Drupal 8 Media Status
Janez Urevc / @slashrsm / http://janezurevc.nameJanez Urevc (@slashrsm)
- senior engineer and team lead at MD Systems
- Active member of Drupal community since 2009
- Lead of the D8 media initiative
- ex Examiner.com
Among top contributors
- our CTO (@berdir) is one of top 5 D8 contributors
- D8 expert
- D8 media expert - lots of media clients
- 20% of every project to the community
- http://www.md-systems.ch/en
- Services include: Full projects, site audits, bootstrap weeks, support/consulting, architecture planning, ...
What is in Drupal 8?
- CKEditor + Basic image upload
- Basic file listing
- Multi-upload
What we have in core
- Better storage - Media entity
- Über-powerful browsing - Entity browser
- Embedding everything - Entity embed
- Cropping - Crop API, Image widget crop, Focal point
- and more...
How to try all this great stuff?
- File entity browser (and Conent browser and Media entity browser)
- Lightning
- Thunder
What is happening in core?
- Move media entity in core (as "Media") [#2831274]
- Re-create current (images and files) functionality on top of Media entity [#2831936] and [#2831937]
- Add support for one "remote" video provider [#2831944]
- Implement media library using media entities [#2796001]
General plan issue [#2825215]
Want to help?
- Let your developers work on core issues
- Send them to sprints
- Host a sprint
- Fund other developers
- Fund sprint costs (travel, accomodation, ...)
Resources
- Weekly scrum meetings on #drupal-media IRC (14:00 UTC)
- github.com/drupal-media
- groups.drupal.org/media
- @DrupalMedia