buddylist

I submitted this within the forums, but I don't think it will get the attention it desires... I think this is an important step in development in Drupals Social Networking... Take a look and see if it is something that will draw the attention and the enthusiasm that it deserves. If it is deemed usable, then I will start working on an API.

Over the last few months there has been a number of bug fixes and a few small improvements to the buddylist 1.0 module for Drupal 5. A 1.1 beta version is now available for download and testing.

Download: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/buddylist-5.x-1.1-beta.tar.gz
Release Details: http://drupal.org/node/193564

I have completed the translation to Spanish of the Buddylist v.5.x-1.0 (2007-Jun-27) module and related files and modules (buddylist_views.inc, buddylist.module, buddylist.info, buddylist.install, buddylistautoadd.info, buddylistinvite.info, buddylistautoadd.module, buddylistinvite.module).

Hi,

here we discussed the development of the new buddylist verion: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5233

the current state:
- buddy_api module - API for buddy actions
- buddylist_ui module - User Interface for buddy_api, supporting oneway AND twoway buddymode
- buddy_api_shortestroute module - block to display the shortest route between two given users

I'm glad to announce development of a buddylist 2.x module. Our team needs buddylist's functionality for a project, but decided that buddylist's (1.x) quality is too bad for use in our project and that the effort to fix it wouldn't be worth the trouble. So we'll build buddylist 2.x..

Buddylist 2.x design decisions:

• use views (for now with usernode..) for all buddy listing, so they are
  extensible and customizable
• use workflow-ng for all notifications, which provides e-mail notifications - or whatever you want (just write the appropriate action..)
• to simplify only the buddylist modus with "Confirmed buddies" will be
  supported - no one-way buddy connections
• only implement the basics in the module, other things should be built as add-ons.
  So there will be no buddy-group functionality, or tracker integration (for
  this views can be used nevertheless).
• we have also planned to develop an extension, which shows the shortest
  buddy connection to other people later
• Probably there will be no need for changing the db-scheme. So
  upgrading would be just a matter of replacing the module.

So in short the pros/cons of this design will be:
+ small, stable, performant module
+ good code reusing
- a lot of dependencies (views, usernode, worfklow-ng for notifications)

development will be done by nodestroy

The buddylist module needs some love. I'd like to see it have a 1.0 release in the next week or so. To do that, I want to see this list of issues get some reviews and a lot more testing of the current 5.x-1.x-dev tarball. As you can see here, a number of patches have gone in recently, so the current code needs testing. Thanks for your help with this effort.

I just recognized that there are three modules besides phpfreechat that claim to provide chatting features for a Drupal site. After a quick look at Buddy Chat, Chat Box and Chat Room I wasn't able to understand the differences between those modules.

The buddylist module has been updated for Drupal 5.0. Please test the module and report bugs that you find to the issue queue.

The module is maintained by myself, Wolfgang Ziegler, and Josh Koenig.