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The last two weeks the dust settled after an energetic and productive Drupalcon. Now there is a new stable release for all of the three most popular contrib modules Nuvole maintains: Config Filter, Config Split and Config Ignore.
Read full articleDrupal 9.3.0 was just released! It contains a lot of cool new things we are excited about but for users of Config Split there is one change that will impact on what is split off by Config Split.
Read full articleThank you for a great DrupalCon! Here are a few key findings and PDF slides from our Thursday talk, Drupal for European Universities: Data-based perspectives. Drupal is not leading (and not even the runner-up)
Read full articleThis morning was the session on Config Split 2.x. It introduced the new features of Config Split 2.x and why they are relevant for the planned new core module. Attached are the slides of the presentation.
Read full articleConfig Split has worked mostly the same way as it did when the first beta release was tagged in 2016. The 8.x-1.x branch is using Config Filter as the API to hook into the configuration management of Drupal. But since Drupal 8.8 we have a much better API in Drupal core which allows us to do more complex things with simpler code than the Config Filter API did. The core API was designed with the lessons learned from Config Filter in mind after all.
Read full articleLast week was the virtual DrupalCon Europe and I had the pleasure to present CMI 2 updates together with Moshe Weitzman. Attached to this post are the slides.
Read full articleAmsterdam is the first city to host three European DrupalCons: 2005 (first DrupalCon ever), 2014 and 2019 (ongoing). How many community members attended all three of them? We analyzed all user profiles published on drupal.org to find out this and much more.
Read full articleYesterday I presented the updates for the Configuration Management Initiative 2 at DrupalCon Amsterdam. The main takeaways are:
Read full articleWhen having to import data onto a Drupal 8 site there is no other choice than relying on core’s Migrate API and its contrib ecosystem. At Nuvole we have adopted a so called "middle-format approach". The process simply moves the Extract and Transform parts outside Drupal so to ease the production of an easy to import dataset, in a well known middle-format (such as JSON API).
Read full articleThere are a few significant changes that landed in Drupal 8.8 with respect to configuration management. In this blog post we will give an overview of the most important ones.
Read full articleToday I presented the CMI 2.0 updates at the drupal dev days in Cluj-Napoca. The session went well and I received good feedback and had interesting conversations about configuration management after it. Attached are the slides I presented.
Read full articleTomorrow Wednesday at 13:45 (Pacific Daylight Time) in room 6C we have the CMI 2.0 updates session at the Drupalcon. Together with Mike Potter, we will briefly present the work that has been done so far and lay out the road map for what is to come. The session will be recorded and the slides are attached to this post (subject to change).
Read full articleThe configuration management initiative 2.0 needs your help. I will be presenting updates of CMI 2.0 at the upcoming Drupalcon Seattle together with Mike Potter.
Read full articleConfig Distro allows distribution developers to say how the "distributions configuration" is supposed to be updated and it allows distribution-based site developers to treat the distribution maintainers as a developer on their team.
Read full articleDrupal 8.4 and its upgrade to Symfony 3 has made the compatibility of the global Drush 8 a bit more challenging. Drush 9 works with Drupal 8.4 but it is not stable yet and the format of how third party Drush commands are made has changed significantly.
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