Drupal 7
Drupal 7 core forum module - plan of attack
Drupal's core forum module is much maligned. Some of this is unjustified - people expecting it to replace standalone solutions by itself and ignoring the nature of Drupal's modular framework. However, it also has some limitations which are a result of its age and require many workarounds for large community sites.
Many of the forum module's limitations are down to its dependency on the taxonomy module (making it hard to integrate with organic groups etc.) and on comment.module, which is itself in need of a rewrite.
So we're proposing a ground up rewrite of forum.module using nodes.
Find a Better Name for "skip-navigation" Class
We need to come up with a good name for a CSS class, but I don't want this discussion to clutter up the issue queue. (Let's reserve the queue for presenting and discussing patches that fix functional or programmatic problems.) So I'm posting this item to see if we can develop an idea that is better than the ones we've already come up with.
Anybody out there who can help with JQuery to make Drupal 7 accessible?
Mike Gifford (mgifford) and Everett Zufelt are addressing a major accessibility issue for the administration interface of Drupal 7. If they had help from someone with JQuery skills, they could make significant progress. If you think you can help, check out http://drupal.org/node/467296.
Drupal 7?
Is Station being updated for Drupal 7, or even available for 6.x yet? It's currently marked as "Drupal 4.7.x · Drupal 5.x" on the Handbook page.
Thanks!
Schedule next D7 doc IRC meeting
At the Drupal 7 docs IRC meeting on July 10, we decided to have bi-weekly meetings to keep D7 docs on track. We will meet in #drupal-docs on Freenode for one hour. The Doodle to voice your date/time preferences is at http://www.doodle.com/zd4rn6mkdmc7friw
Drupal core patches and Vertical tabs
There are many Drupal 7 core issues that are tagged as "Needs usability review". It would be awesome to try and keep an eye on this list and review UI changes that are going in to core/7, with the aim of trying not to degrade Drupal usability further with un-monitored changes, as we usually do in Drupal core. The most important ones to review are the ones that are in the review process, marked RTBC or recently committed.
Testing PostgreSQL 8.3 against HEAD
Is anyone running test on HEAD, until PostgreSQL testbeds are implemented we still need to ensure peoples are commiting broken code to HEAD that passes on MySQL. Can we get some kind of movement going to keep the testing up??
Proposal for D7 input format system
Through building and maintaining the Better Formats module I have gained insight in many different ways that I and others would like Drupal's input format system to work. There are 2 key points that make the current system in need of help.
- Every site has different needs and use cases.
- Current format system is not extensible.
There are 3 categories of features that site admins need to be able to control.
- Allowed formats
- Default formats
- Display options
Simple object CRUD: a proposal
With Drupal 6, menu tokens are able to automatically load database records given an object id, this is a great feature, however this requires developers to implement 'load functions' for loading their records. Those 'load functions' are often just a wrapper around 'SELECT * from {mytable} WHERE mykey = %d'.
We could do better, and allow automatically load operations, and even better, enable automatic basic CRUD.
Improving color.module for Drupal 7
The drupal color module, if utilized, is one of the most powerful modules in a theme developer's arsenal for extending their design. I feel that this module deserves attention and has the potential to expand.
As a drupal themer who has experimented with color themes and the color.module internals I have bumped into things that would really improve the coloring experience and the module's power/usefulness.
