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Workflow Initiative Dick Olsson | @dickolsson | dixon_ #DrupalDeploy Agenda Background & goals Plan overview Lessons learned More details Q & A #DrupalDeploy Funded team Tim Millwood timmillwood Andrei

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Workflow Initiative

Dick Olsson | @dickolsson | dixon_ #DrupalDeploy

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Agenda

  • Background & goals
  • Plan overview
  • Lessons learned
  • More details
  • Q & A

#DrupalDeploy

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Funded team

  • Tim Millwood — timmillwood
  • Andrei Mateescu — amateescu
  • Andrei Jechiu — jeqq
  • Jozef Toth — jojototh
  • Dick Olsson — dixon_

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Special thanks

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https://groups.drupal.org/node/216414

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Background & goals

  • Core conversations since Denver 2012
  • The first approved initiative after 8.0.0
  • Efficient and accurate content workflows
  • For content editors
  • By enabling moderation and full-site preview

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Plan overview

Issue: https://drupal.org/node/2721129 #DrupalDeploy

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Phase A

  • https://drupal.org/node/2725433
  • Using the revision API for more entities
  • Lots of work on underlying APIs, upgrade path,


‘EditorialContentEntityBase’ etc.

  • Fixed
  • Almost fixed ;)

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Phase B

  • https://drupal.org/node/2786133
  • Make every revision have a parent
  • Revision trees, branches and conflict management
  • Postponed
  • Only required by phase H

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Phase C

  • https://drupal.org/node/2755073
  • Content Moderation and Workflow modules
  • Uncovering lots of limitations with revisions
  • Fixed
  • Stable in 8.4

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Phase E

  • https://drupal.org/node/2786135
  • Trash module and undo functionality
  • Usability challenges
  • Needs work
  • Release target TBD

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Phase G

  • https://drupal.org/node/2732071


https://drupal.org/node/2732081

  • Full-site preview with Workspace module
  • Bold new mental model
  • Needs work
  • Targeting 8.4 for MVP

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Phase H

  • https://drupal.org/node/2867707
  • Conflict management of parallel changes
  • Lots of UI complexity
  • Not started

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Story summary

#DrupalDeploy

Make revisions of all content Moderate content package Undo deletion


  • f any

content Preview content package Collaborate with others’ content packages

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Progress summary

  • Phase A
  • Phase B
  • Phase C
  • Phase D

  • Phase E
  • Phase F
  • Phase G
  • Phase H

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Progress summary

  • Phase A
  • Phase B
  • Phase C

  • Phase E
  • Phase G
  • Phase H

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Lessons learned

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Lessons learned

  • Hard to do experimental modules that needs


deep integration with Drupal

  • Surfacing existing bugs with stable code
  • Dependencies during the experimental timeline
  • We still rely on very few core framework committers

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Funding core development works!

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Phase C:
 Content Moderation

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Important Content Moderation issues

  • Workflows on entities without bundles:


https://drupal.org/node/2843083

  • Forward revision bugs:


https://drupal.org/node/2766957
 https://drupal.org/node/1239558

  • Entity form save button:


https://drupal.org/node/2068063
 https://drupal.org/node/2753717

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Phase G:
 Workspaces

#DrupalDeploy

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Who are workspaces for?

Content editor

Moderate content package Publish content package Collaborate with others’ content packages

Site
 builder

Configure workflows Configure moderation states

#DrupalDeploy

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Animated prototype

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Workspace roadmap

  • Experimental workspace module:


https://drupal.org/node/2732071

  • Full workspace UI:


https://drupal.org/node/2732081

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Q & A

Dick Olsson | @dickolsson | dixon_ #DrupalDeploy

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Thank you!

Rate this session: https://events.drupal.org/node/17136 #DrupalDeploy