Talking Drupal #456 - DDEV Grows Up

Today we are talking about DDEV, The DDEV Community, and It’s
Future Sustainability with guest Randy Fay and Andrew Berry.
We’ll also cover DDEV Drupal Contrib as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/456
Topics

What is DDEV

In March you posted the DDEV Project Plan for 2024, what is
the contributor training initiative

DDEV has grown rapidly over the past few years, what do you
attribute that to

You seem to be the face of DDEV, who else is involved

How is DDEV funded

What happens when you retire

Does the DDEV Foundation have employees

What is DDEV coded in

What is your favorite feature of DDEV

What is next

How can people get involved

Resources

DDEV Project 2024 Plans

DDEV Contributor Live Training

Scheduling and signup

DDEV Discord

Nerdsniping XKCD Comic

Level one learning xz utils

Guests

Andrew Berry - deviantintegral
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Randy Fay - rfay
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted a local DDEV environment optimized
for working on a Drupal contrib project? There’s a DDEV
add-on for that.



Module name/project name:

DDEV Drupal Contrib



Brief history

How old: created in Apr 2023 by Moshe Weitzman, a Drupal
core maintainer, and according to his resume the first
American to contribute to Drupal

Versions available: 1.0.0-rc8



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Test coverage

Documentation - Lengthy README

Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug



Module features and usage

The add-on adds two ddev commands to help during setup:

ddev poser creates a temporary composer.contrib.json,
adding drupal/core-recommended as a dev dependency. It also
runs composer install and yarn install so that all
dependencies are available

The additional ddev symlink-project command adds symlinks
from your project files to an expected path within the custom
modules directory of the installed version of Drupal

Once it’s set up, you can easily run tests locally
exactly the way they will be run in GitlabCI. It’s also even
easier to apply any of the automatic fixes that are
available, for example by running ddev phpcbf or ddev eslint
with the –fix flag

You can also commit the generated .ddev directory inside
your project, to make it easy for other contributors to use
the same tools

I will note that after running ddev poser I got errors
trying to use composer to add any other projects to the local
environment, for example to use admin toolbar for manual
testing

That said, this is another great example of how the set
of Drupal developer tools is always improving, and also
illustrates to the power of DDEV’s add-ons