The status of Drupal 8 as of June 2012.

1. Kristjan Jansen
Drupal 8
Drupalcamp Tallinn
2012

2. About me
Using Drupal since version 2.0
Worked on Drupal UX,
theming and branding
Consulting, talking, blogging

3. Drupal 8
timeline

4. 2011 2012 2013

5. Mar 2011
Dev.
started
2011 2012 2013

6. Mar 2011
Dev.
started
2011 2012 2013
June 2012
We are
here

7. Mar 2011 Dec 1 2012
Dev. Feature
started Freeze
2011 2012 2013
June 2012
We are
here

8. Mar 2011 Dec 1 2012
Dev. Feature
started Freeze
2011 2012 2013
June 2012 Feb 1 2013
We are Code
here Freeze

9. Mar 2011 Dec 1 2012 Aug 2013
Dev. Feature Drupal 8
started Freeze released
2011 2012 2013
June 2012 Feb 1 2013
We are Code
here Freeze

10. Official initiatives

11. Lets go back to
Drupalcamp Tallinn 2011

12. Core initiatives
Configuration
Web Services
Design
Internationalization
HTML5

13. Core initiatives
Configuration
Web Services
Design
Internationalization
HTML5
many more

14. Configuration
Management

15. Saving conf in Drupal 7
// mymodule/mymodule.module
variable_set("mymodule_variable", 1);
Saving conf in Drupal 8
// mymodule/mymodule.module
config('mymodule.config')->set('myvalue', 1)->save();
// mymodule/config/mymodule.config.yml
myvalue: 1

16. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core#cmi

17. Web services

18. Drupal should generate
output in any format
"Services in core"

20. Introducing...

22. Symfony is
PHP framework
to create frameworks

23. Modular object-oriented
components for PHP 5.3

24. Drupal only uses a small
subset of components

25. Historic commit: 1 June 2012

26. define(‘DRUPAL_ROOT’, getcwd());
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . ‘/core/includes/bootstrap.inc’;
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
menu_execute_active_handler();
index.php for many years

27. use SymfonyComponentHttpFoundationRequest;
define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/core/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_CODE);
$kernel = drupal_container()->get('httpkernel');
$response = $kernel->handle($request)->prepare($request)->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);
index.php in future

28. What next?
Cleanup and performance
New menu / router
Event dispatcher vs hooks
install.php and update.php

29. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core#wscci

30. Internationalization

31. Mostly about cleaning up
language APIs
Might use Symfony pieces
In works: config translation

32. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core#d8mi

33. HTML5

34. Most core templates
converted
New HTML5 form elements

35. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core/html5

36. And now the
new initiatives

37. Blocks & Layouts
Everywhere

38. Spin-off from Web Services
"Panels in core"

39. groups.drupal.org/node/227543

40. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core#layouts

41. Mobile

43. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core#mobile

44. Non-official
initiatives

45. PSR-0

46. Cleanly separate procedural
and object-oriented code
Support namespacing
and class lazy-loading

47. Drupal 7 module classes
mymodule/mymodule.module
mymodule/mymodule.inc
Drupal 8 module classes
mymodule/mymodule.module
mymodule/lib/Drupal/mymodule/firstClass.php
mymodule/lib/Drupal/mymodule/secondClass.php

48. User experience
improvements

49. New create content page

50. Latest overview in bojhan.nl

51. Theming cleanup +
Twig

52. Drupal theming is a mess

53. Some theme problems
No consistency
Too many templates
Complex data structurea
Too much _process()ing

54. Twig

55. .tpl.php
<?php if ($content): ?>
<div class=”<?php print $classes; ?>”>
<?php print $content; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
.twig
{% if content %}
<div {{ attributes }}>
{{ contents }}
</div>
{% endif %}

56. Help out in
groups.drupal.org/theme-
development

57. One more thing

58. Photo: Dries Buytaert
Views
in core

59. Task list
PSR-0 conversion
Re-use new configuration
and plugin APIs
Convert (some) core views
Move some UI widgets to core

60. Help out in
drupal.org/community-
initiatives/drupal-core/vdc

61. Lots of smaller
improvements

62. All Drupal files under /core
Better Entity API
cron.php → cron.module
xmlrpc.php → xmlrpc.module
profile.module blog.module

63. How to track
all this?

64. groups.drupal.org/core

65. drupal.org/list-changes

66. Again, all this happens
only when YOU help

67. Thanks!
kika.trip.ee
twitter.com/kristjanjansen
facebook.com/kristjanjansen