configuration

Job Description: Drupal Config Specialist/Themer

The Drupal configuration specialist will have a solid understanding of the Drupal Content Management Framework. Listening to our needs you will gather a collection of modules that provide a best fit, and you will work with our developers to provide any customizations that are required. You live online, you thrive in #drupal-support and #drupal-themes. You Blog, Skype, Twitter and Pownce your way through the day to get your points across.

Essential skills.
• General understanding of Drupal 5x core and contrib

Having worked recently on install profiles with the Filmforge project and the install_profile_wizard module, I am becoming less and less confident in their effectiveness. There are three key issues that need to be adressed IMO.

First, install profiles are currently prone to failure when you have different versions of modules. Install profiles should be able to list the version (update) number of each module currently installed, in order to be able to make the necessary updates during the install.

One of my partners, Arthur (arthurf), just posted this to one of our internal lists. Since we were talking about it (how to track configuration changes if you work on a staging site) last night, i figured i would pass it along:

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From: Allie Micka
Date: August 17, 2007 4:09:08 PM EDT
To: development at drupal
Subject: Re: [development] The right way to manage Drupal webiste development

> Michel Levy-Provençal wrote:

>> 2/ When our sites will be online, we will need to continue the
>> development. The only way we found to manage this is to lock param