Understand what's in store in Drupal 8, Drupal 8 Core initiative, dive back in and contribute!

1. What in Store in Drupal 8?

2. About Me
Shyamala Rajaram
Technology Head & Project Manager at UniMity Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Part of a team that has developed an Enterprise Social Media Product, successfully implemented
in large corporates. The product us an adoption of Drupal's powerful capabilities.
I have been an active participant in the online Drupal Community and have made contributions
to the enhancements, usage and adoption of Drupal. Currently working as Project Manage for
Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative.

3. Presentation Path
● Key Initiatives
○ Configuration Management
○ Views in Core
○ Webservices
○ Mutilingual
○ Mobile
○ Layouts
● Contribute back to Drupal

4. heyrocker
Issues
Configuration Managment

5. ● $config->save(); = Cache_set() and cache_get() in
Drupal 7
● Active store or "config" table = cache table, stores
current configuration
● Easy readable file yml files that facilitate
configuration management between sites

6. Earl Miles
All VDC Issues
Views in Drupal Core

7. Checkout XJM's blog post
"VDC at feature freeze".
● Views' usability, accessibility, and performance
● Converting core lists to Views, so that site builders
can easily adjust their site's structure.
● Adding new features to Views like core token support,
bulk actions integration,mobile-friendly
administration, and data serialization
● Integrate Views with other core systems and improve
core APIs.

8. Crell
Issues
Webservices
The Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI)
aims to transform Drupal from a first-class CMS to a
first-class REST server with a first-class CMS on top of
it.

9. What does the WSCCI initiative mean to us:
● Page callbacks will mutate into "body-like blocks", which
will be on the same level as response controllers for
JSON, SVG, SOAP, or whatever else we feel like sending.
HTML is a just special case of REST
● Global state variables, such as $user and $language, will
be eliminated in favor of the Symfony2 request object.
● Replace our routing resolution system (currently over-
coupled with the menu system) with Symfony's
HttpKernel implementation
Read on Larry's blog at: http://www.garfieldtech.
com/blog/refocusing-wscci

10. Gábor Hojtsy
Issues
Multilingual

11. D8MI

12. JohnAlbin
Issues
Mobile

13. Blog post by John
● Responsive Drupal - ships with core responsive
theme
● Responsive admin interface - use drupal admin
interface form mobile
● Responsive toolbar
● Responsive images
● Front end performance

14. EclipseGc
Layouts

15. ● Implement Panels-ish Controller
● Move Blocks to Plugins
● Page to configure Layouts
● Multiple entry forms in one form!

16. Other initiatives
● Twig
● Spark: Authoring Experience++
● D8 User expereince
● Date in 8
● HTML5 initiative

17. Where are we
with Drupal 8?

19. Drupal 8 Updates and How
to Help
Core initiative
Drupal Issue
Queues & IRC

20. Time to give back,
Contribute to Drupal!

22. Thank You!