So an awful lot of stuff happened in one week at Drupalcon.
I'm going to try to put together a summary of the various talks, presentations, sprints and chats that happened.
Tuesday March 8th
Dries' Keynote
One of the key points for this group was the desire of Dries to get HTML5 into core. This is a key point as it means we have buy-in from the top. Hopefully this should make it easier to convince others of the need to bring HTML5 into core.
The other key point was the plan to have 'Initiatives' which would be special projects that would be use to develop core work before they were merged back into the man Drupal 8 branch.
Rockin' HTML5 with Drupal by Jen Simmons
This was good overview of the Staet of HTML5 in Drupal right now.
Slides available at
http://jensimmons.com/presentations/rockin-html5-drupal/drupalcon-chicago
Wednesday March 9th
Core Conversations: Let's HTML5-ify Drupal
Led by Jen Simmions
Slides available at
http://www.jensimmons.com/presentations/lets-html5ify-drupal/drupalcon-c...
Jen laid out the battle plan for getting HTML5 into Drupal Core.
A key part of this is some design principles.
These are documented in the Core Initiatives part of the Handbook,
but are not fixed in stone. They will be trashed out in the forums on drupal.org, where we'll have our own section.
There was some good discussion in this session.
One of the key points mentioned was that we should, as far as possible, rely on data for making decisions, rather than guessing in the dark.
HTML5 BOF.
A general discussion about getting HTML5 into Drupal core.
The key take home point for me was that HTML5 has a number of constituent parts: Form Elements, Markup, Web workers, Geolocation etc, and when speaking about HTML5 we should be more specific of the context.
We talked a bit more about the practicalities of having a HTML5 initiative.
A general consensus was that will have an initiative lead, with subsystem leads for different parts for HTML5.
For now, those individuals are:
Initiative Lead: Jen Simmons
Markup Lead: Tim Plunkett
Forms API Lead: Eric Duran
Media Lead:
The description of how the git sandbox is structured is outlined at
http://drupal.org/node/1089976
Hopefully somebody else can add some more notes below.
Friday March 11th
HTML5 core sprint.
A few different things went on at the sprint.
We hammered out the git workflow, which will no doubt envolve over time.
We worked with Dww and Ariane K to decide on how to use the tools on Drupal.org.
In general,
We'll have a section of the Community Initiatives dedicated the HTML5 initiative. This will handle [relatively] static information.
We'll have a section of the forum on D.O for general discussions on HTML5.
Stewbee will look after 'stewarding' the forum so that comments and threads are kept in the correct place.
Discussions on the actual coding take place in the issue queue as usual.
G.D.O will remain our home for general discussion, announcements etc.
There was also a bit of work done on the HTML5 base theme and tools module.
Feel free to add comments where I've been a little vague on detail.