automation
An update on the InDesign Integration Kit for Drupal
Hi all. I've received quite a few queries about how things are going with the InDesign Integration Kit (IIK) package and the Chimp layout automatisation software. I'm happy that so many people are excited about the project and I'd like to give you an update on where we're headed.
(If you don't know what I'm talking about you should probably see the linked post first :-))
(even more) Advanced Cron
I've toyed with this idea for a few months..
A common problem with cron tasks in Drupal is that it is generally an all-or-nothing proposition, either every time you run cron.php the system runs every individual cron task, or (possibly for n00bs) you don't run it at all. Then there's the problem that some tasks need to be ran frequently, e.g. search index refreshing vs tag cloud updates vs RSS feed aggregation vs scheduler updating..
What I propose is rewriting cron.module to allow individual cron tasks be scheduled differently.
There would be three parts to it:
Have you been looking for ways to automate your Drupal installations, configurations, and/or customizations?
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SoC 2007 proposal - Drupal Automated Staging Kit
Hello all,
Sorry for cross-posting; but I think people working on different aspects of Drupal may have interest in this idea.
I've submitted a SoC 2007 Drupal proposal on automating the whole process of creating a complete Drupal site with a LAMP stack in a self-contained virtual machine image. A formatted PDF version is here:
http://www.abeharry.info/SoC2007_DrupalAST_FullProposal.pdf
Here is the abstract:
The Drupal automated staging toolkit is a proposed set of code libraries, file schemas and parsers, and code generators, for
Automatic testing security issues?
One of the biggest concerns about automatic testing is how to prevent potentially dangerous code to cause harm to the server and other tests.
Automation what has been done so far
After some discussions with my mentor Thomas and other people on devel mailling list I have created sort of a first prototype.
How it works
One part of this module is used to catch the patches and submites them to other part of the module via xml-rpc call. The second part receives this call and tests the patch. Results are stored in a new node on test server node address is returend by xml-rpc call response.
