Drupal 8 has been out for over a year: is it ready for your organization to take the leap? In this keynote from the Drupalcon Baltimore Nonprofit Summit, Jeff Eaton explains the changing pace of Drupal release cycles, the current state of Drupal 8, and the key improvements you can make to your existing Drupal 7 site — changes that will simplify your migration when you do take the plunge.

1. Drupal 8

2. Hi! I’m @eaton.
I work for Lullabot.
We big content.

4. Is Drupal 8
Ready ForYou?

5. 13 years
64,000 miles
4 release cycles
4 Drupal 8 projects

7. 80 years old
in cat years

8. 80 years old
in cat years

9. Hacking vs.
Clicking

10. Batteries now
included
Workflows
Content types
Views
Custom fields
WYSIWYG
Layout

11. Slower cycle,
slower adoption

12. 4.6
4.7
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
6 months
11 months
9 months
1 year
3 years
4.5 years

13. Less appetite
fordestruction

15. eight is enough
eight is enough
eight is enough
eight is enough
eight is enough
eight is enough
eight is enough

16. It willdelaythe release,
but we should add
these newfeatures!
The release is late,
this is our only chance
to add newfeatures!

18. New core features
every six months

19. 8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
Migration UI; partial rendering
Content moderation, date ranges
Form layouts, CKEditor 4.6
Media browser? Page layouts?

20. 5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9 months
1 year
3 years
4.5 years

21. Up-front investment
More predictable
Less risk

23. Content
modeling
✔

24. ‣ Dates, ranges, links, phones
‣ Reference fields
‣ Views + display modes
✔

25. ‣ Media module
‣ Entity Embed module
‣ Entity Browser module
✔

26. Editorial
experience
✔

27. ‣ WYSIWYG just works
‣ Customizable forms
‣ Workflow/approval states
✔

28. Critical
modules
!

29. ‣ CiviCRM: pre-alpha
‣ Drupal Commerce: beta
‣ Webform: beta
‣ Panels: beta
‣ SearchAPI: release candidate
!

30. Migration and
upgrade path
!

31. ‣ Very robust API
‣ SQL, XML, CSV
‣ D6, D7 core upgrade
‣ Drush + custom code
!

32. Web services,
decoupling
!

33. ‣ JSON, XML, CSVfeeds
‣ Simple RESTAPI
‣ DIYweb, mobile apps
‣ DIY model, aggregation
!

34. Developer
tools
✖

35. ‣ Few examples
‣ Few overviews
‣ Lots of internal changes
‣ IDE + Drupal Console required
✖

37. Content housecleaning
‣ Inventory, audit your content
‣ Plan your “ideal” content model
‣ Consider in-place pre-migration

38. Home & landing pages
‣ Landing page = content type
‣ References for curation
‣ EntityViews Attach fordynamic
‣ Paragraphs for ‘stacked bits’

39. Home & landing pages
D8 Blocks EmbeddingFields, Paragraphs

40. Theming
‣ Twig syntax, blocks everywhere
‣ Think patterns, not pages
‣ Plan variations carefully
‣ Twig Tweak, Twig Field Values

41. Before you jump…
‣ Get your content house in order
‣ Identify missing must-haves
‣ Watch for upcoming features
‣ Talkto other organizations

43. Attending Drupalcon?
Check out the Lullabot
Pantheon party!
Wednesday, April 26th 8-11pm
The Maryland Science Center
601 Light St.
Baltimore, MD 21230