Timeline of Symfony in Drupal 8 related issues and posts
In preparation for my talk at Drupalcamp Spain 2012 about Symfony in Drupal 8 I made a list of some relevant issues and posts related to the topic. In pretty much chronological order.
TIMELINE
April 2010
September 2010
March 2011
April 2011
August 2011
June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
September 2011
October 2011
- What Symfonic Drupal means
- Switch to Symfony2-based session handling (Previously: Refactor session handling)
- PSR-0 compatible class loader in core
- "Drupal core now ships with the Symfony2 ClassLoader"
- What is Symfony2?
November 2011
December 2011
- A PHP Christmas Miracle - 3 Frameworks, 1 app
- Rethinking WSCCI
- "However, after some additional research and discussion with Symfony2 folks I realized that what we were trying to do... Symfony2's component libraries already do."
- "I propose that we cut to the chase and port Drupal to Symfony2's HttpKernel library, and accept the rather drastic changes that will result."
January 2012
February 2012
- The future is a RESTful Drupal
- Refocusing WSCCI
- "Why Symfony2? Well, quite simply, its low-level components are already solid REST-based systems, exactly what we've been trying to build."
- Drupal 8: The path forward
February 2012
- Evaluate Symfony form component as a replacement for Drupal FAPI
- [policy] How to handle unforeseen diversion of Symfony code in stable/API-locked Drupal core?
- Symfony Release Process
March 2012
- Add a Drupal kernel; leverage HttpFoundation and HttpKernel
- Core subsystems converted to PSR-0 standard
- Use Symfony EventDispatcher for hook system
- WSCCI Routing in Denver
- Use Dependency Injection to handle object definitions
April 2012
May 2012
- Switch page caching to HttpCache
- Implement new routing system
- Change file_transfer() to use readfile()
- Allow modules to register services and subscriber services (events)
June 2012
July 2012
- Add the Doctrine Common PHP library
- Enable secure compiled information on disk
- Compile the Injection Container to disk
August 2012
- Larry Gardfield's WSCCI presentation in Drupalcon Munich 2012: Slides, Video
- Planning for Security implications of using external libraries
October 2012








Been a while
Boy we've been at this a long time. :-) Thanks, Pedro!
Serializer
You forgot the Serializer component, which landed just recently.
Wow, great stuff!
Great presentation!
My favorite is:
http://de.slideshare.net/weaverryan/a-php-christmas-miracle-3-frameworks...
That really made me understand DIC, etc.
That one is eye-opening to the world of frameworks :).
Serializer
Thanks for the reminder @tstoeckler :-)
Updated to include the Serializer. It is in October 2011.
Bundles
http://drupal.org/node/1599108 here. That was a big one too.
Actually, Serializer was just
Actually, Serializer was just committed this week. That's October 2012.
Dates
@Lin Clark
I know. But the dates are for when the issues are created, not when the patches are committed (except for one case noted with "patch").
Right, I created that issue.
Right, I created that issue. It was created this month.
Right
Oh, sorry Lin, my bad, you're right I made a mistake with the year.
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