Port to Drupal 8

[soniktrooth]

Drupal 8 is looming large. What to do with Kalatheme?

• Is it it needed? We don't want to reinvent the wheel.
• If it is, do we need a feature complete port?
• What features do we want for a full release?
• What features could constitute a MVP for an alpha release (suitable for CSI)?

Once these things are discussed and decided we should spin up a wiki page to document the goals of the project to inform the community.

I will set up 3 milestones: alpha, beta, 1.0.

• Alpha will be MVP
• Beta will be feature complete
• 1.0 will be feature complete and bug free (ha!)

More complete documentation will happen at Kalatheme D8 Design Goals

[soniktrooth]

Ping @labboy0276 @andrewmallis

[labboy0276]

After our meeting, we can loop back to this I suppose and update with our notes

[RobLoach]

Contrib

• Bootstrap
  • Would be a great base theme, as it does a lot of what templates/core and includes implements (assuming we're sticking with Bootstrap)
• Bootstrap Layouts
  • Provides the Panels/Display Suite layouts using Bootstrap classes, similar to templates/panels

What would help

• Allow themes to declare dependencies on modules
• Anything that we could adopt from Panopoly8?

[labboy0276]

Bootstrap is a good base theme, but it is very very heavy code wise. Plus it can be a pain to work with CSS wise due to the alters they call. I looked at their D8 version for ideas on porting Kalatheme. I used the BS theme on 2 d8 projects I worked on as well, so those are my thoughts. More to talk about at the meeting in this light.

[andrewmallis]

Should we target Boostrap 4?
http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2015/08/19/bootstrap-4-alpha/
It is still in alpha but looks like it's coming along: twbs/bootstrap#17021
not advocating the bleeding edge, but it might kinda suck if 4 came out just as we were done…

We'll need a plan to update docs to indicate version relevance given that some features will be dropped in 4.x

For our MVP, we should leave behind:

• subtheme generation tool
• bootswatch integration
• kalacustomize plug-in

Also, given there is no D8 panopoly, our classes and theme functions that improve that package can be left behind.

[soniktrooth]

@labboy0276 is going to outline some high level tasks for alpha here:

• High level tasks for D8 alpha port #253

Bootstrap version issue pegged for beta:

• Which version of Bootstrap do we want for D8? #254

[andrewmallis]

@derekderaps + @RobLoach – putting this issue on your radar. We will want to have one or both of you involved soon in planning, and most certainly in QA of the issues that get us towards an 8.x alpha