The 2019 Drupal South sprint is shaping up to be the biggest contribution event in the Australia-Pacific region since Drupalcon Sydney 2013.
This year, core-contributors with over 3000 commit credits between them will be in attendance, including 3 members of the core committers team, 3 members of the Drupal security team, 7 core module/subsystem maintainers as well as maintainers of major contrib modules and command-line tools.
With Drupal 9 just around the corner, this will be a great chance to help the community get popular modules ready for Drupal 9, meet some great people and help shape the future of Drupal.
The PreviousNext team are sponsoring and helping to run the sprint day on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running on the day.
Several times in the past I've been caught out by Drupal's cron handler silently catching exceptions during tests.
Your test fails, and there is no clue as to why.
Read on to find out how to shine some light on this, by making your kernel tests fail on any exception during cron.
Drupal 8.5.0 will come with a new experimental module, Layout Builder.
What is layout builder? Well its basically panelizer in core.
Watch the screencast for a quick run down of how to setup, configure and use it.
In November 2017 I presented at Drupal South on using Dialogflow to power conversational interfaces with Drupal.
The video and slides are below, the demo in which I talk to Drupal starts in the first minute.
After reading a blog post by Matthias Noback on keeping an eye on code churn, I was motivated to run the churn php library over some modules in core to gauge the level of churn.
Is this something you might like to do on your modules? Read on for more information.
Need a way to mix fields from referenced entities with regular fields from managed display?
Then the Display Suite Chained Fields module might be for you.
From time to time you may find you need to extend another module's plugins to add new functionality.
You may also find you need to alter the signature of the constructor in order to inject additional dependencies.
However plugin constructors are considered internal in Drupal's BC policy.
So how do you safely do this without introducing the risk of breakage if things change.
In this article we'll show you a quick trick learned from Search API module to avoid this issue.
Services like dialogflow (formerly api.ai) do a much better job of natural language parsing (NLP) if they're aware of your entity names in advance.
For example, it can recognize that show me the weather in Bundabergis a request for weather in Bundaberg, if you've told it ahead of time that Bundaberg is a valid value for the City entity.
Having the entity values automatically update in your service of choice when they're created and changed in Drupal makes this much more efficient.
This article will show you how to achieve that.
In a recent project we were outputting CSV and wanted to test that the file contents were valid.
Read on for a quick tip on how to achieve this with Drupal 8's BrowserTestBase