Start an 11.0.x branch for Varbase with Recipe Installer Kit

Problem/Motivation

Move forward with full compatibility for the upcoming Drupal releases and new core capabilities.
To ensure stability, best practices, and future-proof development, Varbase must adopt:

• Full support for Drupal ~11.3.0
• Full support for Drupal recipes
• Full support for Default Content in Drupal Core
• New support for Drupal Canvas integration
• Switch hard coded scripts and make use of the ECA workflows integration

These enhancements are required to align Varbase with modern Drupal development workflows, support composer-based recipe installations, and enable Canvas-driven development and preview environments.

Proposed resolution

• Start an 11.0.x branch
• Move with the logic of Drupal CMS Starter as a starting point for projects
• Build on top of Drupal CMS with Recipe Installer Kit

1 | Varbase Installer method

Create directory and change direcotry in the terminal

Example folder varbase11x00b1

mkdir varbase11x00b1
cd varbase11x00b1

Run the following commands

ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web --php-version=8.4
ddev start
ddev composer create-project "drupal/varbase_project:11.0.x-dev"
ddev launch

Both methods

2 | Drupal CMS Installer method

Managed to have Varbase Starter site template recipe
Which works in both Drupal CMS installer and Varbase installer profile

Create directory and change direcotry in the terminal

Example folder dcsm2x00b1

mkdir drupalcms2x00b1
cd drupalcms2x00b1

Run the following commands

ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web
ddev start
ddev composer create-project "drupal/cms:^2" -s beta --no-install
ddev composer config minimum-stability dev
ddev composer require drupal/varbase_starter:1.0.x-dev --no-install
ddev composer install
ddev launch

Remaining tasks

• ✅ File an issue about this project
• ✅ Addition/Change/Update/Fix to this project
• ✅ Testing to ensure no regression
• ✅ Automated unit/functional testing coverage
• ✅ Developer Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ User Guide Documentation support on feature change/addition
• ➖ UX/UI designer responsibilities
• ➖ Accessibility and Readability
• ✅ Code review from 1 Varbase core team member
• ✅ Full testing and approval
• ✅ Credit contributors
• ✅ Review with the product owner
• ✅ Update Release Notes and Update Helper on new feature change/addition
• ✅ Release varbase-11.0.0-alpha1

Varbase update type

• ✅ No Update
• ➖ Optional Update
• ➖ Forced Update
• ➖ Forced Update if Unchanged

User interface changes

• N/A

API changes

• N/A

Data model changes

• N/A

Release notes snippet

• feat: #3561802 Start an 11.0.x branch for Varbase with Recipe Installer Kit