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Talking Drupal #462 - DrupalCon Singapore

Aug 5, 2024
01:05:31

Today we are talking about DrupalCon Singapore, What you can expect, and What’s next for Drupal in Asia with guest Mike Richardson & Surabhi Gokte. We’ll also cover Filefield Paths as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/462

Topics
  • When is Drupalcon Asia
  • The last one was in 2016, what did it take to reprise
  • How do you handle language barriers
  • What are your roles in the organizing committee
  • Steering committee and Drupal South
  • What can attendees expect
  • Any special programming
  • What kind of diversity is expected from attendees
  • Driving from Mumbai to Singapore is 110 hours
  • Will Dries be there
  • Can we expect future Drupalcon Asia's
  • Planning and logistics regarding coffee
  • Starshot
Resources Guests

Mike Richardson - Singapore DrupalCon richo_au Surabhi Gokte - surabhi-gokte

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Josh Miller - joshmiller

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to use a variety of tokens to customize the directory and file names of your uploaded files? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in July 2008 by Stuart Clark (Deciphered), though recent releases are by Oleh Vehera (voleger) of Golems GABB
    • Versions available: 7.x-1.2 and 8.x-1.0-beta7, the latter of which supports Drupal 9.3 or newer, and Drupal 10
  • Maintainership
    • Seeking co-maintainers
    • Security Coverage
      • Opted in, but no coverage in practice for Drupal 9 or 10
    • Test coverage
    • Number of open issues: 131 open issues, 50 of which are bugs against the current branch
  • Usage stats:
    • 34,609 sites almost 35,000 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • This module allows you to customize file names and paths by leveraging a variety of entity-based tokens
    • It also integrates with the Pathauto module, giving you options to clean up the tokens for example by removing slashes, filtering out words or punctuation, and so on
    • It can also work with the Transliteration module to convert unicode characters into US-ASCII
    • Filefield Paths has options to rename and move existing files, and can retroactively rename files, effectively bulk updating and moving all your existing files
    • It can also work with the Redirect module to automatically create redirects from the old path and filename to the new location, when renaming
    • I’d also like to give a tip of the cap to Jim Birch of Kanopi for suggesting this module, when I was talking to a customer who was looking to achieve pretty much exactly what this module does

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