It’s been an exciting summer, building our first product with Drupal 8. When we originally made the decision to offer Long Term Support for Drupal 6 , we were thinking about a few of our clients that were a little behind on their upgrade plans, and had envisioned a mostly manual process. However, once we took the plunge and signed up new clients, we had more modules and themes to track than could easily be done manually, and it remained critically important we never miss an upstream release. The Tag1 Quo Dashboard, managing multiple websites. This ultimately led to building Tag1 Quo , a product built on top of Drupal 8 to automatically track upstream releases and security advisories, comparing them against subscriber code bases to determine which need to be backported. This automation was combined with an administrative dashboard and email notification system resulting in a fancy system that quickly delivers all applicable patches to new and existing customers, ensuring everyone stays up to date while also making it easy for us to track ongoing security issues. Why Drupal 8 The first step was architecting the central service where all this information was going to be collected, stored, parsed... Read more
Jeremy
Mon, 08/22/2016 - 08:42