WordPress can help retain the Open Web. I was disheartened to hear Dries say basically we can’t stop the open web from closing. I don’t disagree with him about the increasing dominance of a few key players in our daily lives online, but I think the antidote to that is the continued presence of many smaller players, enabled by technologies like WordPress. The IndieWebCamp movement, BarCamp, and WordCamp all suggest to me a strong and vibrant future for the truly open web.
Seven theme is a special case that has to cover a lot of ground: It has to be completely accessible Mobile friendly Provide consistency across 20.000 modules Stand the test of time – as it is often the main way people interact with Drupal and one of the main ways people come to understand the Drupal brand. This is a proposal, so we hope to receive loads of feedback.
Poll has been removed from core in Drupal 8 so now welcome to contrib, Poll!
Poll module allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions.
Drupal finally began replacing NIH with PIE. Compare Drupal's 8.x branch a year ago with it today. A year ago, we had one class of 3rd party PHP code, in an uninteresting corner of the update system. Today, it contains 3rd party code from no less than five different projects: Symfony, Doctrine, Guzzle, Assetic, and Twig. Those libraries are included via Composer, the new and ground-breaking PHP-library-management-system-that-actually-finally-works.
Drupal finally began replacing NIH with PIE. Compare Drupal's 8.x branch a year ago with it today. A year ago, we had one class of 3rd party PHP code, in an uninteresting corner of the update system. Today, it contains 3rd party code from no less than five different projects: Symfony, Doctrine, Guzzle, Assetic, and Twig. Those libraries are included via Composer, the new and ground-breaking PHP-library-management-system-that-actually-finally-works.
Everyone agrees menu links should be entities. Jury is out on Menus => Let us do menu links to start with and that will inform subsequent thought. We can, nevertheless, say that the original idea of menus as bundles of menu links is off the table.
I believe as fago is currently using the terms:
Property: A compound data element on an Entity (basically what we call "Fields" in Drupal 7).
Field: A special case of a Property that is user-added rather than defined by the module that declares the Entity type.
Everyone agrees menu links should be entities. Jury is out on Menus => Let us do menu links to start with and that will inform subsequent thought. We can, nevertheless, say that the original idea of menus as bundles of menu links is off the table.
I believe as fago is currently using the terms:
Property: A compound data element on an Entity (basically what we call "Fields" in Drupal 7).
Field: A special case of a Property that is user-added rather than defined by the module that declares the Entity type.
When I look through these two lists I see a lot that is developer focused. Better internal and external APIs are definitely targeted at developers and those are 2 of the 11 goals for Drupal 7. When it comes to Drupal 8 configuration management and web services are both things that have a definite impact on coders. The html 5 initiative was for front end developers. Without even digging down into these initiatives I can see a top down approach of developers as a target audience.