The good news upfront - the update from Drupal 8 to 9 will be much easier than major point updates in the past!
The even better news? Sector 9 is here now!
Our first Sector 9 release was in March 2021 - read the release notes for more.
Continuous upgrade path
In the past, Drupal updates between major versions have been ... painful. Code needed to be rewritten, content migrated, and structure needed to be rebuilt.
You don't need to constantly churn out content in order to have a blog on your website - as long as you have something useful and interesting to say, and can commit to a regular content schedule, it's a worthwhile venture.
March is off to a speedy start - with our first release of Sector 9 coming earlier this month. As promised in our Sector 9 roadmap, Sector 9 is here and ready for production use!
It's been an odd year, but the Sector team have kept trucking along nonetheless. 2020 may not have been stable, but with the latest release, we can at least say that Sector is!
DrupalSouth is one of the longest running Drupal events in the Asia-Pacific region, and this year it is taking place in Hobart, Australia. Naturally, Sparks Interactive's Sector team is making the trip across the ditch to talk Drupal.
Sector is open source and the Sector Ecosystem is open for contributions. In this post, we share our ideas on how we see an open Sector contribution and governance model working while keeping a strong and maintainable product.
Setting up a website form where people can sign up to receive your exciting email communications? You might be tempted to gain as many email sign-ups as you can - but you should read on and learn why it's best to go with quality over quantity.
Online content and printed content is read by different audiences, with different mindsets, in different contexts. In short - they are not the same thing.