should not rely on loading php
from shared file system
• Replace Symfony container with a
Drupal one, stored in cache
• Resolve infinite stampede in mtime
protected PHP storage

16. The Drupal 8.0.0-rc1
Release Checklist
• Stuff like:
• Update to latest versions of
external libraries
• Re-profile to check for regressions
• Manual testing in latest supported
browsers (including mobile)
• Automated tests against all
supported environments (e.g.
SQLite, PostgreSQL, PHP 7)
https://www.drupal.org/node/2485119

17. What about contrib?
I dareth ask…

18. Status of some of the big
ones
In core / Done Usable 6+ months out
•Views
•Date
•Entity Reference
•Quick Edit
•WYSIWYG
•Mobile-Friendly
Toolbar
•Responsive
Images/Tables
•i18n
•Token
•Features
•Pathauto
•CTools
•Page Manager
•Devel
•Rules
•Panels
•Panels IPE
•Commerce
•Media

19. Biggest needs?
• Time. Get my boss to prioritize D8 (employees) /
Pay my rent so I can prioritize D8 (freelancers)
• Sprints. Especially for "hard problems" that
need a whiteboard and booze.
• Money. This helps buy time and fund sprints;
some modules (e.g. Rules) have crowd-funding
efforts.
• Key Drupalists. e.g. "More Tim Plunkett,
please." ;)
• Triage. Help with my issue queue (support
requests, patch reviews) so I can stay focused
on D8.

20. What about the
upgrade path?
Please don't hit me…

21. What's the skinny?
• Upgrade path between 8.x versions
• Not supported in core yet; possibly by next week. :) See https://
www.drupal.org/project/head2head in contrib for now
• Migration path between major versions (6/7 => 8)
• Build out your Drupal 8 site as a new site, then migrate content, users, etc.
over.
• Drupal 6 => 8 migrations already in! Drupal 7 => 8 migrations are in progress.
• Must port your own custom code; stick with well-used contrib
modules if you can!
• Drupal Module Upgrader (previous Acquia hackathon project!) can help
alleviate lots of tedium.

22. In short…
• D8 is awesome
• We need to get it done
• We also need lots of
contributed modules and a
migration path for it to be
adopted
• You can help!