In addition to best-in-class Drupal training courses (pun intended), we at Debug Academy provide Drupal development services and Drupal 7 migration services. Our clients may self-host, host with Acquia, Pantheon, or even host with us.

Recently, a client who hosts their Drupal 9 website on Acquia reached out to to ask us to investigate an alert they had received from Acquia. Acquia sent an email which said "This email is to inform you that we emergency upsized your storage from 200GB to 300GB FS in Case #[redacted]. The cost to keep this upsize in place [is..]"

The Drupal Association engineering team is preparing to switch over to our new single sign-on solution for user login. This is an important step in our work to upgrade Drupal.org, and in the future will give you the ability to use your Drupal.org identity in new ways.

The Drupal Association engineering team is preparing to switch over to our new single sign-on solution for user login. This is an important step in our work to upgrade Drupal.org, and in the future will give you the ability to use your Drupal.org identity in new ways.

The switch-over is scheduled for:

• Thursday 25 July - from 9am to 11am Pacific (4pm-6pm UTC).

During this window you will be unable to login to Drupal.org or edit your profile, and may not be able to access related services which use your Drupal identity, such as git.drupalcode.org.

When we make this change, the login experience will look different. 

If you are an existing user

When you click to login or create an account you will be redirected to: accounts.drupal.org 

You will log in with your existing Drupal.org username or email and your current password, and your two factor authentication code if you have TFA enabled.

Once you log in, you will have to change your password.

If you have Two Factor Authentication enabled, you will also have to set up a new seed.

After that, you'll be taken back to Drupal.org as normal. You should be directed back to the path you came from.

If you are creating a new account

When you click 'create account' on Drupal.org you will be taken to the new account creation page: 

After you complete the basic information,  you will be taken to the Drupal.org welcome page to fill out the rest of your user profile.

If you need to change your account information

The majority of your account information will continue to live in your Drupal.org profile, however, some basic account information will now be stored and updated in the Drupal.org SSO system.

When you click to edit your first and last name, username, password, email address, or enable two factor authentication you'll be taken to the account page:

Setting up Two Factor Authentication

This account settings page is also where you can change your Two Factor Authentication settings. You can use the 'Account Security' tab in the sidebar to navigate to the Two Factor setup process:

If you need to reset your password

If you have forgotten your password, you can reset your password from the login page:

You will receive a password reset email from noreply@drupal.org allowing you to change your password.

If you encounter any issues with your account, please contact us at help@drupal.org

We want to thank two of our partners for supporting this project.

Cloud-IAM is our SSO partner. Cloud-IAM is a privacy centric provider of hosted solutions for Keycloak, an open source identity management service. They are enthusiastic supporters of the Drupal community, and would like to offer any site owners and agencies who are looking for their own identity and access management service 10% off, with promo code: DRUPAL10.

Our implementation partner on this project was Tag1Consulting. Tag1Consulting is a global team of Drupal experts working with clients from non-profits to the Fortune 500, and is one of the top contributors to Drupal. They have been the Drupal Association's infrastructure partner for many years. 

Here's what I've been working on for my LocalGov Drupal contributions this week. Thanks to Big Blue Door for sponsoring the time to work on these.

The Drupal Starshot initiative has been making significant progress behind the scenes, and I'm excited to share some updates with the community.

Leadership team formation and product definition

Over the past few months, we've been working diligently on Drupal Starshot. One of our first steps was to appoint a leadership team to guide the project. With the leadership team in place as well as the new Starshot Advisory Council, we shifted our focus to defining the product. We've made substantial progress on this front and will be sharing more details about the product strategy in the coming weeks.

Introducing Drupal Starshot tracks

We already started to break down the initiative into manageable components, and are introducing the concept of "tracks". Tracks are smaller, focused parts of the Drupal Starshot project that allow for targeted development and contributions. We've already published the first set of tracks on the Drupal Starshot issue queue on Drupal.org.

Example tracks include:

1. Creating Drupal Recipes for features like contact forms, advanced search, events, SEO and more.
2. Enhancing the Drupal installer to enable Recipes during installation.
3. Updating Drupal.org for Starshot, including product marketing and a trial experience.

While many tracks are technical and need help from developers, most of the tracks need contribution from designers, UX experts, marketers, testers and site builders.

Recruiting more track leads

Several tracks already have track leads and have made significant progress:

• Matt Glaman is spearheading the development of a trial experience.
• The marketing team, led by Suzanne Dergacheva, is crafting product marketing documentation.
• Martin Anderson-Clutz has been appointed as the track lead for event management.

However, we need many additional track leads to drive our remaining tracks to completion.

We're now accepting applications for track lead positions. Interested individuals and organizations can apply by completing our application form. The application window closes on July 31st, two weeks from today.

Key responsibilities of a track lead

Track leads can be individuals, teams, or organizations, including Drupal Certified Partners. While technical expertise is beneficial, the role primarily focuses on strategic coordination and project management. Key responsibilities include:

• Defining and validating requirements to ensure the track meets the expectations of our target audience.
• Developing and maintaining a prioritized task list, including creating milestones and timelines.
• Overseeing and driving the track's implementation.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders, including the Drupal Starshot leadership team, module maintainers, the marketing team, etc.
• Communicating progress to the community (e.g. blogging).

