Friday, July 28, 2023
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal core issues with low risk may be treated as public bugs rather than private security issues
- last chance to adopt Drupal 7 contrib projects that might be marked unsupported
- an updated plan for Drupal 11
- roadmap for Drupal 10.2, 10.3, and beyond
- GitLab CI now enabled for every project on drupal.org
- introducing the new dashboard initiative
- new "negated regular expression" operator for views filters
- DrupalCon Lille 2023 schedule published
- Retrofit's next milestone: Drupal 7 theme support
- DrupalCon Pitch-burgh updates for July 2023
- Drupal Event Platform makes major strides in 2023
- how the Smart Date module helps create events on Drupal websites
- component-based theming with Drupal's Single Directory Component
- Smart Trim module - past, present and future
- Jacqui Young: came for the community, stayed for the code
- using Default Content Deploy to create testing content
- guide to extending Drupal Views with contrib modules
- changing how to approach theming in Drupal
- bringing collaborative editing to the Drupal node
- using Drupal's licence to innovate
- Pantheon launches their community hub
- KitKat gets a break with Drupal
Next, we moved on to general web notes:
- joint concerns in the open source community over the proposed Cyber Resilience Act in the EU
- open letter sent to the EU on the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
- see the letter sent to the EU (PDF)
- new to the web platform in June
- the new @font-face syntax
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Drupal Unit testing has never been easier, with Test Helpers!" from DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for August 18, 2023.