Welcome

Welcome to the DrupalNYC monthly meetup! All are welcome to attend.

This meetup will be recorded and published publicly.

We look forward to seeing you!

Agenda

The agenda is always subject to change.

• 6:00 pm - Join the call, get your camera plugged in, and hop on #meetup in DrupalNYC Slack to introduce yourself to other attendees. While we wait for everyone to join, if you have a question about anything Drupal, ask the audience! Please don't use Google Meet's text chat.
• 6:15 pm - Announcements (inc. hiring or looking to be hired)
• 6:30 pm - Presentations
• 8:15 pm - Closing remarks, virtual happy hour :)

Presentations

Drupal.org Collaboration Tools: Issue Forks & Merge Requests

Speaker

Neil Drumm

Description

The team behind Drupal.org began a study of developer tools in 2017, migrated our backend services to GitLab in 2019, and has ramped up to enable merge requests for the project in 2020. But we’re not taking the tools right off the shelf, we’re tuning them to the Drupal community’s collaboration style. Join us for this session to learn how we’re doing it.

The Drupal community has a single-threaded collaboration style, with multiple contributors, that has unique benefits in a world where contribution for other open source projects often means forks-of-forks-of-forks. By building an integration of GitLab into Drupal.org’s existing issue queue, we’re preserving that collaboration, while gaining the benefits of GitLab’s fork & branch management, merge requests, and code review tools.  In this talk we’ll review our observations of the way the Drupal community collaborates, and talk about how that informed our integration of GitLab into the Drupal community’s workflow. We’ll also talk about the technical side of implementing our integration. 

Finally, because GitLab is increasingly-widely used, and rapidly adding features, there is an opportunity to integrate additional tools and workflows, to help increase the velocity of Drupal.

At the end of this talk, we’ll have an open feedback session where we’ll answer your questions and take your suggestions for further enhancements to our tools. 

Bio

Neil Drumm (drupal.org/u/drumm) helps build Drupal.org as part of the Drupal Association’s Engineering team.

Additional presentations

TBD. We need YOU to volunteer to speak! Talks can be as short as you like or up to 60 minutes long and can be on any topic of interest to new or old Druaplers.

Volunteer to speak or request a topic and we'll find a speaker for it: speak@drupalnyc.org

Joining the video conference

We will send the link to join the Google Meet video conference on or before the day of the meetup to the email address you use when you RSVP. If you need help joining the meetup, please find support on DrupalNYC Slack.

Announcements

DrupalCampNYC 2020

Save the dates! DrupalCampNYC 2020 will be either October 30-31 or November 13-14 (we're just working on a few details with our generous venue sponsor, Microsoft Reactor).

Interested in volunteering? Email camp-volunteer@drupalnyc.org or join #camp-organize on DrupalNYC Slack.

Does your company want to help the Drupal community while enjoying brand exposure and other great benefits? Sponsorship packages for DrupalCampNYC 2020 go on sale Wednesday, June 24 at noon EDT and supply is limited.

DrupalNYC.org

Interested in helping to improve our website, drupalnyc.org? No experience necessary. We will mentor you as you get your hands dirty on a real Drupal 8 website! Email jdleonard@drupalnyc.org or join #website-improve on DrupalNYC Slack.

Get in touch

Have feedback for your volunteer organizers? We want to hear it: feedback@drupalnyc.org

Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? We'd love to hear from you: sponsor@drupalnyc.org

We *always* need more speakers! Volunteer to speak or request a topic: speak@drupalnyc.org

Join us on DrupalNYC Slack, our online community.