@ultimike great article. We've been following the GitLab migration closely since our group in the University of Colorado's University Information Services group recently transitioned from a private, internal-only GitLab instance to GitLab SaaS where we can finally do more with GitLab CI. We've always used Pull Mirrors and Pipelines to pull any updates that pass Pantheon's Auto Pilot back into GitLab and deploy our development, but limited in both CI minutes and services we could integration with
@kreynen@rachel_norfolk@swentel According to FediDB, ~47K users on 2,737 WP sites have already published 3mil posts to the fediverse. I can't get over the feeling that the #Drupal community is just watching the type of innovation all our development retooling was intended make easier. Instead of embracing new "off the island" technologies, we're talking about new policies for the Drupal Planet RSS feed aggregation to discourage low quality and/or AI generated content. https://fedidb.org/current-events/wordpress
@kreynen@swentel@rachel_norfolk@kreynen Might also have something todo with the changed focus of the drupal project. It's target audience is shifted from enthusiastic tinkerers to larger enterprise styled projects. And most of those businesses have no clue that there is a Fediverse let alone are willing to invest in it.
@renebakx@kreynen@swentel@rachel_norfolk Fair, but there is a large and active part of the Drupal community working on .edu sites where we ARE aware of the shift from enshittifiable (sp?) platforms to federated. Mastodon links are popping up in site footers like https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/ before we officially support it. Hoping to see more of that as CMS updates include support and people ask where these Xs came from during the "down" time when higher ed content/design refreshes typically happen
@kreynen@kreynen@rachel_norfolk@swentel That's good too hear. Here in the Netherlands most of our clients are dropping X and focus mainly on the Meta products. Even the non profit, educational and the workingat... ones.
Just a thing. I am trying to get this working with several projects, but I am having issues with two module dependencies. webfinger and nodeinfo2 are not able to generate .well-known at least on my current build. I tried to setup the directories manually but got error code forbidden when trying to establish a username. could use some advise. If it helps, I was building on a Varbase distribution.
It doesn't seem like there are many "mainstream" platforms on Fediverse. How relevant is ActivityPub if your brand is only active on the big social sites, i.e. Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, or YouTube? Are there any alternative modules that provide similar functionality for those platforms?
@finagler@talkingdrupal@kreynen The way I explain what is happening with social media is that it is like the early days of email where it required some understanding of SMTP routing to send an email from your company's CC:Mail instance to someone outside the company or from the VIM account provided by your university to a friend at another school. It could be done, but it wasn't intuitive or "mainstream".
@symfonystation While I agree that sites need to make a long overdue decision about their direction, is there any evidence that Retrofit will actually save a team time or produce a stable, reliable upgrade? I also take issue w/ describing Backdrop as a solution for people "stuck on the outdated Drupal 7 mindset". While I rely on a modern build process to test the tightly coupled CMS/CRM solutions, the cost and complexity of maintaining this is FAR from serenity and the pace of change is intense.
@kreynen great advice from @larowlan. I'd just add a request that maintainers resist the urge to add new features already with a security release... even if they've already been RBTC and merged. Create a new branch so that the release is just the last stable/supported release and the security fix. Even bug fixes can have unintended consequences.
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