Talking Drupal #504 - The Marketplace

In this episode of Talking Drupal, we dive into the intricacies
of the Drupal marketplace initiative with our guest, Tiffany
Farriss, CEO and co-owner of Palantir.net and long-time board
member of the Drupal Association. We explore the goals and
challenges of creating a trusted Drupal marketplace, discuss how
site templates can lower the barrier to entry for new users, and
examine the importance of maintaining community trust and the
sustainability of Drupal. This episode also includes a spotlight
on the Views CSV Source module and an in-depth discussion on
community feedback, the potential value and business models for
site templates, and the steps needed to make a go/no-go decision
on the marketplace by the upcoming Vienna event.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/504
Topics

Meet Our Guest: Tiffany Farriss

Module of the Week: Views CSV Source

Deep Dive into Views CSV Source

Introduction to the Drupal Marketplace

Goals and Challenges of the Marketplace Working Group

Community Feedback and Sustainability

Monetization and Fairness in the Marketplace

Risk Mitigation and Future Plans

Exploring the Impact of Releases and Usage

Challenges and Successes of the Drupal Marketplace

Defining the MVP for the Drupal Marketplace

Addressing Community Concerns and Governance

Engaging the Community and Next Steps

Final Thoughts and Contact Information

Resources

Marketplace initiative
Guests

Tiffany Farriss - palantir.net farriss
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Norah Medlin - tekNorah
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to present data within your Drupal
website that comes from a CSV flat file, without having to
import that data to your Drupal database? There’s a module
for that.



Module name/project name:

Views CSV Source



Brief history

How old: created in March 2024 by Daniel Cothran
(andileco) of JSI, though I met Danieal at Midcamp earlier
this week and he was emphatic that his colleague and
co-maintainer Nia Kathoni (nikathone) deserves significant
credit

Versions available: 1.0.11, which works with Drupal 8.8,
9, 10, and 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained, latest release was last month

Security coverage

Test coverage

Documentation - a robust README

Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are
bugs



Usage stats:

56 sites



Module features and usage

With Views CSV Source installed, you can create a view
that uses a CSV as a source instead of the Drupal site’s
data. You can point to a file within your site’s filesystem,
or it can be a remotely hosted CSV. If the file requires
authentication for access, it is also possible to include
encoded credentials in a header.

Now you can use CSV Fields to specify the columns you
want to pull into the view, and you can use the “group by” to
specify datasets to represent, for example to plot as lines
in a chart

You can also create filters, either a CSV Field that acts
a standard text filter, or a CSV Field Options filter that
creates a dropdown of all the unique values in a specified
column

Your assembled data can be shown in tables or charts, and
can also be manipulated using standard view configuration, or
using contributed modules like Views Simple Math Field

The module also comes with sort and a contextual filter
plugins

It was impressed by a demo of Views CSV Source in a
lightning talk at Midcamp yesterday, so I thought it would be
fun to talk about today