October 2019 Meeting Notes

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 2:00pm

WDN Shared Governance Board Updates

  • Nominations open - Nominate yourself, or someone else (please note that the form requires you to be logged-in to access)
    • Nominations October 8–November 11
    • Voting open November 12–December 4

Framework 5 and deprecated.css

  • All sites must switch to 5.0 by October 21, 2019 (if you are in UNLcms, your site will switch automatically)
  • deprecated.css will be removed from the global include with October release. UNLcms sites will be unaffected. To continue using 4.1 classes outside the CMS, you'll need to manually include the stylesheet link in your "head" section: see https://wdn.unl.edu/documentation/5.0/using-olddeprecated-classes-and-css

WebAudit Metrics

Framework Updates and coming soon

  • Deprecated tables - not going away, still automatically included in UNLcms, see aforementioned deprecated classes information if you are outside UNLcms
  • Coming soon: Fixes for scrollable tables, DCF 2.0, Additional updated plugins and widgets (carousel, notice, tabs)
  • Requests? - Create an request on github

UNLcms updates

  • Drupal 8 was last week - already fixed 5 problems that were encountered at that rollout
  • Timeline
    • Now: Working through a more stable process for deploying new sites. Will be ready in the next two weeks and we will follow up with new testing sites for everyone
    • Next month @ WDN: Expect to have a stable production environment read. Demo of a real site in Drupal 8
    • UNLcms