Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about PHP End of Life with Josh Waihi & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/369

• PHP End of Life (EoL)
• Why does PHP go EoL
• When will php 8.0 EoL
• How are dates scheduled
• Who is in charge
• How do you prepare as a developer
• How do you prepare as a platform
• Acquia is supporting for one more year
• Pantheon has no forced upgrades
• How do you find edge cases
• Do you speak with PHP maintainers
• What are the changes to be excited about 7 > 8
• For D7 this is challenging, any tips?

• https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8
• https://medium.com/jakob-on-drupal/dont-go-making-major-version-changes-474293dda1d7
• https://dev.acquia.com/article/how-select-drupal-modules-part-3-evaluation-tips

Matt Glaman - @nmdmatt Josh Waihi - @joshwaihi

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

HTTP Cache Control HTTP Cache Control module helps fine grain control of Drupal's Cache Control headers.

Today we are talking about Image Optimization with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

For show notes and more visit:

www.talkingDrupal.com/368

• Image optimization
• Why it is important
• Performance
• Accessibility and Inclusion
• Techniques with Drupal
• Image formats
  • webp
  • svg
  • avif
• Drupal support
• What to do before uploading
• Educating content editors
• Difference in formats
• Helpful modules and tools
  • Core
    • Image Styles
    • Responsive Images
  • Contrib
    • Blazy for older sites
    • Crop API, and Focal Point or Image Widget Crop
    • WebP or similar
    • SVG Image Field
    • Image Optimize API, and Local Binaries Resmush.it or similar
  • Image Library
    • Imagemagick
    • GD Library
• Anything else

• Board Elections
• Web Almanac 2022 - Median page weight over time
• Web Almanac 2022 - Median page weight by content type
• PreviousNext - Better image optimisation in Drupal
• Browser Calories extension
• What are NextGen Web Formats?
• AVIF vs GIF: The battle for the animated picture format
• www.Webpagetest.org
  • Shows full waterfall of the page and how it loads
• Helpful Modules
  • Blazy for older sites
  • Crop API
  • Focal Point
  • Image Widget Crop
  • WebP or similar
  • SVG Image Field
  • Image Optimize API, and Local Binaries
  • Resmush.it or similar
  • Imagemagick
• Talking Drupal 348: Carbon footprint

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

Toolbar Manager Allow a site builder to customize what items appear in the toolbar:

• Change text labels
• Add classes (e.g. to add icons)
• Or hide entirely

Today we are talking about Not Gaming the Credit System with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes and more information visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/367

• Episode 361
• Who governs credit
• What is "Gaming the System"
• What is the motivation to game the system
• What are the penalties
• How is the Credit System used
• How big of a problem is this
• Why is this a difficult problem
• Mike Herchel's blog post
• First time contributions
• What to do if you see issues

• Helping Maintain High Value Drupal Contributions
• To participate in the discussion
• Talking Drupal - 361 Drupal Credit System
• Talking Drupal #265 - People Powered

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Facets The Facet module allows site builders to easily create and manage faceted search interfaces. In addition to the UI components that come out of the box, themers and module developers can build their own widgets that can optionally be contributed back to Drupal.org. Facets work with Drupal Core Search and Search API, meaning that code and configuration can be reused as-is with the most popular search solutions available to Drupal.

Today we are talking about The Schema.org Blueprints Module with Jacob Rockowitz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/366

• What is Schema.org
• What is the Schema.org first approach
• Is this just for SEO
• What is the Schema.org Blueprints Module
• What are the goals
• How does this module benefit your project
• Can you give us a demo
• Why Paragraphs
• How do you handle schema you do not need
• How do you handle missing schema
• Have any sites used this
• What is your maintenance approach
• Roadmap
• Recommendations
• Contributing to Schema.org

• Introducing the Schema.org Blueprints Module for Ambitious Drupal Site Builders
• Schema.org Blueprints project page
• Schema.org-first blog posts
  • The future of our Drupal CMS and Schema.org: APIs, UI, and UX
  • Using a Schema.org-First approach to build a single source of truth and a unified Content Management System
  • Exploring a Schema-First approach to Drupal and Content Management Systems
• Videos
  • Here is a 7 minute demo of the module's features and functionality
  • Here is a demo of a podcast Github issue

Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Flex Field Defines a new "FlexField" field type that lets you create simple inline multiple-value fields without having to use entity references.

Today we are talking about The Event Platform with Kaleem Clarkson & Martin Anderson-Clutz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/365

• Where the idea originated
• What are the main goals
• What does it do out of the box
• Is this a Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) Replacement
• Why make a module and not a distribution
• Does this follow the new recipe or starter kit concept
• Which theme do you target
• What is on the roadmap
• Where can the event platform team use help
• Anything else

• Event Platform Module
• Smart Date
• Event Organizers Working Group
• COD
• Drupal Event Platform Initiative

Kaleem Clarkson - kaleemclarkson.com @kaleemclarkson Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi

Smart Date This module attempts to provide a more user-friendly date field, by upgrading the functionality of core in a number of ways.

