APIs

• What are some of the APIs that have changed from D7 to D8?
• Javascript frontend changes
  • Reduce use of jQuery
• PHP API changes
  • Declare script dependencies in Yaml file
  • Removing drupal_add_js and drupal_add_css in favor of attachments
  • Can’t add scripts/css/js in .info files
• How to test Javascript and frontend
• Documentation
  • api.drupal.org only covers php documentation

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Tasty Backend

• What is Tasty backend?
• Why did you create this project?
• What are some of the features that come out of the box when you install the module?
  • Do recommend people actually use the module? Or just base their installation off of it?

Use Cases

• Who can benefit the most from a setup like the one that comes with Tasty Backend?

Translation as it is in Drupal 7

• How has translation been done (in Drupal) in the past?
• Why Entity Translation? What holes does it fill?
• The second beta of Entity Translation was just released at the end of November, what kinds of updates were included with that?
• What’s left to do before a 1.0 release?
  • Roadmap in the issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/1624830
• Does ET integrate/use TMGMT? (Translation Management Tool)

Entity Translation in Drupal 8

• Entity Translation has been committed to Drupal 8 core! Congratulations! When did that happen?
• How will translations be handled in Drupal 8?
• Before we started recording you mentioned some other entity related aspects you ran into while getting ET into D8. Would you mind talking about some of those?

Questions from Twitter

• Transition (‏@Transition) - @ModsUnraveled how's support for CJKV languages? Chinese characters and such.
  • Is there somewhere people can go to find out more about unicode in Drupal 8? http://hojtsy.hu/d8mi
• Cathy YesCT (@ctheys) - Could it be said Entity Translation is a culmination of X months/years of work? #MUP049 #drupal #d8mi
  • Started Feb 2009
• Thomas Svenson (@tsvenson) - Will revisioning & staging work on translations too? With WB Moderate only the original content is staged, not the translations. #MUP049

This week I talk with Gábor Hojtsy about the Multilingual Initiative for Drupal 8.

Questions he answers

• For those who’ve not heard of the Multilingual Initiative, can you tell us what it is and what it will accomplish?
• Is it just a way to translate text on a page? Can’t Google do that?
• What have you accomplished so far?
• How do you manage all these tasks?
• What are the big things still to be worked on?