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

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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

The Drupal Association announces our partnership with GitLab

In August we were pleased to announce a migration of the Drupal.org developer tools to GitLab.

This will be a three phase process, and we'll be announcing more soon at Drupal Europe and in future blog posts.

We want to say a special thank you to contributor Michael Hess, who volunteered hundreds of hours toward this initiative over the past year (and more).

Git remote URL changes for full projects and sandboxes

To support the migration to GitLab, Git authentication methods for Drupal.org hosted projects are changing.

In particular we have:

  • Deprecated password authentication for Git
  • Deprecated 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

Drupal Europe 10-14 Sep 2018

Reminder: Drupal Europe is coming up soon

Drupal Europe is coming up in less than a week! 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/

DrupalCon Seattle April 8-12 2019

Reminder: DrupalCon Seattle Early Bird Registration is open now

DrupalCon Seattle general registration is open now. The programming has been transformed to address the needs of Builders, Content and Digital Marketers, Agency Leaders, and Executives: https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019/registration

Please note that ticket prices have changed—and now Supporting Partners will receive a discounted rate compared to non-partner attendees. Joining the Supporting Partner program is a great way to support the Drupal project and the Drupal Association.

Drupal.org Updates

Drupal.org issues can be sorted by # of followers

To help Drupal.org project maintainers understand what issues are most important to people, the issue queues can now be sorted by the number of people following each issue. Here's an example of the Drupal Core issue queue sorted by follower count.

Documentation landing page updated

The Documentation Initiative was formed at DrupalCon Nashville to help improve the onboarding experience for users new to Drupal. A lot of work has been going on in the background, but one of the more visible changes is the new Documentation landing page.

Stable Download link and updated Try Drupal menu

Drupal 8.6 ships with an incredible new Quickstart feature—and to make the process of trying out Drupal as simple as possible, there is now a stable url to retrieve Drupal's latest release.

Similarly, we've updated the top navigation of Drupal.org. The Try Drupal button which appears at the top of every page now offers users the choice of trying an online demo or downloading the software directly.

Travel and Tourism industry page launched

Drupal has a powerful place in the Travel and Tourism space, in use everywhere from Princess Cruises to AAA. To promote Drupal's power in this industry we've launched our Travel and Tourism page.

Decoupled Solutions industry page launched

Perhaps the most powerful implementations of Drupal are Decoupled solutions, relying on Drupal as a stable back-end for content delivery to multiple endpoints with different front-end architectures. This approach is still new to many, our Decoupled industry page helps educate the market.

Staff Updates

Welcome Angie Sabin, Director of Operations

We're also very pleased to welcome Angie Sabin to the team. Angie comes from a non-profit background and is joining the Association to help us take finance and operations to the next level.

Welcome Kelly Delaney, Customer Success Coordinator

The Drupal Association is pleased to announce that Kelly Delaney has joined our team. As our new customer success coordinator, she'll work closely with supporting partners and sponsors to ensure that their needs are met and benefits are fulfilled.

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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:

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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