Written on April 14, 2013 - 11:49

At BADCamp 2011 in San Francisco, Yves Chedemois, Greg Dunlap and I sat down to talk how we'd have to convert Field API to the configuration system that is now in Drupal 8.

Fast forward to April 13 2013. After months of hard work, with initial work done at DrupalCon Munich, the patch was finally ready to be committed. The Drupal
core maintainers agreed that Alex Pott and I could commit this patch live on stage at Frontend United! And I had the honor of pushing the final button. I'll never be closer than this being a core comitter :)

Graham Taylor (@g_taylor) captured it all on video. 5 minutes of Drupal History.

We can use your help

But we're not done yet. A lot of work still needs to be done for Field API to be ready for Drupal 8. We've setup a site which collects the most important patches. So bookmark following site and pick your favorite topic: http://realize.be/field-api/

Thanks to everyone involved, with special mentions to Yves Chedemois (@yched), Alex Pott (@alexpott), Jess Myrbo (@xjmdrupal) and Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker).