Backdrop CMS Weekly, 9 Mar 2017

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Today’s development agenda: http://bit.ly/2m0RUbe

A

It's the backdrop meeting for march nine 2016 and we gave together every week to talk about development tasks for the backdrop project Jen. Do you wanna? Take it away sure.

B

And so we'll start off with updates from the PMC and I. Don't think we have anything exciting going on this week, um Nate cube scroll, the Google document down, so we can see the next I. Don't pray alright.

B

So this is a new section that Jeff added this week, because we have a ton of stuff going on in can trim, and so we have two new contributors since our last meeting or since we last talked about it, we have um yes UT and fans, e or Fonzie uh all created new backdrop modules, which is pretty exciting.

B

We've got alternate, hreflang tag, italic and audio field that were added to the crib repo recently, and we also have a ton of modules with new releases meditech services that are exposed filters and node q, I think there's probably a bunch of others too, since we last talked about it, but these were all in the last week so especially exciting to get those out on and for those of you who are running existing backdrop sites. There are some security releases out there.

B

Now too, so definitely recommend taking a look at your status report and seeing what needs to be updated. If anything, um all right uh backdrop, CMS org issues apologize. I just missed the outreach meeting, but it sounds like there was some discussion on how to move the new homepage redesign forward. I would encourage anyone who wants to work at that to check out issue number 301, which is now a meta issue that has a bunch of subtasks for implementing that new homepage and some of those are things that can happen in parallel.

B

So um if you guys wanted to start working on like layouts separately or some of those new sub pages or some of the new content types and stuff separately, the design and theme implementation, those might be a good ways to push that forward without getting blocked on work. Anyone else is doing so good for thought. There um I don't know if anyone who was in the outreach meeting wants to give an update on that- or we should just say like go. Watch the outreach, video and we'll move on here. There.

C

Actually was not an outreach video for that. It was more of an informal discussion. I chatted a Luke in the in the get er, but he can't make it on the calls today and he doesn't have any time to get together and work on it. We talked about perhaps doing some sort of sprint to help with this issue, but I don't know when anyone is time.

C

I think that I'm going to try to work on the stuff on Saturday, maybe like late saturday morning, early Saturday afternoon, and I will send out a message to see if anyone else is online, maybe we could just jump on a hangout or something like that just to now, because nate- and I were talking about how it might be good- to get like sort of multiple people on lies to be sort of a virtual sprint to sort of keep moving things along. Since these.

B

C

Are often too big for one person to figure out all in the room, yeah.

B

Well, we did have that meeting last week and broke it down into smaller tasks.

C

B

Be a good first step if we get everyone working on the same time, that would be fantastic. I would like to volunteer to help on saturday, but Saturday is triple camps Stanford and we're giving a talk at 1pm, um so it would either have to be before after that. Well.

C

Good job doing that talk all.

B

Right, I am also super excited about getting the homepage thing done, so I would love to help with that, however, possible um and getting sanitized database dumps automated and put some place for anyone can grab at any time is um on our to-do list. So hopefully we can at least get you guys what you need this week and then set that up. Sal it'll be easier for people to get them as needed in the future.

B

um Okay. Other things we're working on is the backrub CMS stop org forum, which lives at forum that backdrop CMS, org, um I, think where we're at right now, as we just need to get bakery module set up. Anyone who wants to use the forum as it is in its current state can, but you need to create your own account their first.

B

It would be better if you could just kind of log in with your account from backdrop CMS toward the primary site, um so that is the one thing that's kind of preventing us from telling everyone about the forum. Also, I was thinking once we get the new theme for our homepage or a design done. We could drop that onto the forum back trip, CM esta org site and see if that would work.

B

As our theme there right now we're just using bartók and black, which is the same thing we have on our API site, which is fine, but hopefully that new theme we can put everywhere once it's ready, we'll see that might be a pipe dream. um Okay, we do have a new server setup, I. Think I, don't know if what this was ready. Last week or not I, don't remember, I think it might have been um large designs set up a new server, that's the exact copy of our old server.

B

So we have a place to test all of this bakery stuff on a production like environment. Only thing left on that is getting sub domain setup, so something's, actually pointing at it and I. Think Nate. That's gonna fall to you because you're, the only one that has a DNS access to make those changes. Yeah.

A

Shell is our intention with this new server to move everything over there.

B

Or no, this is.

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Test server, okay,.

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An exact copy of the existing infrastructure, it's like, however, you did that linode clone thing, that's what we did. Okay,.

A

So it's not at all related to migrate into PHP 7 or anything like that. No.

