149 Using Panopoly and it's Drupal 8 Future with David Snopek - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Modules Unraveled Podcast

## Project* For people who might not know, what is a Drupal distribution? * Out of the box, vanilla Drupal doesn’t do much - you have to install modules and mold it into what you want * A distribution is Drupal prepackaged with contrib modules and themes, pre-configured for a specific use case (OOB, X+Y)

* What is Panopoly? * A “starter site” distribution (replacement for vanilla Drupal) * A “base distribution” on which to build other distributions * A set of Features modules that can be used outside of Panopoly

* Why would someone want to use Panopoly instead of vanilla Drupal? * Improved blank slate * Includes some the most popular modules and configuration that almost everyone is using anyway * Hide Drupal-isms from site managers and users * WYSIWYG, Media, responsive layouts, edit in place, live previews, improved search, UX improvements, a11y improvements * Include a bunch of stuff backported from D8: toolbar, responsive bartik, etc * Unified content/layout management system built on Panels eco-system * Rather than learning all that community knowledge over, re-use a well thought out, tested approach to doing Drupal

* Some people love Panels, but others hate it. Why would someone who isn’t a “Panels lover” want to use Panopoly? * Best of Panels eco-system * You build with Views, Entities/Fields, custom code, whatever - the Panels bits tie those things together and allow users to customize them * We hide the nastiest bits (page_manager UI) from users and site managers

* Why would someone want to create their own distro? * Boilerplate, build once / deploy lots, maintenance of lots of sites * Even small organizations can benefit

* What advantages do you get by build your distro on Panopoly? * Like “base theme” shared work (like WYSIWYG, responsive, etc) and defined approach * Focus only on the unique stuff in your distro (by fitting into Panopoly’s architecture)

* Why would someone want to use one of Panopoly’s Features modules outside of Panopoly? * [Quick background on Feature] * Dozen or so features * If like just a piece of Panopoly (ex. panopoly_wysiwyg) you could steal it! * Lots of thought into buttons to enable, filtering for control/security, additional features like Media/Linkit

* Updating distributions can be hard. What does Panopoly do to help with this? * [explain why hard] * Docs * CI * distro_update

* Security updates in particular can be hard, because you have to wait for the distro to make its own update. How does Panopoly handle them? * [mention how handled in the past / security team]

* What are the plans for Panopoly in Drupal 8?