Recording from July 31st 2015 Drupal 8 critical issues discussion

We met again today to discuss critical issues blocking Drupal 8's release (candidate). (See all prior recordings). Here is the recording of the meeting video and chat from today in the hope that it helps more than just those who were on the meeting:

If you also have significant time to work on critical issues in Drupal 8 and we did not include you, let me know as soon as possible.

The meeting log is as follows (all times are CEST real time at the meeting):

[11:03am] jibran: I think it is sorted by name [11:03am] jibran: the order in the hangout [11:03am] WimLeers: y [11:07am] jibran: We have to look at google hangout code base for that. [11:08am] WimLeers: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157#comment-10172426" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157#comment-10172426">https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157#comment-10172426</a> [11:08am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157">https://www.drupal.org/node/2499157</a> => [meta] Auto-placeholdering [#2499157] => 5 comments, 4 IRC mentions [11:11am] WimLeers: amateescu's issue link: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627#comment-10160850" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627#comment-10160850">https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627#comment-10160850</a> [11:11am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627">https://www.drupal.org/node/2336627</a> => Deadlock on cache_config (DatabaseBackend::setMultiple()) [#2336627] => 39 comments, 24 IRC mentions [11:12am] WimLeers: plach: yay for vacation :D [11:12am] GaborHojtsy: VACATIOOOOOON! [11:12am] GaborHojtsy: sometime, sometime :) [11:12am] alexpott: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762</a> is the nearly ready issue [11:12am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542762</a> => hook_entity_type_update doesn't get the entity in the new revision after addTranslation and setNewRevision [#2542762] => 11 comments, 4 IRC mentions [11:13am] alexpott: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748</a> is the gnarly update issue [11:13am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748</a> => Automatic entity updates are not safe to run on update.php by default [#2542748] => 21 comments, 7 IRC mentions [11:15am] plach: WimLeers: :) [11:15am] WimLeers: alexpott: yay :) [11:15am] dawehner: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416">https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416</a> [11:15am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416">https://www.drupal.org/node/2540416</a> => Decide whether we need hook_upgrade_N()/upgrade.php front controller [#2540416] => 27 comments, 4 IRC mentions [11:16am] WimLeers: dawehner: cache tables are auto-created [11:16am] naveenvalecha|af left the chat room. (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [11:16am] WimLeers: but yeah, router table etc… #sadpanda [11:19am] WimLeers: The issue that originally turned it from a separate PHP file into a route + controller: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119">https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119</a> [11:19am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119">https://www.drupal.org/node/2250119</a> => Run updates in a full environment [#2250119] => 21 comments, 1 IRC mention [11:34am] WimLeers: plach: ROFL [11:34am] WimLeers: plach++ [11:43am] WimLeers: "a foam of circles" lol [11:48am] alexpott: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748</a> [11:48am] Druplicon: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748" title="https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748">https://www.drupal.org/node/2542748</a> => Automatic entity updates are not safe to run on update.php by default [#2542748] => 21 comments, 8 IRC mentions [11:55am] dawehner: WimLeers: well but those tables aren't auto fixed [11:56am] dawehner: WimLeers: so just imagine what happens if you need to change the cache_ tables [12:00pm] WimLeers: dawehner: ohhh! [12:02pm] WimLeers: plach: is that the church bells in Venice that I'm hearing? [12:03pm] WimLeers: dawehner: lol [12:03pm] WimLeers: :) [12:05pm] plach: WimLeers: yeah, sorry :) [12:05pm] WimLeers: plach: made me feel like I was on vacation, ever so briefly [12:05pm] WimLeers: :D [12:05pm] plach: :) [12:23pm] dawehner: alexpott: are the issues the new thing or the solutions ;) [12:24pm] alexpott: dawehner: well we have better ideas

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Recording from July 31st 2015 Drupal 8 critical issues discussion