Distribution profiles
A group for talking about Drupal distribution profile development groups.
Created as an informal response to Dries' blog entry about potential pitfalls in creating Drupal distribution installation profiles, the intent of this group is to provide a forum for discussing the topic on a very broad scope in the interest of promoting collaboration, cooperation and communication among developers.
This group is a good place to: announce new projects and the goals behind them, identify common goals and best practices for distribution profiles as a whole, explore options for collaboration and consolidation where possible, and collaborate with developers working on unrelated installation profiles in order to present their sum as a consistent experience to the end user.
Usage statistics for distributions
There is a new handbook page, Usage statistics for distributions, fixing an issue on solutions to this problem.
That is, distributions have usage statistics available on drupal.org, and the docs now explain how, thanks to dww.
Distributions Summit in San Diego
We had a very productive Distro Summit at SANDcamp this week https://www.sandcamp.org/drupal-distribution-summit There was an excellent dialog on both technical and business topics. There was distro maintainer representation from Acquia, Phase2, LevelTen, Four Kitchens, ChapterThree, ImageX, Lullabot and many others. There were 46 attendees who engaged in a full day discussion on various topics. We will be holding another Distro Summit later this year. I am writing a summary and resource document for distro maintainers and the community. It should be available within two weeks.
Configuration Management initiative and Drupal distributions
What considerations need to be addressed to ensure the Configuration Management Initiative is informed by and reflects the needs of Drupal distributions?
The Configuration Management Initiative tackles problems that are distinct from but overlap with what's done in Drupal 7 with the Features module, the tool of choice for producing distributions. Features allows capturing bundles of configuration and deploying them in a form that can be reproduced on multiple sites.
[ANN] MongoDrop: A simple distribution that uses MongoDB
I created a simple distro to play with MongoDB. Introducing MongoDrop
It uses the features for blocks, cache, field storage, and sessions.
I found problems with mongodb_watchdog that I couldn't figure out right away. I haven't looked at mongodb_queue yet.
Let me know what you think :)
Starter Drupal Distribution beta launched
Wanted to tell everyone I've just launched the beta of Starter Drupal distribution. Suggestions and comments, are all welcome.
Distributions Summit in San Diego
I wanted to get a more detailed agenda to everyone for the Distro Summit we are holding in San Diego on January 25th. It will proceed SANDcamp and be held at the Omni Hotel. We will have lunch and evening cocktails provided. I spent some time with Angie this week and we feel there is great value in addressing both the business model/needs of the distro community and also the technical requirements/optimization.
Distro Sprint at DrupalCon Denver
Join us at DrupalCon Denver to sprint on Drupal distributions and the tools used to build them, such as Drush and Drush make.
This sprint is an opportunity for anyone involved in a Drupal distribution to do work on that distribution such as filing patches or working on UX enhancements or documentation.
If you're planning to attend, feel free to leave a comment stating which distribution(s) you plan to work on!
Create a distribution listing on Drupal.org and more widely feature distributions
Hey, folks! I'm currently working on an issue over at http://drupal.org/node/1314124 to create a separation between distributions (products) and installation profiles (quickstart), create a list distributions, and add some more prominent language to the home page and download pages about distributions to promote them as one of Drupal's key strengths.
Open Enterprise distro beta launch for D7
Wanted to let anyone interested know that we just launched the Open Enterprise distribution for Drupal 7 into beta. It has come a long way since the distro (iSite Essentials) we launched back in 2008. I would love to get any thoughts or input.
We reworked the distro for D7 to include a streamlined base installation of essential modules and site building that are popular in most sites. We leverage Apps to install more advanced optional features like blogs, job board, rotating banner, etc.
What is Octopus video? (Drupal distribution for social video)
You can have a look and try it out the distribution by below links.
Official site : www.octopusvideo.org
Demo site : demo.octopusvideo.org
What is Octopus video?
Video Distribution for Drupal 7
We have released a Drupal distribution which is for hosting and delivering video contents. You can have a look and try it out.
Official site : www.octopusvideo.org
Demo site : demo.octopusvideo.org
Distributions Code Sprint @ BADCamp
Join us at BADCamp 2011 to sprint on Drupal distributions and the tools used to build them, such as Drush make.
We'll be starting in the chx Coder Lounge, but of course coding can continue 24/7 through the camp (and afterwards)!
Sign up and leave a comment if you'd like to share what you plan to work on!
We announce the first version of botafoc.cat
botafoc.cat is the beginning of a project to be focused on making a distribution of drupal simple, base and complete.
This distribution was created with the idea of not repeating the typical configurations that are each installed drupal (activation and configuration of modules). This includes the typical modules are installed at all sites with drupal ( views, pathauto, etc...). This allows us to save some time.
Design Initiative - Design Brief Proposal
Over the past months we've had many discussions here in the d4d group, at various Drupal camps, IRC and in the issue queues. I have kept notes and references to most of these discussions and based on those prepared a proposed design brief for the design initiative. It would be good if someone can enable comments on this wiki page, so we can discuss this and make changes etc to the brief. This is my initial idea - what is missing is a link to a demo site (I am setting that up today, I have a pretty good boilerplate site thats a good starting point).
Pushtape Testing, Development & Workflow
I just wanted to create a discussion stub here for those interested in following pushtape developments. I'll be updating this post with my progress for now. This is probably the best place to ask questions.
Test site - Updated 9/26/2011
Login with demo/demo. Content gets cleared out periodically.
http://test.pushtape.gotpantheon.com/user
Modules installed:
ctools
devel
features
filefield_sources
pathauto
pushtape
references
token
views
Themes:
pushtape theme
seven (for administration)
Tasks:
[x] Create track content type
Anyone interested in helping hack on a new helpdesk distro?
While working on a project for the Palmetto Technology Hub, a couple folks from #CHSDUG and I found there are no great open source helpdesk systems. I've tried Storm and Casetracker, and they're too basic. Support Ticketing System logs notes as comments, so we lose the internal/external split and easy access control. osTicket is what we currently use at the Tech Hub and it's pretty mediocre. Most other open source options haven't been updated in 2 years or longer. All the proprietary options that are halfway decent are expensive.
Proposal: Add "Distributions" as a separate project type than "Install profiles"
I wrote up a proposal at http://drupal.org/node/1205640 to make distributions (polished Drupal products) a separate concept than installation profiles (Drupal + some starter code) on the Drupal.org site.
A big problem with distributions taking off is their utter lack of visibility, so this might be one approach.
Please chime in on that issue if you have thoughts! :) (Comments turned off here to keep discussion in one place).
Materials exchange site feature set/install profile
In the lead-up to DrupalCamp NYC9, I mentioned the idea of creating a materials exchange site, similar (but superior) to http://www.wastematch.org.
I'm still interested in doing this. It seems like a very manageable proposition, and has the potential to foster connection with the city & promote FOSS use in municipal government.
Installation Profiles Are Hurting Our Image
People new to Drupal come to drupal.org and click on Get Started with Drupal. In
step one they can read:
Installation Profiles
Drupal Installation profiles are pre-packaged website solutions for specific use cases.
They include Drupal core as well as additional modules.
More Drupal 7 installation profiles will become available in the near future.
If that is the route they are interested in they will soon feel that Drupal is a broken mess when they
can't find an Installation Profile with a release in the last 3 months.
VozMob Drupal Distro 0.5.1 released
Hi all, I'm happy to announce that VozMob Drupal Distro (VozMobDD) version 0.5.1 has been released. VozMobDD is Drupal customized as a widely accessible mobile blogging platform. VozMobDD has been designed to make it easy to post content to Drupal from regular mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, or MMS.
