Talking Drupal #480 - Ripple Makers

Dec 16, 2024

Join Julia Kranzthor, who leads fundraising at the Drupal Association, as she dives into the Ripple Makers program designed to foster community engagement and personalized support. Discover how this initiative redefines membership and invites smaller, recurring contributions to strengthen the Drupal ecosystem. Julia also discusses the vital changes in Drupal's membership structures and the importance of tailored donation platforms for nonprofits. Plus, hear about Migrate Boost— a new module that streamlines Drupal migration!

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Migrate Boost Origin

Nick Laflin created Migrate Boost to reduce his 45-hour personal migration to 30 hours.
It primarily disables search indexing, which gets updated on every migration change, causing slowdowns.

ADVICE

Migrate Boost Configuration

Disable specific hooks or modules' hooks in settings.php to speed up Drupal migrations.
This avoids overhead like unnecessary search indexing or email notifications during migrations.

ADVICE

Selective Hook Disabling

Carefully choose which hooks to disable, as some are crucial for data integrity.
Disabling search indexing is generally safe, while entity creation hooks should remain active.

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Today we are talking about The Ripple Makers program, How it benefits Drupal Association members, and Why it’s important to Drupal with guest Julia Kranzthor. We’ll also cover Migrate Boost as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/480

Topics

What is Ripple Makers
- Taxes
Why did the Drupal Association (DA) membership program need overhauling
Are DA individual memberships different than Ripple Makers
Do people have to sign up if they are already a DA member
Coming up with the benefits
Where did the name come from
Does this have new benefits
What has the impact been

Resources

Ripple Makers
- https://www.drupal.org/association/RippleMakers
- https://www.classy.org/give/386338#!/donation/checkout
Drupal Certified Partner (DCP)
Drupal staff page
Migrate Boost
- 'workbench_moderation',
- 'pathauto',
- 'xmlsitemap',
- 'search_api',
- 'search_api_algolia',

Guests

Julia Kranzthor - JR_KThor

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to disable hooks to accelerate your Drupal migration? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Migrate Boost
Brief history
- How old: created in Sep 2023 by our own Nic Laflin
- Versions available: 1.0.1, compatible with Drupal 10 and 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Documentation README / project page have instructions
- Number of open issues: none!
Usage stats:
- 119 sites
Module features and usage
- Having hooks fire during a migration can significantly slow down the process, and what’s worse, it can also cause some significant problems, for example sending email notifications every time a node is created
- You disable hooks by defining an array in your settings.php file, either an array of specific hooks you want to disable, or an array of modules for which you want to disable all hooks
- This was a capability available for the Drupal 7 Migrate module, but hasn’t been available in the Migrate API in Drupal core since version 8, so this module can be invaluable if you’re working on a sizable migration
- Hopefully there are a lot of folks working on migrations ahead of the January 5 EOL for Drupal 7, so I thought this module would be timely