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govCMS Drupal ACT Meetup

Explore the insights into govCMS, Australian Government's managed Drupal service, covering adoption, eligibility, team roles, maintenance, roadmap, community contributions, vendor insights, codebase restrictions, and permissions. Learn how agencies can benefit and contribute.

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govCMS Drupal ACT Meetup

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  1. govCMSDrupal ACT Meetup December 2016

  2. IntroductionsHello from govCMS

  3. HELLO! • Nathan WallHead of govCMS • Adam LeayrTechnical Product Manager • We both work in the Online Services Branch and the Department of Finance

  4. Questions • We’ve got a great list of questions from the most recent meetup – we will walk through these • Don’t hold back – let’s keep it informal – so ask questions as we go along

  5. About govCMS • govCMS is a service created by government, managed by government, for government • We’ve been running for just over 2 years – uptake is exceeding expectations • We’re passionate about what we do, and we know we cannot succeed without the Drupal community, and that means all of you…

  6. What do we mean by Whole of Australian Government? Who can use govCMS hosting? Organisations eligible to use the govCMS hosting service State and Territory Governments may opt in. Corporate Entities / Government Companies Non Corporate Entities* Use of govCMS is optional Others approved by Finance may opt in. Use of govCMS is optional *Defined by the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth).

  7. We’re big fans of open source, so… Who can use the govCMS distro? ANYONE THAT WANTS TO

  8. Current uptake of govCMS • As at December 2016, govCMS has: • 108 sites live on the service • 28 sites in development • 52 agencies signed up • Of the total live sites: • X are SaaS, Y are PaaS • The is growing interest from State and Local Government departments, agencies and organisations

  9. You asked us:What’s the role of the govCMS team?

  10. What the govCMS looks after

  11. The role of the govCMS team

  12. The role of the govCMS team We manage the contract with Acquia

  13. The role of the govCMS team We manage the distro and the SaaS environment

  14. The role of the govCMS team We resell Acquia Cloud hosting

  15. The role of the govCMS team We contract Acquia services for agencies

  16. The role of the govCMS team We provide support and advice to agencies

  17. The role of the govCMS team We partner with other agencies. We report to Department of Finance, the Minister and the Government of the day.

  18. Maintaining the distro • The Finance/govCMS team ‘owns’ the official govCMS distribution • It’s on GitHub - https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS • Acquia as our contracted service provider helps us manage the issue queue • We run a weekly CAB to assess and implement updates/fixes/new features

  19. You asked us:What’s the roadmap for govCMS?

  20. How can the community contribute?

  21. Community contributions • Are VERY welcome! • Bug fixes, performance and stability enhancements, new functionality on existing modules, suggestions for new modules and features • Hit us up on the issue queue https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS/issues • Or raise a PR https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS/pulls

  22. Contribute to or start a discussion on Github or our community forum if you have a pain point. • community.govcms.gov.au Can we help make it better? DON’T BE SHY

  23. You asked us:Who are the govCMS vendors and what are their roles?

  24. How does an agency build their site? This is now…

  25. How does an agency build their site? From early 2017

  26. About the TendergovCMS Drupal Services Panel

  27. RFT Timetable

  28. Relies on knowing requirements in details and run a procurement from scratch Which approach is right? • A lot of the procurement work done for you • Direct sourcing for smaller projects • Easy to access but smaller pool of suppliers • Great for small builds where agency has no in house skills We advise and inform We don’t mandate • Better suited to large highly skilled digital teams

  29. You asked us:Why are there restrictions on the codebase and site permissions?

  30. Module or Theme?

  31. Modules or Themes? • While best practice is to achieve some results via modules, because we run a managed service we can’t support the SaaS environment unless we control the shared codebase • We are aware of creative solutions being performed in themes to extend functionality, and for the most part, we don’t mind. • We can, and do review theme code via a number of processes, such as initial ‘forklifts’ to load websites into the platform.

  32. Modules or Themes? • Drupal obviously supports modules per-site, however, the hosting environment doesn’t support this currently. • We’re always working with our partner, Acquia, and feeding into their product roadmap. • If that changed in future, we would review the implications from our security accreditation and usability perspectives, and consult our customers to determine the right approach.

  33. Why we don’t give certain permissions to end users

  34. Granting permissions… • There are some permission items in Drupal (such as administer site configuration) that give a large amount of permissions and aren’t particularly granular. • There are some really useful items we would love to give out (such as Regional Date/Time settings), they require that permission item to be selected, which grants other permissions such as logging, cron, flood control and password policy settings.

  35. Granting permissions… • Giving high-level admin permissions to customers would impact the security accreditation of the Software-as-a-Service platform. • We’re constantly looking for ways to give out more permissions to customers and lower our own support overhead. • We’re not about control, trying to strike a fair balance we’ve made a number of improvements in recent times, including module_permissions

  36. Granting permissions… • Currently, module_permissionsis off by default and can be requested to be turned on, but in a subsequent version of govCMS, this will be turned on by default. • We welcome code contributions from the community surrounding splitting permissions into more granular items that would again, allow us to offer more functionality to customers.

  37. You asked us:What’s the process for adding a module to govCMS?

  38. Adding modules to govCMS • On PaaS – do whatever you like – but do tell us about cool code so we can share it • On SaaS – the story is a bit different • We encourage the community not to ask for modules, but rather explain their requirements. • Often we actually have functionality available already that achieves the same or similar results. • If the functionality does not currently exist, and it is not simply a niche item, suggestions will be taken on board and a collaborative decision taken by both the govCMS team at the Department of Finance and the community.

  39. We try and be as flexible as possible, so… • Unless you want a proprietary module or connector, in which case, it might be, no, sorry, please use your theme. Adding a module to SaaS? GENERALLY WE WILL SAY ‘YES’

  40. You asked us:What are the benefits of govCMS?

  41. The main benefits • Open source – build once, reuse with no licence fees, wide technical support base • Transferable skills within government • Shared IRAP Assessment • Scalable, managed environments • Easy and cost efficient procurement • Community collaboration and sharing

  42. govcms@finance.gov.au Questions

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