Issue 226 - February, 11th 2016

News

If you checkout Drupal's 8.1.x branch now you will notice that the vender directory is empty. Running composer install will download the required dependencies.

Cottser is now a provisional Drupal 8 committer.

Dries made the announced that Drupal is in need of a new co-maintainer for the 7 branch.

The Commerce Guys are spinning their Drupal plaform service Platform.sh off into it's own company.

The community is looking for GSoC project ideas.

"One of the most important lessons of 2015 for the Engineering Team here at the Drupal Association is that we need better ways to engage with you, the community."

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