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title: 'Talking Drupal #320 - Drupal 8 End of Life'

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# Talking Drupal #320 - Drupal 8 End of Life
Today we are talking about Drupal 8 End of Life with Gábor Hojtsy.

[TalkingDrupal.com/320](https://TalkingDrupal.com/320)

## Topics
* John - NEDCamp is in two weeks
* April - Planning Drupal Camp Asheville in person next year
* Gábor - Thinking of all versions of Drupal
* Nic - Vacation was great - visited Salem
* What End of Life (EoL) means
* Statistics on number of sites
* Why D8 EoL is before D7
* What can people do to continue using D8
* Does the new release schedule and EoL schedule improve the platform
* Improvements to the process
* Process expected for D9 and D10
* D8 -> D9 migration process affect on adoption
* Expected differences with D7 EoL
* Current Projects
* Contributions
* Next big thing
* Core committer experience over the years
* Initiative lead, lead
* Merge request support with gitlab
* Making core committer's life easier

## Resources
* [New England Drupal Camp](https://nedcamp.org/)
* [Old versions of Drupal](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2660622)
* [FGM getting it working on newer php](https://www.drupal.org/u/fgm)
* https://osinet.fr/presentation/histoire-blocs-drupal
* [Cheppers made a running version of Drupal 1 - 8](https://web.archive.org/web/20161014150735/https://cheppers.com/blog/drupal-genesis)
* [Drupal Usage](https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal)
* [Drupal Upgrade Status](https://www.drupal.org/project/upgrade_status)
* [Drupal 9 Deprecation](https://dev.acquia.com/drupal9/deprecation_status)
* [Drupal 10 Deprecation](https://dev.acquia.com/drupal10/deprecation_status)
* [Drupal rector sponsored by palantir.net](https://www.drupal.org/project/rector )
* [Multi-core compatibility](https://www.drupal.org/node/3070687 )
* [Project Update Bot](https://www.drupal.org/u/project-update-bot )
* [Lenient Composer Facade](https://drupal.org/composer/lenient)
* [Talking Drupal #312 - DrupalPod](https://talkingdrupal.com/312)
* [Closure of the multilingual initiative](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2850540)
    * (over 1600 contributors credited on this issue!)
* [Last page of commit history](https://www.drupal.org/user/4166/track/code?page=4636)
* [First contribution - contrib](https://www.drupal.org/commitlog/commit/20/34e3c359bc7ae476a471f6c4ab8d0699b33221b5)
    * https://git.drupalcode.org/project/bbcode/-/commit/34e3c35
* First core contributions (drupal.org issues did not yet exist, you would send in a patch via email) found through git log --reverse --grep "Gabor" | less

```
commit 62f939944f9ecdff0cfb84e1eb057237ad3d52ed
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date:   Tue Sep 16 17:35:02 2003 +0000
 
    - Added 'escape HTML' option to the filters.  Patch by Gabor Hojtsy.
 
commit 069e1bb87b9971f160f8ddccfe95335986dd17e0
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date:   Sun Sep 28 17:07:46 2003 +0000
 
    - More translation fixes for the menu items.  Patch by Gabor.
 
commit bcfa6dca1e6646a50f12f617425c6087cae97ac8
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date:   Sun Sep 28 18:23:13 2003 +0000
 
    - Translation improvements for the block module help.  Patch by Gabor.
 
commit 7531e82969cda841d2e03a736c2b0568ed2647e7
Author: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net>
Date:   Mon Sep 29 18:35:46 2003 +0000
 
    - Made sure non US-ASCII mails are sent out properly.  Patch by Gabor.
    
      TODO: rename user_mail() to drupal_mail() and move it to common.inc.
      Other modules, such as the project module, should use this as well
      or they risk to send out /invalid/ mails.

```

## Guests
Gábor Hojtsy - [www.hojtsy.hu](http://www.hojtsy.hu/)
[@gaborhojtsy](https://twitter.com/gaborhojtsy)


## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [www.nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [@nicxvan](https://twitter.com/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [www.epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [@johnpicozzi](https://twitter.com/johnpicozzi)
April Sides - [@weekbeforenext](https://twitter.com/weekbeforenext)

## MOTW
[Views AJAX History](https://www.drupal.org/project/views_ajax_history)
Enable bookmaking of AJAX views. Supports filters and paging.