The document summarizes Andrey Postnikov's presentation on Drupal core ideas and initiatives. It discusses Postnikov's background in Drupal development and maintenance. It then outlines the agenda to cover the Drupal release cycle, active core initiatives, proposed ideas for Drupal core, planned changes to Drupal.org, and the Drupal governance process. Key active initiatives discussed include improving media handling, fields and layouts, workflows, and the API-first approach.

1. Drupal core ideas
Andrey Postnikov, 2017

2. About me
● 10 years in Drupal Development
● Top 20 core 7 & 8 contributor
● Maintaining 3 Drupal 8 core modules
● Contributor to more than 50 projects
● https://www.drupal.org/u/andypost

3. Agenda
Roadmap & release cycle
Active core initiatives
Drupal core ideas
Drupal.org changes
Governance process

4. Drupal release cycle

5. Community initiatives for core (past)
https://www.drupal.org/node/2107085
Configuration management
Multilingual
HTML5 / Mobile first / JavaScript
Views in Drupal core (VDC)
Web Services Initiative (WSCCI)
Scotch (Layouts)
https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core

6. Community initiatives for core (now)
API-first Initiative
Layout Initiative
Media Initiative
PHPUnit Initiative
Workflow Initiative
https://www.drupal.org/about/strategic-initiatives

7. Drupal core ideas
Idea ~ 70
Proposed Plan - 9
Approved Plan - 1 (IFE)
Active initiative - 12
https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas

8. Active initiatives
Media handling + essentials
Layouts for fields (ds in core) + builder
Workflow
API first
Migrate
Datetime module improvements
Out of The Box experience initiative

9. Drupal.org changes
DA resources https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/roadmap
Composer support
Documentation
Content style guide
Issue queue improvements

10. Governance & do-ocracy
The Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL): The founder and chief decision-maker for the project.
Core Committers: The small subset of people who, along with the BDFL, can commit changes to
Drupal core itself. Within the core committer team there are:
Product Managers: Focus on user-facing features and Drupal's user experience.
Framework Managers: Focus on cohesiveness of Drupal's architecture, APIs, and developer
experience.
Release Managers: Focus on processes to increase release stability, and on facilitating effective
collaboration among contributors.
https://www.drupal.org/contribute/core/maintainers

11. Thank you!
Questions?
Andy Postnikov
Drupal contributor
https://www.drupal.org/u/andypost