{"id":8193,"date":"2015-09-25T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2023-09-05T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:24:24","slug":"drupalcon-barcelona-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siteground.com\/blog\/drupalcon-barcelona-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"DrupalCon Barcelona 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SiteGround<\/p>\n

And yet another DrupalCon went by. SiteGround team attended one of the biggest Drupal events for the year to meet some of the smartest people in the community in Barcelona this week.
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The Buzzword Drupal 8<\/h3>\n

This DrupalCon was supposed to be a landmark when the new Drupal 8 version was going to be released. But it wasn\u2019t. The first release candidate was announced for October 7 instead. That is why the Project Founder Dries Buytaert had to address some very difficult questions in his keynote session. There is a downward trend in adopting the current Drupal 7 version and there is responsibility to take for the delay of the Drupal 8 and it release 5 years after it was conceived.<\/p>\n

Dries had managed to assure the community that the downward adoption of the current version is normal once the news of a new one goes out, the so-called Osborne Effect. On the other hand, he took personal responsibility for the delay of the Drupal 8 release, based on the way the development cycle is structured and how it locks new feature addition when they start working on a new version. The good news is he has a strategy for changing that in the future and working new features in new branches, which will allow shortening the release cycle.<\/p>\n