Talking Drupal #426 - Needs Review Queue Initiative

Today we are talking about The Needs Review Queue Initiative,
What it is, and How it’s helping to improve Drupal with guest
Stephen Mustgrave. We’ll also cover Translation Management Tool
as our module of the week.



 


 



 


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/426
Topics

Can you give an overview of Needs Review Issue Queue
Initiative

Is the bug smash initiative related to the needs review issue
queue

Is this the same as the needs review bot

How many issues were in the Needs Review status when you
started

How many issues today

How long did it take until it was manageable

How long do items stay on average

Who else is helping

Let’s talk through the pagination heading level issue

What help can the community provide

How does someone get involved

Do you think this helps with burnout for core committers

What’s the future of the initiative

Resources

Needs Review Queue Bot

Needs Review Issue Queue

Pagination heading level issue

Guests

Stephen Mustgrave - smustgrave
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Translation Management Tool (TMGMT)


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to automate the process of creating
content translations on your Drupal site? There’s a module
for that.



Brief history

How old: created in Jan 2012

Versions available: 7.x-1.0-rc3 and 8.x-1.15, the latter
of which works with Drupal 9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Test coverage

Documentation

Number of open issues: 595, 139 of which are bugs against
the 8.x branch



Usage stats:

8,766 sites



Maintainer(s):

Berdir, a very prolific maintainer in his own right, who
also supports well known projects like Search API, Token,
Paragraphs, and many more



Module features and usage

Provides a tool set for automating the process of
creating translations for your site content, as well as
strings used within the site like menus, interface text, and
so on

Works with more than 30 translation service providers,
including many that leverage human translators, but also
AI-based services like DeepL and OpenAI

Also has a plugin system to determine what text needs to
be translated, so it can be easily adapted to very custom
needs

With the module installed that Translate tab on your
nodes changes to have buttons to request a translation in
each language

Once a translation has been requested, it will run
through states like unprocessed, active, and finished

Also provides an option for Continuous Translation, where
new and updated content is automatically submitted for
translation

Allows for professional translation at scale, using
whatever kind of service works best for your site

The need for robust translation capabilities is what
originally got me started using Drupal, so it’s great to see
that there are enterprise-grade options for sites that need
to manage translations at scale