Drupal has a lot of areas where we have added a new feature/API etc. which is capable of replacing something else, but that replacement has never happened, leading to two or more, often confusing, ways to do things, or a general level of unevenness across core where legacy and new ways to do things conflict or don't combine well. This goes across site builder features, PHP, theming, JavaScript, docs.
Opening this issue to collect some of the issues trying to address this. While the individual issues don't necessarily have much in common, at lot of them have common themes at a higher level. Also because I'm in the middle of drafting a blog post about this and need an issue to link to.
This doesn't have to be strictly about when there are two ways of doing things in core, it can also cover when finishing a core feature properly would allow it to replace a contributed modules (entity API for example).
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[META] Expose Title and other base fields in Manage Display
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[META] Expose Title and other base fields in Manage Display
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Add the notion of a 'configured layout builder block' to solve a number of content-editor and performance pain points
Active
Add the notion of a 'configured layout builder block' to solve a number of content-editor and performance pain points
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Add access control to /filter/tips
Needs work
Add access control to /filter/tips
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Continuation Add Views EntityReference filter to be available for all entity reference fields
Needs work
Add Views EntityReference filter to be available for all entity reference fields
#1823450: [Meta] Convert core listings to Views →
Convert core listings to views
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[Meta] High-performance images (nearly) out of the box
Active
High performance images out of the box
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Deprecate the Number (float), and List (float) field types and move them to contrib
Active
Move float and list (float) fields to contrib
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Add poster image to HTML5 media videos
Needs work
Add poster image to HTML5 media videos
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Refactor system/base library
Needs work
Refactor system/base library
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Add a native dialog element to deprecate the jQuery UI dialog
Needs work
Native dialog element
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META: Reduce / eliminate “jank” (layout shifts) within Drupal’s admin UI
Active
Eliminate layout shifts / jank in the admin UI
#1804614: [meta] Consolidate similar twig templates and properly use theme suggestions in core →
Consolidate twig templates and use theme suggestions
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Deprecate preprocess variable cruft in core
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Deprecate template variable cruft in core
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[meta] Remove support for IE11
Active
Remove IE11 support
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Update parts of Umami that are falling behind
Closed: outdated
Update parts of Umami that are falling behind
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[PLAN] Drupal CSS Modernization Initiative
Active
Modernize core CSS (native nesting etc.)
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OOP hooks using event dispatcher
Needs review
OOP hooks
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[meta] Convert all core plugin types to attribute discovery
Active
Convert all plugins to attributes from annotations
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Finalize API for creating, overriding, and altering code-defined bundle fields
Needs work
Finalize bundle field API
#2875151: [META] Implement Batch API as a service →
Batch API as a service
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[META] Adopt the symfony mailer component
Needs review
Symfony mailer
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Convert update_calculate_project_update_status() into a class
Needs work
Convert update_calculate_project_update_status() into a class
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XSS attribute filtering is inconsistent and strips valid attributes
Needs work
XSS filter carnage
#2350509: Implement auto-route generation for all core entities and convert all of the core entities. →
Implement auto-route generation for all core entities and convert all of the core entities.
#3238306: [META] Where possible, refactor existing jQuery uses to vanillaJS to reduce jQuery footprint →
Refactor jQuery to use vanilla js
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Replace Contextual Links BackboneJS usage with VanillaJS equivalent
Needs work
Replace backbone with vanilla js
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Add an API for importmaps
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Add an importmaps API
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Create Javascript library for searching rendered lists on the client.
Needs work
Create Javascript library for searching/filtering rendered lists on the client.
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Provide a new library to replace jQuery UI autocomplete
Needs work
Provide a new library to replace jQuery UI autocomplete
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Add a native dialog element to deprecate the jQuery UI dialog
Needs work
replace jQuery UI dialog with native dialog element
#3398293: Consolidate local development environment documentation to recommend DDEV →
Consolidate local development environment documentation to recommend DDEV
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[policy] Decide on format of commit message
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[policy] Decide on format of commit message
Don't want to directly add it to the issue summary, but I immediately thought of #2350509: Implement auto-route generation for all core entities and convert all of the core entities. → when reading this...
No that's a great example! Added.
Current idea is to try to pick a handful of issues in different areas to concentrate on, and see if we can pick them off bugsmash style.
