Summary: Part 1 of 2 - I got the chance to talk with Dave Hall and Dick Olsson from Pfizer at DrupalCon New Orleans about the Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative. This post includes the video and full transcript of our conversation, as well as links to many of the people and topics we touched on! Mentioned in the conversation Dick Olsson Dave Hall Workflow Initiative official plan: Deploy - Content Staging Workflow Initiative community home: Drupaldeploy.org Workflow Initiative team members mentioned: Tim Millwood Andrei Jechiu Andrei Mateescu Jozef Toth Iceland's unpronounceable volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, that stopped Dick getting to DrupalCon San Francisco Deploy Module UUID Module Drupal's semantic versioning release process jam's session at DrupalCon New Orleans: "New and improved ..." Selling the value of new Drupal 8 technical features. Composer Drupal 8 Configuration Management Dries's DrupalCon New Orleans Driesnote Mike Lamb, Pfizer Workbench Module Conversation Video - 23 min. Transcript - Welcome to DrupalCon New Orleans! jam: So – yes. Looking around us (and my joke of the week), we are in beautiful, glamorous New Orleans. Home of great food, which I haven’t had time to partake of this week, and amazing music, which I haven’t heard at all either, but that’s why we called it work, right? We’re here at the New Orleans cConvention Center on the sprint day of the North American DrupalCon 2016. Dick Olsen, how many DrupalCons have you been to and how was DrupalCon New Orleans for you? Dick: DrupalCon New Orleans has been lovely for me, really. I’ve been at DrupalCon since Paris 2009. I’ve lost ... jam: The whole time? Dick: The whole time except San Francisco, which I missed due to the ash cloud. jam: That was a fun con. Dick: Yes, that was a – no, it wasn’t a fun ... jam: No. So I had made it. So we all – we live in Europe, you live in Australia. Dave: I made it. jam: You made it. I made it because I went early, but a whole bunch of people couldn’t come right until the end of the week because they weren’t allowing any airplanes to fly because of the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland that was going on. So you have been to several DrupalCons? Dick: Yes. I think I missed – maybe Washington in there. Was that after San Francisco or was it before? jam: No, that was 2009. That was before. Dick: Yes, that was before. Okay. So I’ve been more or less in all of them since 2009. It’s been a long journey. Meet Dick Olsson! jam: You’ve been in Drupal for ages as well, right? Dick: Yes. So I’ve been in Drupal since 2007 – 2008, yes. jam: Were you doing Drupal before you worked at NodeOne in Stockholm? Dick: Yes, I did Drupal as a freelancer. jam: What would you say your specialty is? What’s your Drupal thing? Dick: I worked a long time on just general contribution to core, but my thing has really been focusing on content workflow and various topics within that. So, Deploy Module has been something that I’ve been involved with since early days of Drupal 6. I took over maintenanceship of that module for Drupal 7. That ecosystem also includes the UUID module and a few other bits and pieces. So the content workflow, content staging, previewing, content type of thing, that’s been what I’ve liked to play with in the community. jam: UUID’s actually really great and important. That’s something that’s in Drupal 8 core now, and that means every piece of content that you create ever, has a unique identifier, which means that you can merge federated systems of sites, organize better search results, and you never get a conflict...
