Definitive Guide to Drupal 8 planning discussion

Modules from the contrib side.

Boz presenting plan:

40 topics in all. Views 3 topics. Theming 7 or 9 topics.

Forest has a horizontal list. Not quite ready to share it.

I have a vertical list, what kind of format.

Want to avoid authors doing a big chunk of work, and going cumplunk. Especially on the beginner side, taking a

1. Check website for updates.
2. Topic
   Running through entire book will be several threads
3. Drop of Drush (1 page)
4. Git bits (1 page)

By the middle or end of book, they've built resources that are their own personal vault, of their own cheat sheet on how to do Drupal. So the person writing chapter 3 has to talk to the person writing chapter 4.

Topic Teams:

• Author, Backup, Mentor
• Tech editor
• Wordsmith
• User Test (newbie)
• User Test (experienced)
• 3 Maintenance Engineers

First Drupal 7 book that came out, didn't have theme

These are the things that keep our book from being stale, and to be honest most books are stale as soon as they hit the shelves.

Maintenance engineers, usually a lower-level person, who wants to be

Privilege rage.

9 roles times 40 topics is 360 roles.

Alina: Good documentation is key to a project being successful or a feature being successful. Starting to use something is very hard. For Drupal, make it not just a

Lot of intro Drupal stuff, but beyond that, you're on your own. One of the things i'd love to see in Drupal is sample sites, available from GitHub— i want to create a new site, can i get a template, barebones site for something specific.

Boz: Do any of the roles fit that? I'd be interested in any of the roles, for maybe different topics.

Preston: I have a lot of experience with training, 5, 6, or 7. Probably as an author, hard to write something authoritatively without being the authority. I have
take my trainings and combine with Twig stuff.

Boz: At beginning of each chapter, with all seven names.

Preston: I do have a little writing experience

Micky: Like to be an author, write about communication modules in Drupal, particularly VOIP Drupal

Cina
working with Drupal since D4
want to be tech editor for Drop of Drush.

Sena Hadare [worked with (woman) at Martha Steward]

Books not chapters. How do digital publications challenge.

EdX.

Atlas i love.

Forest: Platforms.

And how do you teach Drupal 8, that's the outline, not chapters.

How do you package it up.

Publishers

Me: Funding

So many people write and talk about Drupal, and if i didn't know a

Sena: Difference between beginning, and intermediate, and being beginner for intermediate.

Forest: Trying to be all things to all people, intermediate with a quick onramp to intermediate, and advanced is another series.

Intermediate explained in a way a

Like to throw in bits that even advanced people will be, wow, why didn't i know that?

Ed: Great "call out". Had those idiotic things for hint. Should call it

Forest: If it was two years ago,

Ben: Advanced tips.

Forest: And Gotchas.

Sticky sort on views still defaults to the wrong order?

Forest: We know we're going

Full stack developer for University

Talked to Dave Reid. High level experts tends to be

edit it up, send it back to Dave, he signs off on it.

not selling exclusive rights to the books, but give them the publishing license.

Preston:

Write the book with Atlas, and decide if we want to self-publish.