Drupal 7 - What's new from an end-user perspective ?

Drupal 7 What’s new (from an end-user perspective) ?

Bird’s eye view • How did we get there ? • New minimum requirements • User experience improvements • New features • Geek stuff (that affects you) • When will it be ready ?

How did we get there?

Survey (1) • September 2007 by Dries Buytaert. • To better understand needs and prioritize efforts. • Ran 30+ days, collected more then 1000 responses. • http://buytaert.net/ﬁles/state-of- drupal-september-2007.pdf

Survey conclusions (1) • Better media handling • Custom content types in core • WYSIWYG editor • Better performance • Better tools to structure/organize content • Basic Views like module

Survey conclusions (2) • Automatic upgrade functionality • Improved node access system • Better internal APIs • Better external APIs (import/export, web services) • Usability

Drupal 7 UX project • User Experience. • Led by Mark Boulton and Lisa Reichelt. • Design in the open.

New minimum requirements

User Experience improvements

New administration theme “Seven”

Toolbar

Shortcuts

Dashboard

Contextual links

Overlays ??? (unﬁnished - this is a mockup)

Vertical tabs

Easier teaser/summary handling

Easier text format speciﬁcation (was input formats)

Completely revamped administration navigation

Permission descriptions

Human readable permission names

Administrator role

Poor man’s cron

Content, help, footer, ... are blocks now

Improved support for integration of WYSIWYG editors.

New Features

Improved installer

Fields (was CCK) in core

Fields on CONTENT

Fields on TERMS

Fields on USERS (bye bye proﬁle)

Fields on “EVERYTHING”

Image styles (was imagecache)

STARK, CSS only theme

Module and theme installer

Update manager

Improved language negotiation

Improved timezone support

Improved translation interface

Translation contexts

Geek Stuff (that affects you)

Simpletests : all new code should have coverage

DBTNG • PDO based db layer • Better support for PostGreSQL • SQLite support • Master Slave support • Transaction support

... more geek stuff • PHP stream wrappers to support pluggable storage mechanisms and access to remote resources (e.g. S3 storage or Flickr photos). • Better support for HTTP proxies.

That’s all ? CHANGELOG.txt

When will it be ready?

It’s ready when it’s ready. Dries Buytaert

When is “when it’s Number of critical issues is ZERO.

Drupal release policy • “Everyone considering Drupal should understand that Drupal development is always about improvement and staying on the cutting edge.” • Dries: “... it was decided that we can break people’s code, but not peoples data.” • “There is ALWAYS a path for updating your site with Drupal core.”

Where are we ?

Can’t wait ?

My opinion ? Text

Questions?

Contact • Davy Van Den Bremt • davy.vandenbremt@calibrate.be • twitter.com/davyvandenbremt • drupalcoder.com • drupal.org/user/185175

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Drupal 7 - What's new from an end-user perspective ?

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