Talking Drupal #456 - DDEV Grows Up

Jun 24, 2024

Randy Fay and Andrew Berry discuss DDEV's rapid growth and sustainability. They cover funding, future plans, and how to get involved. The podcast explores DDEV's features, challenges, and the importance of community participation in maintaining DDEV.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Discussion on XKCD comic analogy and module conversion to recipes

01:40 • 2min

Introducing DDEV Drupal Contrib Add-On for Local Development

03:20 • 12min

Discussion on DDEV add-ons and Hero devs sponsorship

14:52 • 3min

Evolution and Adoption of DDEV Tool for Web Developers

17:40 • 14min

Sustainability and Governance of the DDEV Project

31:33 • 17min

Risks and Security in Open Source Projects

48:25 • 17min

Challenges and Future Features

01:05:47 • 2min

Challenges and Maintenance in Running DDEV and PHP

01:07:31 • 4min

Encouraging Community Participation in Maintaining DDEV

01:11:04 • 3min

Today we are talking about DDEV, The DDEV Community, and It’s Future Sustainability with guest Randy Fay and Andrew Berry. We’ll also cover DDEV Drupal Contrib as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/456

Topics

What is DDEV
In March you posted the DDEV Project Plan for 2024, what is the contributor training initiative
DDEV has grown rapidly over the past few years, what do you attribute that to
You seem to be the face of DDEV, who else is involved
How is DDEV funded
What happens when you retire
Does the DDEV Foundation have employees
What is DDEV coded in
What is your favorite feature of DDEV
What is next
How can people get involved

Resources

Guests

Andrew Berry - deviantintegral

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Randy Fay - rfay

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a local DDEV environment optimized for working on a Drupal contrib project? There’s a DDEV add-on for that.
Module name/project name:
- DDEV Drupal Contrib
Brief history
- How old: created in Apr 2023 by Moshe Weitzman, a Drupal core maintainer, and according to his resume the first American to contribute to Drupal
- Versions available: 1.0.0-rc8
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Test coverage
- Documentation - Lengthy README
- Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug
Module features and usage
- The add-on adds two ddev commands to help during setup:
- ddev poser creates a temporary composer.contrib.json, adding drupal/core-recommended as a dev dependency. It also runs composer install and yarn install so that all dependencies are available
- The additional ddev symlink-project command adds symlinks from your project files to an expected path within the custom modules directory of the installed version of Drupal
- Once it’s set up, you can easily run tests locally exactly the way they will be run in GitlabCI. It’s also even easier to apply any of the automatic fixes that are available, for example by running ddev phpcbf or ddev eslint with the –fix flag
- You can also commit the generated .ddev directory inside your project, to make it easy for other contributors to use the same tools
- I will note that after running ddev poser I got errors trying to use composer to add any other projects to the local environment, for example to use admin toolbar for manual testing
- That said, this is another great example of how the set of Drupal developer tools is always improving, and also illustrates to the power of DDEV’s add-ons