B

I think large designs was just gonna update. He might have already done that update the current server. Oh okay, I was looking for some new, like yum repositories or something last I heard so I, don't know if that's done yet or not, but he's working on it. Okay,.

A

I just saw the picture that he put on the uh did. You I know the.

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Is most excellent, hang on yeah? This is totally irrelevant, but I'm gonna do it anyway, just because it's amazing green.

B

Chair of Dragon grr.

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Stairs exit truck, it's.

B

Like that's like drops, mom something it's like a big mean dragon.

A

Okay, that thought some uh yay Lars design. We love you.

A

Okay, let's go back to the screen chair, okay, um so.

B

Anyway, I think um where we are with the forum is we're kind of close enough to use it ourselves, but it would be great if we could get bakery working on it. Water bakery is right. Now the module has been ported when you log in from one side to another site, it does copy. Your user account details from the main site to the sub site, but does not share the cookie, which is what it's supposed to do.

B

um So I have to dig dig through some pho um code there and figure out why the cookie isn't being shared across sites, so I think it's close, but every time I say that I spent like an hour looking at and don't get it any farther, so maybe fresh eyes today. Well, um okay, translation, server, I haven't looked at this since last week, but it sounds like it's going pretty well. Does anyone else know any more about this than I? Do.

A

Now the last thing that I saw was I, checked in and how often said the tea eat gotten to the point if he can get actual strings translated and saved and downloaded, but there's still no progress on the the public-facing portion of the website. So you have to create an account and because of the lack of bakery you know you have to actually create an account than have it be approved by administrator answers completely separate.

B

But we do get back great bakery, ported and working on backdrops e masta org. We can also put the Drupal 7 worship bakery on the local I server and that should share across backdrop and Drupal with no problem as well. It.

A

Should yeah, assuming that our port is true, then that they should work just they do the same thing triple six and seven and actually probably doing the same thing between seven and eight right now and in the world of Drupal. So.

A

So I don't think that I don't think there's any substantial updates on the localization server. Ok,.

B

So this what I don't really even know where we are with that, but we have a translation of backdrop. They're, like you can download translations, but you can't create them. Is that the problem like as a user.

A

um No I think you can do both if you have the proper permissions right.

B

Okay and then what languages are we supporting right now, like? What's already there just.

A

Wait right now he's just set up like a couple of tests: languages: okay, yeah, there's like four languages in there. Okay.

B

That's great um all right. So uh next on the list is backdrop CMS its self, which I don't think has been getting a ton of attention lately. But Nate do you want to give us an update on where we are yeah.

A

It's actually been a fair amount of action, as always in the issue queue, but not on the items that we have called out during these meetings, and so I know that there's been a pretty continuous stream of PRS that have been coming in that some of them are minor, some of them a little bit more substantial for the 1.7 release, but to the items that we've got well.

A

Okay, let's talk about 1.6 to first of all, so there's a the issue tracker for 1.62 and there are a number of items that you know: I've actually been completed and pulled out. Actually I guess, there's mostly a number of items.

A

That's are in review, but haven't actually been closed out, but due to other concerns, we know that we're going to have a 1.62 released this week coming up a week from now, basically on Wednesday, so so we'll go through these and try to at least get all of the items that are clearly ready for merge into the 1.6 to release they'll come out next week.

A

That's always on point: six tube, just a minor fix, is still going in a regular pace. The 1.7 release, which comes out mate, 15 2017. As I noted. These three items that we've got pulled out here page element blocks lat relationships in the reference module. Don't have updates of notes that we can really call up this week. Each one of these items have specific issues that you can see here in the video 1704 2134 and reference modules. It's only sheet you.

A

We still need mostly people to be using these PRS and/or modules and submitting feedback to them, especially that the two items related to layouts. That's really a review issue more than anything else, architectural e. They actually look really good. The reference model needs an upgrade path, as well as some other things, so that requires both feedback and additional development.

A

It's also a bucketload of issues that are attract for the 1.7 release and that we haven't been calling out. Fine and some of those have been moving forward as well, but but I won't mention them here to check them out and github issue tracker under 1.7 Oh milestone.

A

That's all I've got so nothing on the agenda to actually post updates about, but things are moving on individual issues just once that a little less important in these.

A

That's it next up is general discussion in QA. You guys have any questions about the status of things or anything else that we want to bring up. Please do so now.

A

No nothing at all, okay. Well, as always, we will have a little bit after talk as you can see on screen so, but thank you. Everybody for watching I think you're ready for joining, and we will talk to you guys next week. Bye.