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Previously, I had struggled with maintaining a demo site (the cost was just few hundred euro per year, but the time and effort to maintain it was distracting me a lot). Am open to ideas on how we can make this affordable and sustainable.

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Simplytest.me

Previously, I had struggled with maintaining a demo site (the cost was just few hundred euro per year, but the time and effort to maintain it was distracting me a lot). Am open to ideas on how we can make this affordable and sustainable.

Sorry to hear that. Maintaining demo site is indeed a lot of work. Thanks for your contributions with the previous demo while it was realistic for you to maintain it.

To resolve this challenge above, I suggest using the Drupal powered https://simplytest.me

Benefit with SimplyTest:

  • Reduce your workload. Because a team of volunteers is presently maintaining SimplyTest. Details at https://www.drupal.org/project/simplytest
  • Free
  • Easy to use. Three steps: 1. Go to https://simplytest.me/project/pm/10.x 2. Fill the form appropriately. 3. Click on "Launch Sandbox" button. Wait. The demo will automatically load and redirect you to the demo page.
  • One Click Demo. Optionally, I suggest for you as PM maintainer, to invite SimplyTest maintainer to collaborate. About adding a "One Click Demo" button on the front page at https://simplytest.me Similar to the already exiting "One Click Demo" for "Drupal Commerce Demo".

    • One Click Demos

  • Well documented. Find https://www.drupal.org/node/2044361

Note:

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d34dman commented

@Francewhoa,

Sorry to hear that. Maintaining demo site is indeed a lot of work. Thanks for your contributions with the previous demo while it was realistic for you to maintain it.

Thanks. Also to give due credits to Julian, who spend more time on it than I did :)

To resolve this challenge above, I suggest using the Drupal powered https://simplytest.me

Thats indeed one of the best solutions we have atm. For Drupal 7, we did provide an integration over here https://www.drupal.org/project/dfs_pm.
This was not published on Drupal PM's home page due to some in-stability issues. In short, it never provided an out of the box experience I was hoping for.

This could be due to the complexity of the project back then. Having a better "Default Content" support in Drupal 10 now, maybe the ride might be smoother now.

As of March 5th, 2023, it seems that the Drupal.org code repository does not have a PM version for Drupal 10.x publicly available.

I have created a release 4.1.x DEV release, let see if it gets picked up.

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Status: Active » Needs review

Trying to use https://simplytest.me/ to test "Drupal PM" doesn't work. Simply Test is generating a broken site for me.

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Tried again, logging into a site based on "pm" gives following error,

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /var/lib/tugboat/stm/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Query/Condition.php on line 211
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Title: Setup Demo instance for 4.x » Setup Demo instance for 4.1.x
Version: 4.x-dev » 4.1.x-dev
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Sorry, if I am doing something wrong, by changing the issue's metadata like this.

I've tried to use simplytest.me for installing 4.1.x on Drupal 11.3.2 and I've completed installation with some warnings only:

Deprecated function: Drupal\pm\PathProcessor\PmPathProcessor::processOutbound(): Implicitly marking parameter $request as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in include() (line 576 of /var/lib/tugboat/stm/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php).

Deprecated function: Drupal\pm\PathProcessor\PmPathProcessor::processOutbound(): Implicitly marking parameter $bubbleable_metadata as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in include() (line 576 of /var/lib/tugboat/stm/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php).

I think that the efforts for this project are quite nice.

Thanks for everything:)

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Related issues: +#3433941: Automated Drupal 11 compatibility fixes for pm

  • d34dman committed cf413c6d on 4.1.x 
    fix #3345676: Fix Implicitly marking parameter $request as nullable...

  • d34dman committed cf413c6d on 4.x 
    fix #3345676: Fix Implicitly marking parameter $request as nullable...
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d34dman commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review

Fixed in 4.1.x-dev (please not that this fix is not in 4.1.0-alpha1)

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

I've tested with 4.1.x-dev and it works now.

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Now that this issue is closed, review the contribution record.

As a contributor, attribute any organization that helped you, or if you volunteered your own time.

Maintainers, credit people who helped resolve this issue.

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Good morning @d34dman, @orkut-murat-yılmaz and all contributors

This is to confirm that PM 4.1.x-dev demo works for me to. I used Drupal 11.3.2 at https://simplytest.me/configure?project=pm&version=4.1.x-dev

Congrats to all who contributed to this 💚

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@d34dman, for your consideration and for your decision, on the Drupal PM project page at https://www.drupal.org/project/pm/
I suggest adding a Demo link to https://simplytest.me/configure?project=pm&version=4.1.x-dev

I created a new ticket about this suggestion at https://www.drupal.org/project/pm/issues/3569503

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.