Introduction to DrupalSpoons, a new developer workflow for Drupal contributors - Tag1 TeamTalk #017

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Maintaining Drupal projects and managing Drupal modules can be challenging for even contributors who have unlimited time. For decades now, Drupal's ecosystem has cultivated a wide array of tools for contributors to create patches, report issues, collaborate on code, and perform continuous integration. But as many source control providers begin to release shiny new features like web IDEs and issue workspaces that aim to make open-source contributors' lives even easier, many are doubtlessly wondering how Drupal's own developer workflows figure in an emerging world of innovation in the space.

DrupalSpoons, created by Moshe Weitzman and recently released, is a special configuration of groups and projects in GitLab that provides a bevy of useful features and tools for Drupal contributors who are maintaining Drupal projects. A play on the word "fork," which refers to a separately maintained clone of a codebase that still retains a link to the prior repository, DrupalSpoons offers support for GitLab issues, merge requests (GitLab's analogue for GitHub's pull requests), and continuous integration on contributed Drupal projects in the ecosystem. It leverages zero custom code, apart from the issue migration process to aid DrupalSpoons newcomers, and outlines potential trajectories for Drupal contribution in the long term as well.

In this exciting episode of Tag1 Team Talks, Moshe Weitzman (Subject Matter Expert, Senior Architect, and Project Lead at Tag1) hopped on with Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a deep dive into what makes DrupalSpoons so compelling for Drupal contributors and the origin story that inspired Moshe to build it. Join us to learn how you can replace your existing Drupal contribution workflows with DrupalSpoons to get the most out of Drupal's recent migration to GitLab and the most modern capabilities in Drupal code management today.