Drupal 8 Adoption Myths Debunked
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The document discusses the adoption barriers and myths surrounding Drupal 8, highlighting its features and the progress since its release in 2015. It addresses misconceptions about usage, learning difficulty, and module readiness while encouraging community involvement in improving and promoting migration resources. The document also invites participation in events aimed at reducing development challenges related to Drupal 8.
Drupal 8 Adoption Myths Debunked
- 1. Debunking Myths to Drupal 8 Adoption Greater Philadelphia Drupal Meetup Group January 17, 2017
- 2. Who the heck are you?
- 3. Agenda • Recap of Drupal 8 from release until now • Barriers to adoption • Myths: Debunked • What next?
- 5. November 19, 2015: Drupal 8.0.0 ships
- 6. Hundreds of release parties worldwide!
- 7. Lots of great new features
- 8. …and new ones every 6 months! Drupal 8.1.0 (April 20, 2016) Drupal 8.2.0 (October 10, 2016) •BigPipe module •UI for migrations •Better Composer support •JavaScript Testing •Content Moderation •Improved admin UI (SettingsTray+Place Block) •Improved REST API
- 9. What’s not to love?
- 11. Barriers to adoption • Drupal is for more “ambitious” projects; 30,000+ cat blogs are now on Tumblr; affects “quantity” (not “quality”) in graph. • Several top contributed modules not yet ready (or not “seen” as ready) • Drupal 8 now object-oriented, modern PHP; requires upgrade of skills for D7 developers • Upgrade of skills required to port modules is blocked on customers asking for D8, which is blocked on unavailability of modules (chicken/egg). • Migration path from D7 => D8 still incomplete (D6 => D8 is better), also largely blocked on customers asking for D8.
- 12. Myth #1: “No one” is using Drupal 8 yet http://buytaert.net/drupal-8-turns-one
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- 14. Myth #2: Drupal 8 is too hard to learn http://redcrackle.com/blog/drupal-8/free-tutorials-list https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/200-drupal-8-videos/ https://drupalize.me/drupal-8 https://www.appnovation.com/blog/top-resources-getting- started-drupal-8 There are lots of resources (many of them free) to show you the Drupal 8 way!
- 15. Partial Myth #3: Contrib isn’t ready yet.
- 16. How “insiders” evaluate a module’s readiness 1. 1. Well-known maintainer? 2. Recent commit activity? 3. Good issue queue activity? 4. Did I try it and did it work on my site? 5. … 2. 3.
- 17. How literally everyone else evaluates module readiness 1. Does this module have a stable release? 1.
- 18. Why? • Alpha/Beta/RC not deemed as “production ready” due to experience in literally all other software. :P • Core leads the way here: goes very out of its way to explain alpha is unstable, beta is “hopefully” stable, etc. and not recommended for production. • Stable releases not only denote “production ready” but also grant security team coverage. This is really important!
- 20. If you have a D8 contrib module, and it’s working fine for you… …consider giving it the Shield of Awesomeness!
- 21. Not quite perfect? Take a cue from core: There’s always the next release for future polishing!
- 22. If it still needs work… tell us how to help! https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/contrib_tracker
- 23. Test the migration path! If it’s not working, help with (verifying) bug reports/patches
- 24. Let’s kick some contrib/migrate ass at Global Sprint Weekend! Jan 30/31, 2017 https://groups.drupal.org/node/488988
- 25. Let’s get that “Development” number down by Baltimore!