Code maintenance process
One of the technical and more frequent types of maintenance is around code updates. The community is already making efforts to lessen the technical burden of code updates through the Automatic Updates initiative worked on throughout Drupal 10 and, hopefully, in preparation for Drupal 11.
Reviewing code management and deployment concepts
Earlier chapters covered useful concepts when considering maintenance. A brief review of these concepts is important when considering code maintenance.
Chapter 6 covered the creation of a Drupal application through the Composer project template and common Composer commands. Every Drupal 10 application should have a corresponding and accurate composer.json and composer.lock file. Those files help understand what code is currently built in an application and which constraints the update logic should follow for installed projects.
Chapter 3 covered the concept of environments and code deployment workflows. Production...
