DDEV October 2024 Newsletter

Happy October from DDEV! I just got back from DrupalCon Barcelona and things are finally starting to cool down here in Palisade, Colorado, USA.

Podcast! Chad Carlson of DDEV Lead Sponsor Platform.sh had me on the Change Mode podcast and we had loads of fun. Learn more about the history of DDEV (and my TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2) on the Change Mode Podcast.

DrupalCon Barcelona: I got to see lots of friends old and new in Barcelona. Four training session BoFs, a full-day contribution mentoring session, and loads of fun. Read about it on ddev.com.

Join us for Contributor Training

• October 9: Supporting people using ddev debug test and other tools
• October 23: **Using Tmate to Debug GitHub Workflows****

GitHub Codespaces is working well with DDEV: We used to add a lot of caveats about Codespaces, but the problems were fixed with a new workaround shown in the DDEV docs say how to do it. Give it a try!

DDEV Notes from around the web:

• Using DDEV in GitLab CI Tests - Jochen Roth sorted out the difficulty and made this available to all. (Note that lots of people use DDEV for automated tests of their websites in GitHub Workflows using the github-action-setup-ddev action.)
• Install Prestashop in DDEV (in Spanish, but Google Translate makes it very accessible).
• CraftCMS Launchpad by prolific contributor @mandrasch. Interactive CraftCMS demos in your browser, powered by DDEV.
• DDEV Vite Sidecar add-on by @s2b. A fresh approach to Vite with DDEV. (See also the authoritative and maintained summary of Vite approaches on ddev.com.)
• WSL2 with DDEV And Drupal on drupal.org: This outstanding and detailed explanation is a gift to anybody using WSL2 and Drupal.
• How We Contributed a Quality of Life Improvement to DDEV by Kevin Quillen. An inspiration for anybody who wants to scratch an itch on DDEV!

DDEV on Windows ARM64 (the Qualcomm Snapdragon Windows Copilot machines you’ve been hearing about.) I bought a Microsoft Surface Laptop on my own dime to see how it would do with DDEV, and it’s great on WSL2, not ready for traditional Windows. The preferred install technique (docker-ce inside WSL2) works fine except that it stumbles installing ddev.exe on the Windows side. I hope to spend some time on the open Windows ARM64 issue before I need to decide whether to send it back or not. Overall, it’s a delightful machine and does great with DDEV.

Add-On Registry funding: We applied to the TYPO3 community’s grant process to fund the initiative to add a web-based DDEV Add-on Registry. Thanks to those of you who voted! We came in 5th and the top 4 projects were funded. This remains a priority though, and we’d love to have your participation and your organization’s participation.

Fully funding Maintainer Stas: Our key financial goal is to fully fund @stasadev so he can work exclusively on DDEV. We’re about 35% of the way to that goal, but have not been making progress on that in recent months. We need about $3000/month in increased pledges from organizations and individuals. See Full information about supporting DDEV. We’re happy to invoice you, happy to do a call discussing this, and would love it if you’d include DDEV in your 2025 budgeting process. (Our current status: We receive about $4000-$5000/month, spend about $6000/month. Bank balance is about $13,000, down from $15,000 last month.)

THANKS to all of you who are supporting DDEV’s path to sustainability and who have gotten your organizations to do so.

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Happy October from Randy Fay, DDEV Project Lead.