Talking Drupal Newsletter #397

#397 Semantic Versioning

Today we are talking about Semantic Versioning with Mike Miles.

Topics

• What is Semantic Versioning

• Why is it important

• How does Drupal 8 map to Semantic Versioning

  • 8.x

• What about betas, alphas, rcs

• How does it help dev teams stay organized

• When did you start thinking about Semantic Versioning

• Talk at NERD Summit

• Benefits of Semantic Versioning

• Other than the basics, how does your team use Semantic Versioning

• How do you move existing projects over to Semantic Versioning

• If someone wants to start using Semantic Versioning where should they look

Resources

• Drupal.org issue: What could Drupal implement from other CMS or content editors to improve its Admin Interface?

• Blog: Drupal Admin UX Study: What We Can Learn from Contentful, Craft CMS, Squarespace, and WordPress

• Managing Releases Using GIT Tags and Semantic Versioning

• Semantic Versioning Docs

• Mike’s NERD Summit talk

• Rands in repose

• Art of leadership - Lopp

Guests

Mike Miles - mike-miles.com @mikemiles86

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

Module of the Week

by Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Same Page Preview
Shows your content authors what their content will look like, while they’re creating it.

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Upcoming Episodes

#399 Working remotely. Recording May 9.
#400 400 with Dries Buytaert. Recording May 16.
#401 Data Lakes with Melissa Bent and April Sides. Recording May 23.
#402 ECA with Jürgen Haas. Recording May 30.

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Drupal Camps

• DrupalCamp Finland 04/28. In person

• Stanford WebCamp 05/11 - 05/12. Online

• DrupalCamp Ruhr 2023 05/12 - 05/13. In person

• DrupalCamp Poland 2023 05/13 - 05/14. In person

• DrupalSouth Wellington 05/17 - 05/20. In person

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• DrupalCamping Wolfsburg 06/15 - 06/19. In person

Local Meetups

• Tampa Bay Drupal User Group 05/04. In person

• A11Y Talks - Do you speak Accessibility? - A look at accessibility hurdles for language learning and linguistics 05/08. Online

• Drupal Somerset May-23 05/09. In person

• Brisbane meetup May’23 05/10. In person

• Drupal Melbourne meetup - May 2023 05/11. Online

• SFDUG - Technical Writing Workshop 05/11. Online

Training

• Advanced Drupal Theming 06/13 - 06/29. Online

• Code of Conduct Incident Response Workshop 06/14. Online

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Drops of Drupal

Small Drupal tips and tricks

#009 Drupal.org Switching Admin Theme from the Command Line

To get the current admin theme:

drush config:get system.theme admin

To set the admin theme, use the theme’s machine name:

drush config:set system.theme admin claro

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A Major Step Forward for Smart Date

by Martin Anderson-Klutz

The planning for a 4.0 release of Smart Date began towards the end of 2021, but there were still lots of opportunities to fix bugs and add features without going to a major release. In the end, the need for a major release was triggered by Drupal 10, though in actuality by its updated PHP dependency, to use a minimum version of 8.1. Continue reading at Mandclu’s Sandbox.

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Minifigure of the Week

by Nic Laflin

71034-11
This week I would like to share 71034-11 Knight of the Yellow Castle! This is the 11th figure in Series 23 of collectible minifigures. Released in 2022. Lego has been releasing more castle related themes recently!

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