Today we are talking about Cypress with Jordan Graham.

www.talkingDrupal.com/364

• What is Cypress
• Why testing is important
• What can you test
• What can you not test
• Test cases
• Difference between Behat and Cypress
• Syntax
• Drupal and Cypress
• Cypress module
• Test DB
• Speed of tests
• Module Ecosystem for Cypress
• Test runner
• Fixtures
• Email testing
• Grouping tests
• Order of testing
• Security

cypress.io Email handling extension Tech Radar #1 tech to adopt Colorado talk: Not yet online Webinar version is available at Aten's website Repo for project Cypress Drupal Module

Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Views Aggregator Plus As the Views and Views Calc modules rely on the database to perform aggregation, you only have limited options at your disposal. As the great Merlin himself said: "You can't aggregate a PHP expression in the database. :/ ". That's where Views Aggregator Plus comes in.

Today we are talking about Working Within Your Values with Cathy Theys & Tess Flynn.

www.talkingDrupal.com/363

• What guides our choices?
• How to maintain values at work
• Matching values with your company
• How to approach conflict or misalignment
• How to consider or change previous choices
• Maintaining values for smaller conflicts

• ADR
• https://www.lullabot.com/values

Tess Flynn - https://deninet.com/

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Cathy Theys - @YesCT

Representative Image Allows you to define representative image or media fields for entities like nodes, taxonomy terms and the like. These can then be used in Open Graph meta tags (via tokens); as fields in views; or embedded as tokens. The media module is also supported. A default image can be defined for those entities without images.

Today we are talking about Progressive Web Apps with Alex Borsody and Wilfred Arambhan.

www.talkingDrupal.com/362

• What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
• How is a PWA different from a native app or cross platform app
• What features point towards a PWA
• What features are difficult to implement
• Where do they store their data
• What are some use cases
• What does the PWA module do
• Why would you use the PWA module
• Potential enhancements to the PWA module
• Google's Plans
• Security

• A Drupal developer's guide to Progressive Web Apps
• An almost complete guide to PWAs+, using Drupal as the glue code (though many other technology will do)
• Project Fugu/web capabilities
• Web capabilities tracker.
  • WebAuthn
  • Web Workers
  • Programmable cache
  • What Web Can Do
• Native/App store submission
  • Ionic
  • WKWebView
• evaluateJavascript()
  • https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/wkwebview/how-to-run-javascript-on-a-wkwebview-with-evaluatejavascript
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activity/
  • https://www.pwabuilder.com/
• Moonraft
• carbonPay

Alex Borsody - @alexborsody Wilfred Arambhan - @wilfredarambhan

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Cathy Theys - @YesCT

Responsive Tables Filter It makes the following tables responsive:

• Any tables within fields where Drupal text format filters can be applied
• Views tables

Today we are talking about The Drupal Credit System with Matthew Tift.

www.talkingDrupal.com/361

• What is the Drupal Credit system
• How is credit given
• How is credit tracked on the backend
• What is the trickiest part of integration
• Contributions are weighted, how is that handled
• Why are contributions weighted
• Are non code contributions included in the Drupal Credit system
• How do you run analytics on the data
• What is changing with the credit system
• Other communities are thinking of integrating a credit system what are lessons shared

• Drupal Contribution Credits
• Drupal Marketplace
• Matthew's website (the hub for everything he does)
• How We Compare: Leaderboards and Related Comparison Metrics in the Drupal Community (2021)
• Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project (2021)
• Drupal's Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability (2021)
  • All Things Open
  • GitLab Commit
• Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen
• DrupalCon Seattle: The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars (2019)
• Who Sponsors Drupal Development? (2016)
• The Cultural Construction of Drupal (2015)
• Gitlab issue on credit system
  • Issue
  • Epic
• Interpreting drupal core commit history
• CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) metric
  • Contribution Attribution

Matthew Tift - matthewtift.com @matthewtift

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Cathy Theys - @YesCT

Entity Redirect Adds a configurable redirect after saving a node or other entity. The redirect is configurable per bundle. Also, given sufficient permissions (and presuming it is enabled for that specific content/bundle), individual users can configure their own redirects (on their profile edit page).

Today we are talking about Backdrop CMS with Eric Toupin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/360

• What is backdrop
• How did you hear about it
• Tell us about Aten and your clients
• What type of work is Aten doing with Stanford
• Why was Backdrop CMS considered
  • How long was Backdrop out before you considered it
• Are there features Backdrop has that Drupal does not have
• What are some limitations of Backdrop
• If someone has Drupal 7 what do you consider the criteria for Backdrop vs Drupal 9
• Are you working on other Backdrop sites
• Do you consider Backdrop it's own CMS
• Have you contributed anything back to Drupal from Backdrop
• Does Aten consider Backdrop a service it provides

• Talking Drupal #17 - Backdrop
• Talking Drupal #218 - Backdrop
• Talking Drupal # 319 - Backdrop CMS
• Justin Toupin - Talking Drupal #337
• Cypress

Eric Toupin - www.drupal.org/u/erictoupin

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Cathy Theys - @YesCT

hreflang The core Content Translation module adds hreflang tags only on content entity pages. This module, on the other hand, adds hreflang tags to all pages, and can be configured to defer to Content Translation module on content entity pages. If for some reason you'd like to modify the hreflang tags on a page, you can do so by implementing