About Me

Senior Developer at Lullabot
Twitter: @davereid
IRC: davereid
Maintain amost 2% of contrib modules
Core subsystem maintainer
Father of two cats and one boy

Why is media important for Drupal

• people expect that we do it right
• our "competitors" handle this "better" than we do
• we have lots of enterprise media companies using Drupal
• people expect media-rich websites
• site editors expect lean & efficient media creation/organization process
• we simply need to handle media well

"If I could snap my fingers and add one single feature to Drupal core it would be good Media handling."

What's up with D8?

DrupalCon Prague

Plan in 5 simple steps

Ease of use

Pluggable framework

Deliver basic components ASAP

Use existing tools

Non file-centric storage components

Sprint at NYC DrupalCamp

We keep working on two separate storage components

Decouple the ecosystem into independent parts

• Each independent component should be able to work with both storage approaches
• That usually means they can be used also in non-media context
• Entity WYSIWYG embed (entity_embed) - Google Summer of code project
• Entity browser (entity_browser)
• Fallback formatter (fallback_formatter)

Roadmap

Roadmap - step 1

• entity WYSIWYG embed: basic API
• entity browser: basic API + working demo
• storage components
• entity browser: "tabs" plugins

Roadmap - step 2

• entity embed: UI/UX, integration with CKEditor
• entity embed <=> entity browser integration
• entity browser: media library implementation

Roadmap - step 3

• entity browser: "currently selected" list
• display configuration
• fallback/inherit formatter
• integration with upload solutions (Plupload, ...)

Roadmap - step 4

• 3rd party integrations
• cropping
• derivatives
• advanced access control and rights management

Challenges in Drupal 8

Challenges in D8

External dependencies for contrib

#1398772: Consider composer.json to manage dependencies instead of .info files

Challenges in D8

Using formatters and widgets on data without any real fields

Lack of actual decoupling in core.

Too many fields? File, image, and entity reference?

#2274169: EntityViewBuilder::viewField() / viewFieldItem() don't work for arbitrary added field values

#1448124: Image dimensions should be available from file_load() for images, and not stored in field data

#2271349: Node and Comment links should be display components

Challenges in D8

Files lack proper access controller

#2078473: Use entity access API for checking access to private files

#2148353: File access (hook_file_download) does not use an EntityAccessController

Challenges in D8

Typed Data and Plugins

#2278073: Files with spaces in URIs fail entity TypedData validation

#2277981: Provide a service for handling context-aware plugins

Challenges in D8

File usage system deletes your files

We need help!

We need people of various expertise

• frontend
• UX
• interface design
• backend
• project mgmt
• ideas, past experience
• You name it!

How to get involved?

• groups.drupal.org/media
• weekly scrum meetings on Hangout onAir
• Projects on d.o: entity_browser, entity_embed, fallback_formatter, media_entity, media, file_entity
• drupalmedia.hackpad.com
• #drupal-media @ Freenode
• @Dave Reid, drupal.org/user/53892
• Friday sprint
• DrupalCon Amsterdam
• organize a sprint (drop as a line!)
• ...