Our next Drupal Drop-In Help Session is in the Georgia Tech library, break-out room #4111. Please be aware that the library has moved into Crosland Tower, with entrances now located on the first floor near the old Price Gilbert building entrance, and on the ground floor near the Old CE building. After entering the building, proceed up either the elevators or the stairs (stairs now located along the east and west sides of the building) to the fourth floor.
We have received numerous questions about Drupal 8 and Georgia Tech websites in the past few months. To help facilitate discussion and timelines for Drupal 8, here are some helpful dates, links, and resources to guide your planning, strategy, and timelines for Drupal 8 on campus!
Georgia Tech's central Drupal 8 theme and associated plugins are managed via Institute Communications, which has posted a rough Drupal 8 theme development timeline.
Of note from the timeline:
Drupal 8 brings some changes to web development best practices with the adoption and proliferation of composer.
For campus units looking to use composer on OIT Web Hosting, we strongly recommend metroplus. Metroplus is a command-line interface (CLI) tool allowing tools such as drush, composer, and git on webhosting.
To learn more and join metroplus, please contact Michael Sheldon in the College of Sciences.
While it is still a bit early for most site owner to begin building new sites in Drupal 8, you may want to start your strategic planning so that you're ready to go when the right theming resources become available. A guide to migrating Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 is available, as is a more specific guide to planning for migrating Drupal Express sites to Drupal 8.
The Georgia Tech Drupal 7 theme will be updated to the new 2018 "Tech Gold" (metalic gold) design in late winter 2019, per Institute Communications' Drupal 8 timeline.
