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I just thought I post a little information about a presentation I am going to be giving at the October meetup. At the last meetup, I was asked if I would mind giving a presentation on the use of GitHub in managing Drupal projects. We have pretty much switched all of our development versioning to Git at CollectiveColors.com, because it has shown to have significant benefits in our own development processes.

Git makes it easier for us because:

1. It allows us to better collaboratively develop our software while minimizing the impact of code conflicts.
2. Allows us to easily track what we have developed.
3. Branching and merging of repositories is a breeze.
4. It is very easy to turn any directory tree into a Git repository.
5. Git submodules are perfect for Drupal development.

We have learned a lot of really cool methods for managing software projects using Git and GitHub, so we figured that we would share some of what we have learned in our journey so far. Although, I have a rough outline of what I want to talk about during this presentation, I am open to hearing your suggestions, after all I'm not presenting to myself.

So what I am thinking so far? ...

Kevin and crew--

At OMPCamp in Portland we started (but did not conclude) a discussion about running / installing Drupal from the CVS repositories. I was under the impression that installing Drupal from CVS made updating and patching the system significantly easier. My takeaway on the conversation was that it wasn't as great an idea as I'd been led to believe.

Can you share your thoughts more completely on this idea? Is there a price to be paid for that convenience? Is it okay for other systems, just not OMP? Did I totally misread the (brief) discussion?

Thanks!

I am in the early stages of developing a group of modules that will be inter-dependent and will ship as a single downloadable project. This has got me thinking about avoiding module namespace conflicts for submodules that ship as part of other module packages.

Si todavía no se han enterado, Marco Villegas (@marvil07) está participando en Google Summer of Code 2009 (GSOC), vean el anuncio oficial y en su blog.
Y hoy acaban de aprobar la cuenta CVS de Franco Cedillo (@AdagioParaCuerdas), eso significa que ya tenemos maintainer para el release D6 del módulo Dokeos.

As a student representing my college, I am organizing an online quiz on open source for a group of five colleges on 18 April 2009 which has more than 100 questions. I was lazy to upload question manually one by one so i wrote a quiz_questions_import script based on this article http://acquia.com/blog/migrating-drupal-way-part-i-creating-node. Bulk question import is a something often often asked feature in quiz issue queue so like to share this script with you guys here.

quiz_questions_import.php


<?php
require 'includes/bootstrap.inc';

Hey there fellow Drupaleros,

I'm seeking peer review of my video about my CVS/SVN workflow regarding deployment for a multisite setup. I'd learned about vendor branching and svn:externals a few months ago and finally got around to setting up a system I was happy with.

What I'm wondering is if I could do anything better or how other people are doing similar things, but slightly different.

All feedback is welcome, leave comments on the site or email me via gdo.

When I gained cvs access, I read the drupal book pages on cvs and also merlinofchaos blog, and polled irc drupal-support.

What I came up with was that there are 2 ways of maintaining releases for contributed modules.

1) Always have the latest code in head, and only release a branch when the new version of drupal comes out. For example when working with module and it is for drupal5 the code is found under HEAD, when the module is upgraded for drupal6, create a branch DRUPAL-5 for the drupal5 module.

Hello,

I am working on a base-theme yui-grids-framework.
First of all: there is such a project on D.o. already, but that one is a) dead, and b) suffering from the same thing I want to solve.

YUI grids is dristributed under BSD. From my tiny bit of legal knowledge, I recall that BSD can be relicenced as GPL.
In that case, I can simply do so, and then upload the results to Drupal.org CVS.

I have gone to meetups asking this question, asked on IRC, and tried stuff on my own, without success. Maybe Drupalchix can help.

In essence, I need to be able to routinely grep all Drupal 5 contributed modules. So, naturally, I wanted to download them all (because I haven't found another way to grep them all).

The following command unfortunately gets me a slew of things with info files containing "core = 6.x"

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d DRUPAL-5 contributions

Hey All,

I created a Userstyle for http://cvs.drupal.org with Firefox (and the Stylish plugin), and I wanted to share it with the community. If you're interested, you can download/install it here: http://userstyles.org/styles/9338. Before and after screenshots are also attached.

For those who don't know what "Stlyish" is, it's a Firefox plugin that allows you to change the appearance of any website/page, by overriding the CSS. You can download it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Enjoy :)
Jacine