In the evolving landscape of web development, delivering seamless and engaging user experiences is paramount. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have emerged as a solution that combines the best of web and mobile applications. Integrating PWAs with Drupal can significantly enhance website performance and user satisfaction.
PWAs are web applications that utilize modern web technologies to offer experiences similar to native mobile apps. They are designed to be reliable, fast, and engaging, providing functionalities such as offline access, push notifications, and home screen installation.
For a comprehensive guide, refer to the Progressive Web App (PWA) module documentation.
In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about implementing PWAs in Drupal, from setup to optimization.
As part of our preparation to migrate issues from Drupal.org to GitLab on git.drupalcode.org, we are simplifying the access control for who can grant issue credit.
All maintainers of a project now have permission to grant issue credit. In the past, maintainers needed to have the “Write to VCS” or “Maintain issues” role on their project in order to have permission to assign credit on their issues.
Since issues are moving to GitLab, we will no longer have the “Maintain issues” project role managed by Drupal.
We will also be simplifying credit so that is granted for all “closed” states where maintainers can grant credit, not just “fixed” and “closed (fixed)” issue states. Follow #3427961: Grant credit for all closed issues, not just fixed issues for updates on this change. This provides more options for maintainers, but they are not obligated to credit all closed, not-fixed issues. That is up to each maintainer. We encourage giving credit to issue contributions which have impact.
This change is partly motivated by adapting our credit model to prepare for the GitLab issue migration. GitLab does not have a specific “fixed” state for issues; issues are only open or closed, and can have additional labels that may vary for each project. See #3254602: Using GitLab labels for issues on Drupal projects for more information about labels in the GitLab issue migration.
More broadly, you can expect to see three key work areas in our final phase of the GitLab migration:
For further updates, you can join asynchronous initiative meetings every other week on Wednesdays starting at 19:00 UTC in the #gitlab channel on Drupal Slack.
We're excited to introduce https://addons.ddev.com, a central hub where the community can explore, contribute to, and enhance the collection of DDEV add-ons.
The source code is available and your contributions are encouraged at https://github.com/ddev/addon-registry.
Need to find a specific add-on? Use the search field, and watch results update in real-time as you type.
Click on a column title to organize the entries based on that field. A second click will reverse the sort order, and a third click resets it back.
Add-ons fall into two categories: Official add-ons, which are supported by the DDEV team, and Contrib add-ons, which are supported by the community.
Want to share your thoughts or feedback on an add-on? Scroll to the bottom of an add-on's page and click "Sign in with GitHub". We use giscus to manage comments, making it easy to join the conversation by authorizing your GitHub account. You can also react to other comments or add your own insights.
The DDEV Add-on Registry is a living project, and we're eager to involve the community in its future. If you have suggestions or want to contribute, head over to https://github.com/ddev/addon-registry. We look forward to your feedback and collaboration!
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Today we are talking about OpenY, a distribution for YMCAs, why it was created, and how it’s used today with guests Avi Schwab and Brent Wilker. We’ll also cover AI Media Image as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/491
TopicsBrent Wilker - ImageX.co brent.wilker
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Managing many products on a website can be difficult and time-consuming, especially when data changes frequently, and business partners need quick access to up-to-date information. Drupal offers solutions that significantly simplify these processes. In the following blog post, I’ll show how to prepare a convenient admin panel in this system for editing multiple products simultaneously. I encourage you to read the article or watch an episode of the “Nowoczesny Drupal” series.
DrupalCamp England was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on March 1. The organizers have expressed their immense satisfaction with the event, which turned out to be a grand success. All tickets were sold out for this much-anticipated gathering, held after a five-year break. Seeing the vibrant photos, the Drupal community shares in the excitement of a major community event making a strong comeback.
This revival is part of a broader wave of resurgent events worldwide, as community members work to rekindle the Drupal spirit by reorganizing meetups and gatherings that had gone into hibernation. It is fair to say that DrupalCamp England has set an optimistic precedent, demonstrating the community’s enthusiasm for such comebacks.
To all the event organizers out there—you do a tremendous job. Your efforts do not go unnoticed or unappreciated. You are the lifeblood that keeps the community energized. At The Drop Times, we are committed to highlighting the remarkable work of event organizers and bringing their contributions to the forefront. We hope to see even more success stories this year, just like this one.
With that, let’s move on to the key stories of the week.
We acknowledge that there are more stories to share. However, due to selection constraints, we close the list here.
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The first DrupalCamp in England was held this weekend (1st March 2025) in Cambridge. I drove down on the Friday with Chris Maiden to attend (and speak!) at the event.
We arrived early at the event and and started the day with a much needed coffee (or two) and started chatting with the other attendees.
The opening session was a keynote from Baddý Sonja Breidert, who talked about AI, the success of Drupal and the Drupal CMS system, and about the success of the Drupal community. There were also videos from Dries and Tim Doyle who had messages of what's coming next in the Drupal world. I think I missed Drupal being recognised as a DPG (Digital Public good) product by the Digital Public Goods Aliance. This alliance facilitates the discovery of open source technologies that follow guidelines to have things like open licenses, data security, documentation, and protection from harassment as key tenets of the system.