Talking Drupal #490 - Drupal Contrib First

Today we are talking about Drupal Contribution, how you can
approach it within your company, and why a Contrib First approach
is important with guest Steve Wirt. We’ll also cover Config
Importer & Tools as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/490
Topics

What is contrib first

How does this help the Drupal community

Why is it a good idea for companies

How do you explain this to non dev folks like CEOs or
Presidents

What do you say if a client does not buy in

How do you monitor and build confidence in other developers

How can someone get started

Any tools or tips for someone trying to bootstrap this

Resources

MOTW

https://www.drupal.org/project/confi

https://www.drupal.org/project/upgrade_tool



Civic Actions Practice Tools - Contrib First

Civic Actions Engineering Practice Area - Drupal Contrib
First Module Development

Codit menu tools

Alt text validation - currently being built as Contrib First

Bill requiring US agencies to share custom source code with
each other becomes law

Link shortners

http://dgo.re/ or https://dgo.to/ link shorteners for d.o



Drupal Contrib Development

Contribution to a module

Guests

Steve Wirt - civicactions.com swirt
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy
MOTW Correspondent

Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to streamline the management of
config changes during your Drupal project deployment -
importing individual configuration changes from contrib or
custom modules and synchronizing settings across different
environments? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Config Importer and Tools



Brief history

How old: created in April 2016 by Andrii
Podanenko(podarok)

Versions available: 3.2.0 version which works with Drupal
9 and 10, D11 fixes are in the queue.



Maintainership

Actively maintained - although it’s a developer module
that’s been mostly stable, so there have not been many recent
changes.

Security coverage

Test coverage - unit tests

Documentation - video documenting the process on the
module page and instructions in the project overview

Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 3 of which are bugs
against the current branch



Usage stats:

300 sites



Maintainer(s):

7 maintainers across a few different agencies in Ukraine



Module features and usage

This module has no UI, and all of its work is done using
it’s config_import services, either importer or param_updater

The importer service imports full config files

The param_updater service pulls in single parameters from
a config file.

Both can be used in .install files of contrib modules or
on your own site to pull in configuration during database
updates, which can be helpful for adding a new feature,
modifying existing features, or pushing changes to many
sites.

There is also a “spiritual successor” to the Confi module
called “Upgrade Tool” which has similar functionality with
some extra functionality too.
https://www.drupal.org/project/upgrade_tool