contrib
Contrib Sprint - Newbies!
Here is a bunch of information to get started with if you are planning on attending the contrib sprint this weekend, and consider yourself a non-coder/beginner/newb. If you can get through prepping all of this before the sprint, you will have a head start once you get there, otherwise I will direct people to go through this info when they are getting started.
How can Drupal get great new contrib themes?
The community wants great new themes for Drupal. How do we get designers and themers to create them? Someone discussed a contest but may designers are oppsed to that.
A suggestion: Call for volunteers to participate in a team effort where they will be grouped with others (perhaps 2 designers paired with 2 themers/UI specialists) and have them come up with a team name which will also be the name of their theme.
Give them a deadline and some publicity on d.o. with their bios and photos or portfolio links.
Meeting the user's needs, but not more.
(or how to reduce a module's functionality)
During it's lifetime a contributed module's functionality expands, which often leads to a module packed with features. This growth of features is common for all software, but for Open Source the rate of expansion seems even higher. Feature rich software may be beneficial to the user but it comes at a price. Usability often suffers.
Pluralism Template Ported to Drupal 6 Theme
After walkah's presentation on Drupal 6 Themeing, I ported and contributed a theme to drupal.org. Some really great information that inspired me to contribute a new theme. I did a relatively detailed write up in the showcase forums.
Thanks James, for the great presentation and answering the question we all had.
Handling callback security with contrib ecommerce payment modules..
Hi guys,
I recently updated the worldpay.module for 4.7 and included an automated "callback" after the order is processed...i.e. the worldpay server tells the drupal site that the transaction was either APPROVED or CANCELLED (Denied happens at the worldpay end and the order is cancelled).
So a Drupal site admin who is setting up their worldpay enabled shop, enters in the worldpay_callback the worldpay server sends the "y" or "c" flags to. The problem is securing that transfer of information or in other words, validating the source.
