66% speed boost in Drupal CMS installer
I collaborated with Adam Globus-Hoenich (phenaproxima) on Slack today to fix slowness in the Drupal CMS installer. The main issue was that without selecting any add-ons, the installer ran 172 batch jobs. If you chose all the add-ons, it ran 595 batch jobs. After we discussed it, Adam found that 66% of the batch jobs were duplicates. Adam posted a fix, I confirmed that it worked, and he committed it.
Drupal Forge will soon be releasing a Drupal CMS installer that makes installation nearly instantaneous. We are eager to contribute all our enhancements to the Drupal CMS project. If you want to see our other contributions to Drupal CMS install speed, please review these issues: