Two weeks ago, the Tour module got committed to Drupal 8 core. With that commit a whole new exciting world of step by step tutorials and documentation opened up. At Drupalcamp London on the codesprint I worked with Heather James, Antje Lorch and Lee Hunter on a draft work plan for the Documentation sprint at the Drupal Dev Days in Dublin. At that discussion I've committed to adding an export function to WalkHub that generates YAML files for Tour module, if we reach our funding goal for Walkthrough.it. This should make it really fun and easy to create tours for Drupal 8 core and contrib. Last Saturday I organized a call to talk about Tour module and how the Walkthrough project could be made a 100% compatible with Tour in core. The recording of that meeting is available online, I've also included a summary of the talk with links to the individual topics we discussed below, that way you can jump right into the parts you are most interested in without having to listen to the whole conversation.
- Introductions
- walkthrough.it Sandbox projects
- Tour currently working on (UI & YAML)
- Local storage
- Multi-page tours
- Forked tours (choose your own adventure)
- Prerequisites validation (conditions API)
- Drupal 7 or 8
- Walkthrough.it architecture (Selenium)
- Selenium actions (default values and play)
- Collaborating on local storage
- Drupal 7 vs 8 revisited (making sure we have full compatibility before code freeze)
- What we would like to work on: Tour UI module, JS recording
- WYSIWYG UI
- Communication strategy for our collaboration, code sprint work?
- JS editor or just record?
- Remote vs local storage
- Edit button for adding description - make UI nicer
- UI for changing the highlighted element
- Verifying that Selenium actions will work in Tour
- What do we need to verify?
- Walkthrough.it Server API
- Walkthrough API roadmap
- UX
- Collaboration process and tools
- Drupalcon Portland - core session
In the recording you can see from left to right:
- Attila Cs. Nagy who developed the Selenium parser for WalkHub and who also worked on Stepwise a Drupal specific project very similar to Walkthrough.it
- Kristof Van Tomme, that's me
- Lee Rowlands from PreviousNext who recently published the documentation for the Tour module on their company blog
- Robert Kovacs who has done some initial work on the Walkthrough Drupal client
- Tamas Demeter who was the lead developer on the iPad prototype of Walkthrough and who designed the API.
- Theodore Biadala from Acquia, who was helping out on the code sprint weekend and who is interested in contributing to the project
- Unfortunately Nick Schuch, who's been driving a lot of the development of the Tour module, couldn't make it.
