Talking Drupal #320 - Drupal 8 End of Life

Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life with Gábor
Hojtsy.


TalkingDrupal.com/320
Topics

John - NEDCamp is in two weeks

April - Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year

Gábor - Thinking of all versions of Drupal

Nic - Vacation was great - visited Salem

What End of Life (EoL) means

Statistics on number of sites

Why D8 EoL is before D7

What can people do to continue using D8

Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the
platform

Improvements to the process

Process expected for D9 and D10

D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption

Expected differences with D7 EoL

Current Projects

Contributions

Next big thing

Core committer experience over the years

Initiative lead, lead

Merge request support with gitlab

Making core committer’s life easier

Resources

New England Drupal Camp

Old versions of Drupal

FGM getting it working on newer php

https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal

Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 - 8

Drupal Usage

Drupal Upgrade Status

Drupal 9 Deprecation

Drupal 10 Deprecation

Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net

Multi-core compatibility

Project Update Bot

Lenient Composer Facade

Talking Drupal #312 - DrupalPod

Closure of the multilingual initiative

(over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)



Last page of commit history

First contribution - contrib


https://git.drupalcode.org/project/bbcode/-/commit/34e3c35



First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet
exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log
--reverse --grep “Gabor” | less

commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed Author: Dries
Buytaert Date: Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000 - Added 'escape HTML'
option to the filters. Patch by Gabor Hojtsy. commit
069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0 Author: Dries Buytaert
Date: Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000 - More translation fixes for
the menu items. Patch by Gabor. commit
bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8 Author: Dries Buytaert
Date: Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000 - Translation improvements for
the block module help. Patch by Gabor. commit
7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7 Author: Dries Buytaert
Date: Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000 - Made sure non US-ASCII mails
are sent out properly. Patch by Gabor. TODO: rename user_mail() to
drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc. Other modules, such as the
project module, should use this as well or they risk to send out
/invalid/ mails. Guests

Gábor Hojtsy - www.hojtsy.hu
@gaborhojtsy
Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
April Sides - @weekbeforenext
MOTW

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