March 20, 2019

Time/Place

This meeting is a hybrid teleconference and IRC chat. Anyone is welcome to join. Here is the info:

• Time: 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/203396828
• IRC:
  • Join the #islandora chat room via Freenode Web IRC (enter a unique nick)
  • Or point your IRC client to #islandora on irc.freenode.net

Attendees

• Jared Whiklo
• Bryan Brown
• Melissa Anez
• Jonathan Green
• Natkeeran Kanthan ⭐️
• Cary Gordan
• Aaron Birkland
• Alex O'Neill
• Don Richards
• Noella MacIntyre

Agenda

1. Islandora 8 Update

2. Acquia Drupal 9 webinar takeaways

   • Symfony 3.x + Drupal 7.x & 8.x: EOL 2021 Q4
   • Drupal 8.9/9.0 release: 2020 Q2

3. ... (feel free to add agenda items)

Minutes

• Next Sprint will be focused on Testing; April 8 - 19; Look out for the signup sheet. The aim is to target 1.0 release after this sprint, unless major blockers are identified prior to or during testing.

• Several PRs require review (i.e https://github.com/Islandora-CLAW/islandora_demo/pulls, https://github.com/Islandora-CLAW/controlled_access_terms/pull/21, https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/claw-playbook/pulls)

• Acquia Drupal 9 webinar takeaways - Bryan Brown

  • The main takeaway was that Symfony 3.x will be on EOL 2021 Q4, thus Drupal 8 will not get any security updates after that. With Symfony 3.4 (feature equivalent to Symfony 4) in Drupal 8.5+, the transition to Symfony 4.0 has started. Currently, deprecated functions are highlighted and you have until 8.9? to phase out the deprecated functions. According to Acquia, Drupal 8.9 will contain all the functionality for Drupal 9, and it will not introduce any API breaking changes.