What's new on Drupal.org? - July 2018

Read our Roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community.

Announcements

Git remote URL changes for full projects and sandboxes

Git authentication methods for Drupal.org hosted projects are changing as we approach upgrading our developer tooling stack.

In particular we are:

• Deprecating password authentication for Git
• Deprecating the full project Git remote format
  <username>@git.drupal.org/project/<yourproject>.git
  in favor of:
  [email protected]:project/<yourproject>.git
• HTTPS clone urls for full projects will not be changing.
• Sandbox URLs have changed from: <username>@>git.drupal.org:sandbox/<author-username>/<project-node-id>.git to [email protected]:sandbox/<author-username>-<project-node-id>.git
• HTTPS clones sandbox URLs have changed from:
  https://git.drupal.org/sandbox/<author-username>/<project-node-id>.git
  to
  https://git.drupal.org/sandbox/<author-username>-<project-node-id>.git

We have updated the version control instructions for Drupal.org projects, and put a message in our Git server for any user who makes a push using the deprecated format.

For more information, please review: https://drupal.org/gitauth

Reminder: Drupal Europe is coming up soon

Drupal Europe is coming up in less than 40 days! Drupal Europe will be the largest gathering of the Drupal community in Europe and is a reimagining of this important community event as both technical conference and family reunion. The Drupal Association engineering team will be attending to connect with the community, provide updates on Drupal.org, and listen to some of the incredible speakers who will be in attendance.

Join the community in Darmstadt, Germany, from September 10-14, 2018. Make sure to register, book your travel, and secure accommodation: http://drupaleurope.org/

We want your feedback on ideas for Drupal Core

The Drupal Association has proposed several initiatives for Drupal Core - but before they can be officially adopted they need feedback from stakeholders in the community (even if it's just a "+1") and to reach community RTBC. Here are the proposals:

• Telemetry, to improve our insight into how Drupal is used in the real world.
• Communication channel in core, to extend our reach to the audience beyond those people who have a Drupal.org account.
• Automatic updates, as proposed by Dries at DrupalCon Vienna, and more specifically, the precursor task to Improve Core's Use of Composer
• Site-builder/Project browser tool, to make Drupal more accessible to less technical users.

Drupal.org Updates

Staff retreat

In July the Drupal Association gathered together in Portland Oregon for our bi-annual staff retreat. At these retreats we discuss the progress made in the last six months, and our prioritization as an organization going into the next six month period.

Hightech industry page launched

Drupal is the CMS of choice for a variety of companies in the high tech space, including organizations like Redhat, Cisco, and Tesla. Whether it is used in a front-facing application, as a decoupled back-end, or for an internal intranet experts in hightech defer to Drupal's example for their needs.

We launched a new industry page featuring these stories from high tech in July.

Drupal.org API updated for security advisories

To improve the automated toolchains built by organizations and individuals in the community to watch for new security advisories, we've updated the Security Advisory API. One of these changes ensures that the full canonical identifier for each advisory is included in the API data, which is a small but valuable change for anyone monitoring the API for advisory information.

Social Media Sharing for Events News

The DrupalCon news feed now includes social media sharing icons, so that you can better promote DrupalCon news and announcements to your networks. Word of mouth has always been a critical part of Drupal's success - so we hope that as featured speakers are announced, early bird registration begins, or the schedule is published, you will help us get the word out!

DrupalCon Seattle is coming up from April 8-12 2019, and we're featuring some bold new changes to support a variety of audiences from our traditional core of those people who build Drupal, to marketers and content editors, and to the agency sales forces that sell Drupal to the world.

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As always, we’d like to say thanks to all the volunteers who work with us, and to the Drupal Association Supporters, who make it possible for us to work on these projects. In particular we want to thank:

• Mediacurrent - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
• Last Call Media - Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
• JetBrains - Renewing Classic Technology Supporter
• Kanopi Studios - *NEW* Classic Supporting Partner

If you would like to support our work as an individual or an organization, consider becoming a member of the Drupal Association.

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