Problem

I'm developing drupal-devenv, which builds on devenv to provide Drupal development environments.

I feel the Getting Started process is less than ideal, users have to run devenv init, then edit our repo into their project's inputs and add the corresponding import. If you're new to devenv, this is all a bit opaque and gives a first impression that it requires a lot of boilerplate.

Meanwhile, the competition is ddev, where getting started is ddev config followed by ddev start. While the config step does ask some questions, the whole process is short and streamlined.

Solution

If we could provide a template for use with devenv init, with pre-configured inputs and such, users could get started just as easily as with ddev. For example, the usage might look like:

devenv init --template gitlab:woolwichweb/drupal-devenv

Then users just have to run devenv up to get a fully working Drupal development environment.

Related: #1705