Today Tim Lehnen from the Drupal Association joins us to talk about some of the changes taking place on the Drupal.org website as part of Starshot.
For day 4 of the Drupal Advent calendar, it’s a familiar face: Drupal.org! When we say “Come for the code, stay for the community!” Drupal.org is where we welcome everyone to join us. Sure, you can find all the code, extensions, and documentation you need here, but Drupal.org is so much more. It’s the place where one of the greatest communities in open source gathers to communicate, collaborate, and celebrate.
Drupal.org is also a part of Drupal Starshot, in more ways than one!
Firstly, we’ve upgraded Drupal.org to modern Drupal, and given it a fresh new coat of paint. The new color palette and design language aims to make Drupal more approachable for users evaluating the software who haven’t yet been welcomed home to our community.
Drupal.org is also providing key functionality that will be part of both Drupal core and Drupal CMS. The first piece of the puzzle is the api endpoint for Project Browser. Project Browser aims to make discovering and installing Drupal extensions easier than ever, and all of that meta data comes from Drupal.org. We also need to make sure that when we install extensions or updates that those packages are delivered in a secure way. So Drupal.org’s packaging system securely signs Drupal packages using Rugged, an implementation of the TUF spec.
Drupal.org has been online for more than 20 years now, and it will continue to change and evolve. Look for more great things (like GitLab issues, Kanban boards, and more!) as we head into the new year.
Tim is the leader of the Drupal Association engineering team, whose specific mission is to empower the community to build Drupal. He has also recently published a young adult fantasy novel called Fog & Fireflies.
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