Quantcast
Channel: Blog
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 30 View Live

Announcing Drutopia

Drutopia is an initiative within the Drupal project that prioritizes putting the best online tools into the hands of grassroots groups. By embracing the liberatory possibilities of free software and...

View Article



The Coming Drupal Fork

Conditions are ripe for a fork of the Drupal project. But what kind of fork?In recent days there's been a bunch of insightful and thought provoking reflection within the Drupal community (as well as a...

View Article

From Critique to Action: Transforming Drupal Through User-Centered Economics

As controversy swirls around the Drupal project leadership, community members are asking searching questions about the role of corporate influence in the project.It's a good time to take a step back...

View Article

Managing Shared Configuration Part 1: Configuration Providers

At the Drutopia project, one of our big focuses has been improvements to configuration management in Drupal 8. In this series, I'll be covering our work to date along with related efforts and...

View Article

Managing Shared Configuration Part 2: Configuration Snapshots

This is the second installment in a series presenting configuration management work that comes out of the Drutopia initiative.In part 1 of this series, Configuration Providers, we introduced the...

View Article


Managing Shared Configuration Part 3: Respecting Customizations

This is the third installment in a series presenting configuration management work that comes out of the Drutopia initiative.In part 1 of this series, Configuration Providers, we introduced the problem...

View Article

Planning a website upgrade

In our work with nonprofits, we're often asked for guidance on whether and how to upgrade to a new website. When is it time to upgrade? What factors should we consider? If you're wondering if you...

View Article

Managing Shared Configuration Part 4: Configuration Alters

This is the fourth installment in a series presenting work on shared configuration that comes out of the Drutopia initiative. To catch up, see Part 1, Configuration Providers, Part 2, Configuration...

View Article


Managing Shared Configuration Part 5: Updating from Extensions

This is the fifth installment in a series presenting work on shared configuration that comes out of the Drutopia initiative and related efforts. To catch up, see Part 1, Configuration Providers, Part...

View Article


Managing Shared Configuration Part 6: Packaging Configuration with the...

This is the sixth installment in a series presenting work on shared configuration that comes out of the Drutopia initiative and related efforts, beginning with Part 1, Configuration Providers.Our main...

View Article

Drupal distributions, blocks, and subthemes

In Part 4 of a current series on managing shared configuration for Drupal distributions we looked at needs and options for altering configuration provided by extensions (modules, themes, or the site's...

View Article

Managing Shared Configuration Part 7: Core Configuration

This is the seventh and (promise!) penultimate installment in a series presenting work on shared configuration that comes out of the Drutopia initiative and related efforts, beginning with Part 1,...

View Article

Drupal and Governance

Way back in January 2005, I posted a proposal to improve the governance of the Drupal project and help make it "fully 'community-driven'". In response, one commenter wrote: Yesterday evening on the...

View Article


Managing Shared Configuration Part 8: Summary and Future Directions

This is the eighth and last installment in a series presenting work on shared configuration that comes out of the Drutopia initiative and related efforts. If you've stuck with it this far, wow! If you...

View Article

The Curse of the Haunted Drupal Site, Revisited!

Ten Halloweens ago I shared a story of Drupal haunting. The post survives only in the faint afterlife of archive.org's Wayback Machine, having long since disappeared from the site of CivicActions where...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 30 View Live




Latest Images