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 Views AJAX History Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.