Proposed Core Conversations

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Session
Sustainable core (and contrib) maintainership Problem The current method of very limited core maintainers is often viewed as very limiting by those in the community. How can we more adapt the core contribution process to not make the process... Dave Reid
Advanced Entities: Revisioning Problem The Entity... miro_dietiker
Hierarchical permissions Drupal's permission system is not powerful enough in many use cases and it can be extremely hard to use the administration UI. Come to this core conversation to discuss how we can improve it.... balintk
Autosanitization Problem Drupal modules suffer from a constant stream of security issues due to missing or wrong sanitization. No wonder: Even as experienced developer it is often not clear where and how to sanitize... axel.rutz
The schedule, strategy, and status, of *.drupal.org The www.drupal.org D7 Upgrade Initiative We're currently in the middle of upgrading our own drupal.org website(s) from D6 to D7. In this talk, we'll cover what we've done so far, the pain points we... Senpai, tvn
Testing Drupal.org During the Drupal.org D7 upgrade sprint, the Git team chose to use Behat and Mink as a functional testing framwork for our work on Drupal.org. Our task at hand was to upgrade existing Git-related... eliza411, tizzo
Drupal's menu system: - Threads to disentangle, junk to remove, and pearls to keep UPDATE: This session was rejected by .. well, the email didn't tell who makes these decisions. The decision was made around a month ago, I just did not take the time to come here yet. And anyway... donquixote
Rethinking the theme layer for Drupal 8 This conversation is to discuss a new theme layer for Drupal 8. Everyone's frustrated by theme development in Drupal 7. It's confusing, inconsistent, and just too hard to learn. We've decided... chx, EclipseGc, Jacine, jenlampton, quicksketch, mortendk, davidneedham, effulgentsia, JohnAlbin
Statistics.module As we all know the statistics module is full of fail. It is useful for many many things, but on anything more than a simple site it just doesn't work. Caching such as Varnish causes in accurate... timmillwood

Session

Sustainable core (and contrib) maintainership

Problem The current method of very limited core maintainers is often viewed as very limiting by those in the community. How can we more adapt the core contribution process to not make the process...

Dave Reid

Advanced Entities: Revisioning

Problem The Entity...

miro_dietiker

Hierarchical permissions

Drupal's permission system is not powerful enough in many use cases and it can be extremely hard to use the administration UI. Come to this core conversation to discuss how we can improve it....

balintk

Problem Drupal modules suffer from a constant stream of security issues due to missing or wrong sanitization. No wonder: Even as experienced developer it is often not clear where and how to sanitize...

axel.rutz

The schedule, strategy, and status, of *.drupal.org

The www.drupal.org D7 Upgrade Initiative We're currently in the middle of upgrading our own drupal.org website(s) from D6 to D7. In this talk, we'll cover what we've done so far, the pain points we...

Senpai, tvn

Testing Drupal.org

During the Drupal.org D7 upgrade sprint, the Git team chose to use Behat and Mink as a functional testing framwork for our work on Drupal.org. Our task at hand was to upgrade existing Git-related...

eliza411, tizzo

Drupal's menu system: - Threads to disentangle, junk to remove, and pearls to keep

UPDATE: This session was rejected by .. well, the email didn't tell who makes these decisions. The decision was made around a month ago, I just did not take the time to come here yet. And anyway...

donquixote

Rethinking the theme layer for Drupal 8

This conversation is to discuss a new theme layer for Drupal 8. Everyone's frustrated by theme development in Drupal 7. It's confusing, inconsistent, and just too hard to learn. We've decided...

chx, EclipseGc, Jacine, jenlampton, quicksketch, mortendk, davidneedham, effulgentsia, JohnAlbin

Statistics.module

As we all know the statistics module is full of fail. It is useful for many many things, but on anything more than a simple site it just doesn't work. Caching such as Varnish causes in accurate...

timmillwood