Drupal Console: Chongqing Meetup and Project Updates

April 20, 2016

A contributor reports from Chongqing on a series of upcoming presentations. This update also covers new features in the 0.11.3 release, which is the last version before the 1.0.0-alpha1 release.

The next release will be tagged following the official release of Drupal 8.1.0.

Recent Event Attendance:

Upcoming Events

A project contributor will be presenting at:

  • DrupalCamp Chongqing, China (April 16th): A keynote presentation on the business value of investing in communities, plus a Drupal Console session.
  • Drupal Meetup in Chengdu, China (April 17th): An introductory session on Drupal Console.
  • Drupal Meetup in Bangkok, Thailand: An introductory session on Drupal Console.

Latest release:

  • 0.11.3 -

New Features:

  • [plugin:debug] Add command #2100
  • [site:import:local] New command for "importing" existing sites. #2106 #2134

Known Issues:

  • Dependency conflicts remain a challenge, especially with the approaching release of Drupal 8.1.0 on April 20th. The Embedded Composer project is being investigated as a potential solution.

Upcoming features:

  • [generate:doc:cheatsheet] -
  • [theme:template:finder] New command - Template finder
  • [chain] Allow command to have placeholders -

Contributor Recognition:

An initiative has been launched to reward Drupal Console contributors.

  • Sticker/Badges -