Without a doubt, 2015 was one of the Drupal community's best years. We continued to grow and change from being on an island to more of a peninsula. We also released the best Drupal version ever.
If you look back at our predictions for 2015, the Drupal 8 release was one of the most predicted events for the year. Now the question is: what we will be doing in 2016?
Will we have a decoupled Drupal? Will Drupal 9 be released? Will we see a "Drupal 6 Legacy Support" program? It is that time of year when you—yes, you—can predict the future of Drupal; take a look at your crystal ball and describe what you see. Share your deepest thoughts on what will happen for us as a community, what will happen to our code, and the difference our work might make.
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More robust eLearning-related modules
I suspect 2016 will see better support and improved extensibility for existing online learning tools and environments such as H5P and E-Learning. Drupal provides an incredibly robust foundation for users to develop customized online learning environments but is only slightly behind the curve of dedicated online learning environments such as Moodle or Canvas. We may have to wait until 2017 for the analytics improvements that result from the predicted improvement to Drupal online learning environments.
Drupal 8.1 and Drupal 8.2 are
Drupal 8.1 and Drupal 8.2 are easy predictions for 2016.
My personal hope that Drupal
My personal hope that Drupal 8 core will be localized to all European languages in 100%.
Drupal Mobile App
I wish I could make a powerful Mobile App with Drupal as the backend this year.
In future, the world is Mobile App + Mobile Web + Web, 3-in-1 implementation
Core will separate completely
Core will separate completely from drupal as a distribution - the distribution will be composed of some empty folders, some profiles and a composer.json file that references drupal/core. Make files will disappear. Drupal console will begin to replace Drush. Someone will demostrate exporting a whole site (ie. content included) to code, threatening the idea of a canonical database.
NoSql database support
I guess given the popularity of NoSql, some NoSql database support will be added ( preferrably CouchDb). On a more futuristic view, Polyglot Persistence should become a reality.
CouchDB
Have you seen the Relaxed Web Services module (https://www.drupal.org/project/relaxed) it exposes Drupal as a Couch database, allowing replication of content entities using the CouchDB API.
drupal 8+node js+AngularJS+phonegap
NodeJS,Meteor,AngularJS and PhoneGap.
All Drupal 7 contrib module will available for Drupal 8
We will see all D7 support module also available in to D8.
Make it or break it year for Community support for d.o.
This year will show if d.o. can still attract community volunteers or if it needs to become a 100% DA affair. I hope the DA will recognize that their continued blocking of volunteer efforts for vital community tools (especially the forums) is wrong and highly contra-productive to their core mission (https://www.drupal.org/node/2536122).
Even without movement on these issues drupal.org will continue to get further massive improvements.
Processes
In 2016 we'll get a clear decision making process for core. Hopefully.
That happened in 2015
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/governance/plain/drupal-core.html#decisions
Knowing who is half the
Knowing who is half the battle, the how is still a mess.
Can you clarify what of the "how" is not covered?
I'm not sure what information you are looking for that is not covered? The policy is very detailed and explains when a signoff is needed, how to tag that on the issue, who can give the signoff, what to to do when a signoff is missing, and what each role's specific responsibilities are.
If you could submit a governance issue to explain more what is not clear that would help. :)
https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/governance?categories=All
Amazon adds CMS-as-a-service,
EDIT: I've provided more information about these predictions on my blog.
London Drupal Developer
Drupal 8 adoption
we will have bigpipe in core
In 2016, we will have big_pipe in core
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More Drupal 8
I think we'll see a gradual advancement of Drupal 8 modules and projects.
People will tinker with the new apis that are available. Someone will probably make one of these kinds of modules:
Something that makes it easy to create config entities and get them working with the Plugin API
Something to improve the UI of layouts.
Something like Features that will help with the export, organization of config for Drupal 8
Hopefully:
We'll see attempts to improve the administrative UI
Something like features...
Something like features... like features? :)
https://www.drupal.org/project/features
You caught my joke
Yes, like specifically the features module. But perhaps not the features module.
Maybe something like extending the configuration system to improve it's creation / organization of configuration so that you don't need the full features module. Maybe a system-driven, rule-based, organization of configuration and folders.
PHP 7 as default dependancy...
Webfor Apps : Drupal + JS frameworks + NoSQLCheers
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Toward the Web 4.0
My predictions (and hope) for this year.
Drupal 8 is the first tool with heavy bases... We now have a tool which can connect potentially to every system thanks to the (core) REST service. Some technologies (such as ProcessMaker) has already developed a module (still in beta) to connect and interchange data with D8.
Bootstrap based themes are actually growing in the community.
Someone told that the web 4.0 will starts in 2020. D8 has the power to anticipate some of the discussed stuff of "this" web.
Time will tell :-)
Workflow is now an active core initiative
Content staging/federation is one of the use cases for the Workflow core initiative announced at DC New Orleans, so prediction 3 is underway already.
I'd actually predict a slow,
I'd actually predict a slow, if stagnant adoption for D8. While I _love_ it personally, it is a very complex tool compared to past Drupal and other less capable competitor CMSes that are "just good enough". Unless contrib burns down the house I'm not seeing adoption this year going to new heights. It won't hit a nice stride until 2017.
I predict that in 2016, no
I predict that in 2016, no forum specific improvements will be made to Drupal.org, unless the improvements are for other parts of the site and just happen to also impact the forums.
Buwahahaha. Sad, but oh so
Buwahahaha. Sad, but oh so true
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2015 is a very nice years and
2015 is a very nice years and the year 2015 begin the global services for India. The 2016 is going to developing and improve in golden global services.
Software Testing Training in Chennai
Headless Drupal will make
Headless Drupal will make Drupal relevant.
AngularJS or Backbone.js
I think AngularJS will be good in India & Aboard.
The freshers who does AngularJS Training & Backbone.JS Training will get a easy job in 2016