Maintenance

This project is here to help maintain Drupal & Composer projects by providing common tools for cleaning up codebases.

I go through the same 10-20 steps on every project I get to bring it up to speed. There must be a way to get my life back.

• @jonpugh

Features

1. Provides generic documentation for maintaining composer projects.
2. Provides boilerplate code for reference, such as common composer.json configs.

TODO:

3. Provide composer command for executing a list of checks on a project.
4. Provide automation to fix things where possible.

Site Maintenance Checklists

This file will document the tasks needed to get a site into a supportable state.

This will help provide a roadmap for tools to make this process easier.

Composer

1. Composer Quality

   1. Relevant Project metadata. Remove templated name, description, support, etc.
      • [] Add specific items and examples.
   2. Update config & extras to match relevant upstream composer project template:'
      • @TODO: List common projects here
   3. Remove vendor and contributed files.
   4. Ensure .gitignores are in place.
   5. Ensure composer install does not cause any git changes.

2. Composer Updates

   1. Update locked dependencies. rm composer.lock && composer i
   2. composer require as many libraries as possible to get latest required version.
   3. composer remove libraries that are required by drupal/vardot_support.
   4. Remove all patches that do not apply unless required.

3. Support Package

   1. Move all dependencies to drupal/vardot_support. Remove them from parent project to avoid conflicts or accidentally setting a lower version.
   2. composer require will silently require a lessor version if your project dependencies are set. For example, if drupal/raven or drupal/site_audit are already installed at a certain version, drupal/vardot_support:^1.0@dev will be used instead of ^1.1@dev..
   3. To find out why a module is requiring the wrong version, try requiring the right one: composer require drupal/vardot_support:^1.1@dev. If it fails, composer will tell you why.

4. Documentation & README

   1. Define README requirements: 2. Project summary. 3. Environments 4. Teams 5. Assets 6. Management 7. etc.
   2. Replace default README files with relevant project metadata.
      • Find or create a README generator that can use composer.json metadata.
   3. Create template README file to ensure completeness.

5. Settings.php

   1. @TODO: Come up with a standardization plan.

6. Drupal

   1. @TODO: Define best practices/quality for Drupal level.