Friday, June 19, 2020
This week's Web Dev Rev notes started with Drupal:
Drupal releases: 7.72, 8.9.1 and 9.0.1- Olivero theme alpha3 released
- Drupal Association staff taking antiracism training (that is free to the general public until June 30)
- DrupalCon Barcelona pushed back
- Webchick asks why people want more of contrib in core
- how the first virtual DrupalCon will look and feel
- Drupal in COVID-19: community learning for ME
- the story of the Drupal India Association
- look who's talking about Drupal 9
- Drupal 8 vs Drupal 9: more features for content editors
- how and when to upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9
- top Drupal 8 modules - "Rain" edition
- using Drupal permissions to manage access in central organizations with subsidiary groups
- working with the Devel module to generate dummy content
- finding out what blocks editors are using with Layout Builder
Next we had the more general web notes:
- Github to replace "master" with alternative term
- what is Developer Experience (DX)?
- Twitter announces voice Tweets
- voice Tweets have no captioning or transcripts
- a way to add captions to voice Tweets
- Twitter product designer apologizes for not including accessibility features in voice Tweets
- web vitals
We ended the meeting by recommending people watch the following video: "How Drupal.org is built" from MidCamp 2020.
Web Dev Rev will be back next week, on Friday, June 26th at 11:00am.