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Remove the XB demo

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Created on 24 January 2025, 3 months ago

In discussion with @catch, @tim.plunkett, and the Experience Builder team, it has been decided that shipping a pre-alpha demo version of Experience Builder with the actual Drupal CMS product is too risky for a number of reasons -- mainly due to the difficulty of upgrading it when it's not merely in development, but very pre-alpha. It's one thing to try out Experience Builder in a sandbox -- we like that, and heartily encourage it -- but it's a whole other ball game to include it with the stable Drupal CMS product. The risks outweigh the benefits.

So, new plan:

  • Remove the Experience Builder demo from the 1.x branch of Drupal CMS.
  • Create a full fork of the project template that does include the Experience Builder demo. This fork includes all the same stuff that Drupal CMS does -- it depends on all of the same recipes. It also includes a recipe that sets up XB in demo mode.
  • Publish this fork to Packagist so that people can use it (composer create-project drupal/drupal-cms-xb-demo or something similar).
  • End-of-life the demo when Drupal CMS 2.0 is released later this year, which will include a stable version Experience Builder and fully adopt it as its native page-building solution!

I like this a lot; I think it's the best of all worlds:

  • People who want to play with Experience Builder early can do just that, with very little fuss. It requires a small amount of technical aptitude (command line), but I think folks who want to try XB at this early phase in its development are very likely to be in that cohort.
  • There is zero additional complexity or maintenance burden added to the main Drupal CMS product.
  • We have nearly infinite flexibility to fine-tune the fork to the needs of the demo.
  • The demo fork has a clear EOL and on-ramp to Drupal CMS.
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