LinkIt Release Roadmap and Issue Prioritization

With D10 already out I would suggest focusing on a small goal for the first 6.0.0 stable release and to build on it in future releases, rather than trying to cram everything in. To that end, you might make the May release a release candidate rather another beta release.

After D10 / CKeditor5 I think the most important open feature #2712951 - Linkit for Link field ✨ Linkit for Link field Fixed .

~ 200 followers and ~ 50 have contributed code, showing that there is a huge interest. I know that it is a fairly large MR, and has some minor issues. But it also is a completely optional feature, as site admins have to manually select the corresponding field widgets. So even if it is not yet 100% polished, it is definitly mature enough for production use.

Linkit already is in a pretty good state. For me personally a tagged, non-dev release including #2712951 is more important than bugfixing some weird edge cases.

What #5 said: we have been using that on many production sites for years. that issue also overlaps with a lot of related issues in regards to labels, multilingual paths and so on. It likely also conflicts with the ckeditor5 issue I expect, so will need to be updated then.

Thank you for taking on maintainership!

Agreed with #5 and #6 on the next priority after D10 compatibility.

Epic work on taking over maintainership of this project, @mark_fullmer! 😄👏

For folks following this issue, here's a release update:

On 9 April 2023, I plan to simultaneously release 6.0.0-rc1 and 6.1.0-rc1. These two releases address a major version change in CKEditor 5 introduced in Drupal core 10.1.x. See 📌 LinkIt requires new minor version for Drupal 10.1.x, since CKEditor 5 got a major version update (v35 → v36) Fixed

1. Linkit 6.0.0-rc1 will be compatible with the version of CKEditor in Drupal 10.0.x, and will explicitly declare its incompatibility with Drupal 10.1.x.
2. Linkit 6.1.0-rc1 will be compatible with the version of CKEditor in Drupal 10.1.x, and will explicitly declare its incompatibility with Drupal versions lower than 10.1.x.

Sites using Drupal 10.0.x should update to 6.0.0-rc1, which will ensure that their Composer dependencies prevent a scenario of updating to Drupal 10.1 with an incompatible version of Linkit.

Otherwise, both releases will include the following changes:

• ✨ Linkit for Link field Fixed
• 🐛 Linkit Link field: File entities not processed like other entities, resulting in double-encoding Fixed
• 🐛 LinkitFilterEntityTest::testFilterEntityTranslations() does not test what it appears to test Fixed
• ✨ File is inserted with absolute URL Fixed
• 📌 Use null coalesce operator instead of ternary operator. Fixed
• 🐛 Linkit field widget expands to 100% of page width Fixed
• 🐛 Add test coverage for rel and target settings Fixed

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.