Talking Drupal #462 - DrupalCon Singapore

Today we are talking about DrupalCon Singapore, What you can
expect, and What’s next for Drupal in Asia with guest Mike
Richardson & Surabhi Gokte. We’ll also cover Filefield Paths
as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/462
Topics

When is Drupalcon Asia

The last one was in 2016, what did it take to reprise

How do you handle language barriers

What are your roles in the organizing committee

Steering committee and Drupal South

What can attendees expect

Any special programming

What kind of diversity is expected from attendees

Driving from Mumbai to Singapore is 110 hours

Will Dries be there

Can we expect future Drupalcon Asia's

Planning and logistics regarding coffee

Starshot

Resources

DrupalCon Singapore

Droptimes

Drupal camp Pune

Steering committee for Drupal South

Linux Australia Council

DrupalCon Singapore Sponsorship

Email events@drupalasia.org



Park Royal Collection Marina Bay

Singapore Wiki

Singapore Visa

Guests

Mike Richardson - Singapore DrupalCon richo_au
Surabhi Gokte - surabhi-gokte
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to use a variety of tokens to
customize the directory and file names of your uploaded
files? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

File (Field) Paths



Brief history

How old: created in July 2008 by Stuart Clark
(Deciphered), though recent releases are by Oleh Vehera
(voleger) of Golems GABB

Versions available: 7.x-1.2 and 8.x-1.0-beta7, the latter
of which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, and Drupal 10



Maintainership

Seeking co-maintainers

Security Coverage

Opted in, but no coverage in practice for Drupal 9 or
10



Test coverage

Number of open issues: 131 open issues, 50 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

34,609 sites almost 35,000 sites



Module features and usage

This module allows you to customize file names and paths
by leveraging a variety of entity-based tokens

It also integrates with the Pathauto module, giving you
options to clean up the tokens for example by removing
slashes, filtering out words or punctuation, and so on

It can also work with the Transliteration module to
convert unicode characters into US-ASCII

Filefield Paths has options to rename and move existing
files, and can retroactively rename files, effectively bulk
updating and moving all your existing files

It can also work with the Redirect module to
automatically create redirects from the old path and filename
to the new location, when renaming

I’d also like to give a tip of the cap to Jim Birch of
Kanopi for suggesting this module, when I was talking to a
customer who was looking to achieve pretty much exactly what
this module does