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0️⃣ Roll Call! Who is here today? Introduce yourself including your name and drupal.org username. If you feel comfortable, mention the song that you last listened to!

mradcliffe Hi, Matthew here (mradcliffe). I put on shuffle for all my music as I was porting D12 modules, and as I typed this a new song started and it is “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell from a Halloween Party Monster Mix.
bircher bircher - Stäffisburg by Patent Ochsner

1️⃣ CLI in Core Initiative Meta discussion

1️⃣ 0️⃣ Meta Issue—https://www.drupal.org/node/3582246

mradcliffe I haven't made progress on issue summary updates.
mradcliffe I need to create a meeting notes issue from last week.
mradcliffe https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3602919

2️⃣ Phase 2

2️⃣ 0️⃣ Timeline

2️⃣ 1️⃣ Follow-up issues:

mradcliffe -#3594184: CLI cannot discover commands in subdirectories that have a period in the name
mradcliffe A proposal for closing the feature request[#3588144], what are your thoughts @ifrik?
ifrik What are the reasons proposing to close it?
mradcliffe @dww mentioned some concerns over exposing sensitive CLI commands to the UI.
ifrik Hmm... which would that be? Because I was thinking of only exposing them on those admin pages where you can do the same action in the GUI as in the CLI
ifrik So, if you can't do the action on the GUI, then you won't see the CLI command
mradcliffe Oh, I didn't realize moshe already closed it. Feel free to reply re-open.
mradcliffe comment #5 has the list of things.
ifrik My whole point was to make it easier for sitebuilders and site admins to start using (more) cli commands, not to run CLI commands in the UI. But maybe I was not clear about what I was suggesting
mradcliffe https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3597406
bircher @ifrik you mean we add an optional "route(s)" argument to the attribute or another attribute and then the ui has a small block that tells you "some of the things here can be done via cli" like the help module?
ifrik yes!  It only needs to be the information that an cli commands exist. No need to make it do anything in the GUI (edited)
ifrik I've been using drush for years and I still miss the fact that there is a drush command for a module so I do it in the GUI. And some tasks are just faster in the CLI - like indexing your search - so sitebuilders benefit from knowing about the commands.
ifrik @mradcliffe I've commented on[#3588144]#comment-16647206 and added a mockup because the concerns seem to address functionality that I didn't propose. Is it okay to reopen it?

2️⃣ 2️⃣ Command issues:

mradcliffe

2️⃣ 3️⃣ API Documentation—https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/drupal-apis/command-line-interface-c...

mradcliffe @Gábor Hojtsy (he/him) asked about a Drush porting guide and I think either a page on the API documentation or a page underneath the Initiative page?
mradcliffe @bircher described a bit of the process in the discussion in dww in #cli-in-core from last week.
bircher yes so the most "difficult" is to convert a class with many methods (one command per method) into many classes for one command each. Then one can extend the command for dr to a new class where drush loads the classes and one easily supports both
mradcliffe Hmm, I thought discovery would support AsCommand on the method as well as the class
bircher maybe, but the location is different for both anyway
bircher do we have tests for that? or examples?
mradcliffe No example or tests for that.
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him) The change record explains one class many commands!
mradcliffe AsCommand attribute is only targeting classes
mradcliffe Symfony 8.1 adds support for method based commands
mradcliffe but not in Symfony 8.0
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him) That is important to elaborate on the change record too then ;)

2️⃣ 4️⃣ User Documentation

3️⃣ Planning

3️⃣ 0️⃣ Rotterdam session: https://events.drupal.org/rotterdam2026/session/joyful-tour-through-cli-...

4️⃣ If you have anything else to talk about, please start a new thread below numbered 4️⃣ 1️⃣ , etc...

Participants:

mradcliffe, bircher, ifrik, Gábor Hojtsy

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