Automate Drupal 9 upgrades: Addressing deprecated code as a community / DrupalCon Global 2020
About this talk
This talk focuses on using automation tools to prepare custom and contributed code for Drupal 9. The speaker discusses the challenges developers face in manually addressing deprecations in Drupal 8 sites and highlights how automation can streamline the upgrade process and facilitate learning of new systems. They introduce Rector, a tool from the PHP community that automates much of the upgrade work, and explain how Palantir.net is developing Rector for Drupal. Attendees will learn how to utilize this tool effectively, build Rectors, and identify critical deprecated features.
