Workflow Initiative Needs Review

We have been extremely hard at work this year with the Workflow Initiative bringing some quite big underlying changes to the Entity API and some great advances in core such as the Content Moderation module. There are now around 8 weeks until feature freeze for 8.3.x and there’s still a number of key things we want to get in. Please take a look at our kanban board and see if there’s anything you’d like to take a look at even if it’s just a quick review, a little feedback, or a +1.

At the time of writing this post there are 8 Workflow Initiative issues in Needs Review:Which core entities get revisions?
We are looking at making more content entities in core revisionable, this will roll out gradually, but which ones should we make revisionable?Add a content entity form which allows to set revisions
This is mainly an effort by the Media Initiative, but affects the Workflow Initiative too. The idea is to have a generic entity form for revisionable entities.Add a publishing status field to BlockContent
Shock horror! Block content entities are currently not able to be unpublished. We need to fix this! This will be a pattern for making other things able to be unpublished too.Upgrade path between revisionable / non-revisionable entities
This patch has had so many iterations but the current one is looking pretty awesome. It will give ups an upgrade path for entity types such as taxonomy terms and menu links to have revisions.Introduce sorted set key value store
Before we introduce Workspaces in core we want to store a sequence of entity updates, a sorted set key value store will allow us to do this.Store revision id in originalRevisionId property to use after revision id is updated
There are a number of bugs in core which require us to know what the revision id of an entity object used to be. This issue solves this by adding a simple property.Introduce a EditorialContentEntityBase class for revisionable and publishable entity types
When we make more entity types revisionable and publishable it’d be great if they all extended the same base class. This issues does this for Nodes, we will then be able to roll it out to Block content once publishable, and other entities once revisionable.WI: Content Moderation module roadmap
Content moderation is currently in core as an alpha experimental module. How can we get this to beta then stable?

timmillwood
Thu, 08/12/2016 - 10:49