Track lead selection and announcement

After the application deadline, the Drupal Starshot Leadership Team will review the applications and appoint track leads. We expect to announce the selected track leads in the first week of August.

While the application period is open, we will be available to answer any questions you may have. Feel free to reach out to us through the Drupal.org issue queue, or join us in an upcoming zoom meeting (details to be announced / figured out).

Looking ahead to DrupalCon Barcelona

Our goal is to make significant progress on these tracks by DrupalCon Barcelona, where we plan to showcase the advancements we've made. We're excited about the momentum building around Drupal Starshot and can't wait to see the contributions from the community.

If you're passionate about Drupal and want to play a key role in shaping its future, consider applying for a track lead position.

Stay tuned for more updates on Drupal Starshot, and thank you for your continued support of the Drupal community.

Resolving merge conflicts is a great advanced part of Composer’s documentation, but we’ve found that it leaves many readers more confused than confident. If there is a composer.lock conflict, all you get is this error message:

Series Overview & ToC | Previous Article | Next Article - coming July 24th --- Our last article explored the syntax and structure of migration files. Today, we are diving deeper into the most important part of a migration: the process pipeline. This determines how source data will be processed and transformed to match the expected destination structure. We will learn how to configure and chain process plugins, how to set subfields and deltas for multi-value fields, and to work with source constants and pseudo-fields. Let’s get started. ## From source to destination The process section in a migration is responsible for transforming data as extracted from the source into a format that the destination expects. The collection of all those data transformations is known as the migration process pipeline. The Migrate API is a generic ETL framework. This means the source data can come from different types of sources like a database table; a CSV, JSON, or XML file; a remote API using JSON:API or GraphQL; or something else. The destination can be as diverse including databases, text files, and remote APIs. Because the series focuses on migrating from Drupal 7 to 10, most of our discussion will revolve...

Wouldn't it be cool if we could get around our LocalGov Drupal websites by using keyboard shortcuts?

The Drupal Business Survey investigates the trends in the digital market, in particular from service providers involved with the open source DXP Drupal. Digital agencies from all over the world participate in the yearly survey. Business insights on market share and growth opportunities are shared in a comprehensive report. The results are presented at DrupalCon Europe, the international Drupal conference. Digital business owners from all over the world are invited to participate. 

The Drupal Business Survey shares valuable business insights from Drupal service providers worldwide. Drupal’s open source ecosystem is supported by a strong community of tens of thousands professionals worldwide, working together on the popular digital experience platform. Because Drupal is open source, anyone can work with Drupal or make changes to it. The Drupal Business Survey gives meaningful data for business owners and decision makers to build their next year’s business strategy on. 

The Drupal Business Survey results in a comprehensive report on business outlook and customer engagement. It has been a valuable guide for digital service providers, even to those working with other technologies but Drupal. Participants are from all continents, with most of the companies being in business for 10 years or more. 

Results in 2023

In 2023, the Business Survey underscored Drupal’s powerful selling points including security, flexibility and  reliability. Business decision makers choosing Drupal for the digital experiences, found these values to be significantly more important. Drupal’s market share increased notably in 2023 in the finance industry as well as industry and automotive. Education and government remain consistent Drupal users. 

Open Source remains one of the most powerful reasons for choosing Drupal. Being vendor independent and using the power is the basis for Drupal’s success. Companies have continued their contribution to the open source ecosystem, in spite of the harder market outlook in 2023. 

Also the need for Drupal talent continues to be strong. More than 70% of the companies stated the business growth or need of expertise as their main reason for hiring new staff.

Imre Gmelig Meijling: “We continue to see a strong position of Drupal as valuable solution. Agencies and service providers remain committed to Drupal and pitch it as one of the best content management solutions on the market. The strong commitment to Drupal by so many organizations worldwide proves that Drupal is a solid choice for many brands and organizations across the globe.”

CEO Dinner

The Drupal market is looking forward to how digital service providers are using Drupal and how the Drupal market has evolved this year. The results of the 2024 Drupal Business Survey will be presented at the CEO Dinner at DrupalCon Europe. DrupalCon Europe is the yearly Drupal summit where over 1500 Drupal users and professionals meet to exchange ideas and further evolve Drupal. The conference is held from 24-27 September in Barcelona, Spain. The CEO Dinner will be on Wednesday 25 September, extending the conversation to a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on 26 September.

About the Business Survey

The Drupal Business Survey support Drupal businesses worldwide and is organized by a team of industry experts Imre Gmelig Meijling (React Online), Janne Kalliola (Exove) and Michel van Velde (Craftmore) in collaboration with the Drupal Association. 

Drupal is the open source Digital Experience Platform used by many organizations worldwide including Nestlé, Lufthansa and WWF.

Participate and share your insights

Drupal experts are invited to share their Drupal business insights through the Business Survey anonymously and come to DrupalCon Europe to review the results together. 

You can participate in the Drupal Business Survey anonymously here: The Drupal Business Survey 2024. The survey closes on 4 September.