Patterns

Discuss Patterns, work on new Patterns together, suggest ideas and improvements and get help with questions.

http://drupal.org/project/patterns

There is a session proposal for Patterns at Drupalcon 2009: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-patterns-managing-and-automat...

What are Patterns? What is the Patterns module?
The patterns module enables the setup, configuration, and reconfiguration of [Drupal] sites without actually doing any of the setup manually. A pattern will be a collection of rules, definitions, and dependencies, currently in XML, that will automatically setup and create simple or complex features for you. Patterns can be saved and shared easily.

Here are some primary uses:
* Define reusable site architecture patterns and best practices that are easy to update and maintain.
* Quickly setup and configure new (and existing!) sites based on site architecture documents/patterns. (Next evolution of Install Profiles)
* Migrate changes, updates and new features from you local development environment to dev server to QA site to the final production environment. (Change Management)
* Possibility of making a specific pattern to update/change a site(s) from some other known configuration (legacy best practice to current best practice for instance)