Drupal 8 module readiness

By mewren on 21 Aug 2013 at 14:55 UTC

I am trying to forecast how long it will be until the modules Drupal 8 will be ready for a technical-savvy development team to start using for a large multilingual multisite project.

(i.e. do we wait or migrate later)

I am thinking probably Fall 2014. I would appreciate hearing your estimates.

From my analysis (as of Aug 21 2013)

18 Themes have a Drupal 8 version
207 of all the modules have a drupal 8 version
Only 40 of the top 500 modules (by usage) have a Drupal 8 version
Only 7 of the top 500 modules have pledged #D8CX - this feels less than we were at with Drupal 7 at this time
Only 39 of all the modules have pledged #D8CX

Comments

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tryitonce commented 21 August 2013 at 16:14

... interesting q. I remember predicting some years back how long it would take for D7 to be ready for "real" projects. I don't think I was far off. This time I am holding my breath, but won't to follow the sages of Drupal ...
Would it not be a good idea in the sense of openness to add some statistics to Drupal.org showing how modules are progressing towards the next release allowing all of us to take a more educated decision about adopting the next release ...
And showing progress statistics will encourage others to work a bit more ....

Let's see ....

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WorldFallz commented 22 August 2013 at 02:37

Be careful about using the d6 to d7 upgrade cycle to extrapolate the d7 to d8 time frame-- the api changes to d8 make the changes of d7 look like child's play. I have a feeling the this transition is going to make the previous one look lightning fast and fully expect many modules to just be outright abandoned, but time will tell.