Composer in Core Initiative: What it will mean for you

Join the San Francisco Bay Area Drupal community the second Thursday of the month.

General Agenda:

• 5:30 - 6:00 pm: networking and socializing - Food sponsored by Red Crackle
• 6:00 - 6:15 pm: “Your Dose of Drupal Dialogue”
  — Discussion on what’s in Drupal news
  — Who is hiring in the SF Bay Area? Who needs to hire?
• 6:15 - 7:15 pm: Presentation: Composer in Core Initiative: What it will mean for you by Greg Anderson of Pantheon
• 7:15 - 7:30 pm: wrap up, more hanging out and chatting up Drupal
• 7:30 - Head to the local watering hole, Wooden Nickel at 1900 Folsom St.

Composer in Core Initiative: What it will mean for you

Drupal has leveraged Composer to manage its internal dependencies since version 8.0; however, the "Drupal way" of using Composer has been a little bit different than what is typically done in other Composer-based projects. To this day, many Drupal sites ignore Composer entirely, using Drupal-specific services such as Drush pm-update to download code from bespoke services provided by drupal.org.

Currently, there is an active initiative to change the relationship between Drupal and Composer to more closely align with the facilities provided by the standard Composer APIs. At the August SFDUG meeting, Greg Anderson will give an overview of what has been happening in the Composer In Core initiative, and how the changes slated for Drupal 8.8.0 will affect new and existing Drupal 8 sites. We will talk about drupal-composer/drupal-project, the Drupal Scaffold plugin, the Wikimedia Composer Merge plugin, subtree splits, Composer "path" repositories, and other gripping topics.

After attending this meetup, users will have a clearer understanding of the vision for Composer use in Drupal core, and what their options are for using Composer with their own sites moving forward.

https://groups.drupal.org/node/535234

About the speaker:
Greg Anderson (https://pantheon.io/team/greg-anderson) is an Open Source Contributor working directly on Drupal, Wordpress, and development tools such as Drush.
Greg started working with Drupal in 2009, and has been a co-maintainer of Drush since 2010. He has a passion for making the development workflow the best that it can be.

About the sponsor:
Red Crackle (http://redcrackle.com) is a Drupal-focused web development company based in San Francisco Bay Area since 2012. With developers in the US and India, it works with a wide variety of clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies such as VMWare, eBay, PayPal and Salesforce to develop Drupal websites and web applications ranging from e-commerce websites and intranets to news sites.
Red Crackle actively contributes back to Drupal by supporting various modules and uploading patches. It was the first organization to use PHPUnit with Drupal 7 and develop an automated integration testing framework, Red Test, which is still being used globally. Recently it is focusing on creating a visual programming module for Drupal, If Then Else (https://www.drupal.org/project/if_then_else), which it hopes will help site builders automate most of the functionality of the site without touching PHP code.

Where: Mission Center Building, UCSF Room MCB 6A
1855 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA
The building entrance is on a parking lot which is entered from 15th Street or Harrison

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