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Talking Drupal Newsletter #397

May 4, 2023
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#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

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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.


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.

Submit your questions on the #alkingDrupal channel on Drupal Slack or DM us on twitter @talkingdrupal.

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

  • Drupaljam 2023 :connected 06/01 - 06/02. In person

  • 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


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

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.


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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