Previous/Inactive Initiatives

These initiatives are currently inactive. Others listed elsewhere that are also inactive:

Aggregator (D7)

Currently there are no improvement initiatives for aggregator active. For open issues see Aggregator issues on Drupal's issue queue.

Backwards compatibility [Wishlist, not initiative]

I know that this topic was discussed before, and not once. Yet if I would raise core initiative, it will be about backwards compatibility.

Blog API (D7)

A fork has been created of the blogapi.module called blogapi_new to build improvements based around Drupal 6 with the goal of then merging

Configuration Management Initiative (CMI)

At this stage in Drupal 8, most members of initiatives are helping across all initiatives, focusing on criticals and getting Drupal 8

Configuration Management, Automation & Features (D7)

Drupal core should include the ability to:

Contact (D7)

This page outlines planned improvements to Drupal's core contact module for Drupal version 7 or 8. See contact.module issues in Drupal's

D8DX: Improving the D8 developer experience

The Goal

Database API (D7)N

If you're looking to help out with the database API, start here! Actually, first start with The Extensive Docs, and the full issue queue.

Date in Eight

Date is a contributed module that is used on the majority of sizeable Drupal sites. While there is quite a bit of functionality in the Date

Design Initiative

Initiative to establish procedures for new themes, and add a new theme to Drupal Core

Design and Theming (D7)

Moving action items over from Designers, Drupal, and the Future, which reflect a consensus reached between several top themers in the Drupal

Drupal 7 UX Topics and Issues

User Experience initiative for Drupal 7

Drupal 8 User Experience

Improve content creation and sitebuilder tools for Drupal 8

Drupal 8 official initiatives

At this stage in Drupal 8, most members of initiatives are helping across all initiatives, focusing on criticals and getting Drupal 8

Field API (D7)

The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. Field

File Management Entity in Core

Add a file entity to Drupal Core

File system (D7)

Now that the hook_file patch has been committed I'm trying to keep the files in core movement moving. Some of these have issues on d.o and

Form API

If you want to make FormAPI more functional, more documented or more swish, get involved in the issue queue.

HTML5 Initiative

Implement HTML5 in Drupal Core

Help and Curated/Official Documentation System

Drupal currently lacks a system for writing really good technical documentation. We should have one, and in particular, the Drupal

Image handling (D7)

quicksketch and drewish have been working to try to get the ImageAPI and ImageCache modules' functionality moved into core.

Internationalization (D7)

This page is outdated. For more up to date Drupal 8 plans, see http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-initiatives

JavaScript

Improve JavaScript in Drupal 8

Layouts (SCOTCH)

At this stage in Drupal 8, most members of initiatives are helping across all initiatives, focusing on criticals and getting Drupal 8

Learnability

Drupal is growing up, and with its maturity comes a complexity that is making it harder and harder to learn. We have initiatives that focus

Mobile Initiative

The Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative is a concerted effort to make Drupal 8 a first-class mobile platform.

Multilingual Initiative (D8MI)

At this stage in Drupal 8, most members of initiatives are helping across all initiatives, focusing on criticals and getting Drupal 8

PHPUnit initiative

Everything is being coordinated in [#2807237], see the issue summary for details.

Path and Path API

This page outlines planned improvements to Drupal's core path module. See path.module issues in Drupal's issue queue.

Performance

Issues that impact Drupal's performance. Have a need for speed and some mad benchmarking skills? Help out here!

RDF/RDFa (D7)

RDF/RDFa is major new functionality in Drupal 7 which describes Drupal entities (nodes, user, comments, terms) and their relationship in a

Responsive Design

This is a clearing house page for issues, projects and modules related to the effort to update Drupal with support for modern responsive web

Search module in Drupal 8

Overhaul Search module for a flexible plugin architecture

Small Drupal

Aim: The Small Drupal initiative aims to ensure that Drupal remains accessible to small organizations in version 8 and beyond.

Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 8 core

Spark is an initiative announced by Dries Buytaert at DrupalCon Denver, and focuses on authoring experience improvements for Drupal. We

Statistics

This page outlines planned improvements to Drupal's core statistics module for Drupal version 7. See statistics.module issues in Drupal's

Testing in Drupal 7

Improve automated tests in Drupal 7

Twig and the new theme layer in Drupal 8

Update status module (D7)

Update (status) module is what notifies end users if there are new available releases for any of their installed modules and themes,

Views in Drupal Core

Add Views module to Drupal Core for Drupal 8

WYSIWYG

At the start of the Drupal 7 release cycle, Dries outlined the top 10 features that should be added to Drupal core for a "killer release".

Web Services Initiative (WSCCI)

At this stage in Drupal 8, most members of initiatives are helping across all initiatives, focusing on criticals and getting Drupal 8

Well Formed Errors Initiative

The Goal

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