A group for talking about Drupal distributions.
At DrupalCon Europe 2020, a BoF (Drupal Distributions - Learning from each other - read about the outcomes here) came up with the idea of distribution maintainers meeting and exchanging ideas on a regular basis to learn from each other. In January 2021, the first meeting took place, we collected topics that affect us all and planned the first discussion rounds (read the meeting minutes here).
We want to meet once a month, present our projects to each other, ask questions, discuss possible solutions and thus grow by working together. For planning and sharing purposes, we have adopted this group.
Originally, this group was created as an informal response to Dries' blog entry about potential pitfalls in creating Drupal distribution installation profiles. We still think this is an important topic (of many!) and plan to discuss such questions as well.
The intent of this group is to provide a forum for distribution maintainers to discuss on a very broad scope in the interest of promoting collaboration, cooperation and communication among them. This group is a good place to: announce new projects and the goals behind them, identify common goals and best practices for distributions, and explore options for collaboration and consolidation where possible.
Distributions Sprints & BoFs at DrupalCon Portland!
Join us for some distribution sprinting and birds of a feather sessions at DrupalCon Portland!
BoFs:
Maintainers for Commons & COD will be hosting the following BoFs on Tuesday, May 21:
- COD: 2-3pm
- Commons: 3:15-4:15pm.
Locations TBD and will be announced as a comment on this thread.
Distributions Sprint:
We'll have maintainers of Commons and COD, and hopefully other distributions as well!
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Creating "editor" user during installation
Panopoly provides, by default, an 'editor' role which I find myself using a lot. But using it means I have to guide the site administrator to create a user with the role editor. I thought it could better be handled by providing a form to create that user, next to the form that creates user 1.
And since user 1 usually sees a lot more than the site builder will ever need, I thought I could just finish the installation and log the user as editor.
How do I do that? Also, is it a good idea?
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Demo content for distributions
Hi all,
what would you recommend using to provide demo content for a fairly simple distribution. I would liek to include files (images).
I have seen:
defaultcontent
Deprecated in favor of UUID, it does have the machine name, that you are throwing under nose to your users even if they don't need it.
UUID features
Demo content might not be the best use case, seem to be made for deployment not import.
Migrate
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Drupal Sprints at Linuxfest Northwest
Linuxfest Northwest is coming back for 2013 -- the last weekend in April. After talking to some core maintainers, we thought it'd be a fun idea to do a sprint based around linuxfest northwest.
Sprinters are certainly welcome (and encouraged!) to submit a talk for LFNW, but the main goal is to get some sprinting done on Core in preparation for Drupalcon in May.
I'll also be leading a distros sprint, if people are interested. My main focus is on COD and Commons -- but if there are other distros that would like to host here, feel free.
Why Linuxfest Northwest?
Read moreStrengthening the Open Outreach distribution: a SWOT analysis
Coming from discussion on drupal.org, this wiki page aims to analyze the current status of Open Outreach and generate strategies for improvement via a SWOT analysis and resulting strategies.
What are your thoughts about the strong points and weaknesses of the distribution? What opportunities or threats are out there? What are the most promising strategies for strengthening the distribution? Please add your ideas, either as comments or directly in the wiki!
Read moreDistribution Sprint: SandCamp 2013
Note that the sprint is held at 2 different locations.
Thursday location:
Sage Tree Solutions
752 5th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
Friday-Sat Location:
Which feature based conflicts could be solved by standards or naming conventions?
What kind of standards is needed to make features as compatible as possible:
- module based
- naming conventions
- ???
The usual suspects:
- Strongarm
- Roles
- Permissions
- Text Format
- Content Types
- Taxonomy
Related content
Roles Conflicts comparison :Harmonize app/distro/feature role names
Distro Based Conflict Comparison:Commons 7.x
Related Discussion: Should distro based features be compatible with other distro features?
Would you, as a Feature/Distro developer agree to a standardized feature creation process?
Should distro based features be compatible with other distro features?
Distro Features Conflict Comparison - Commons 7.x based
Standards in features creation process have not been implemented yet.
This post will give you an overview of stoppers within features, ergo not interoperable.
Related content
Roles Conflicts comparison :
Harmonize app/distro/feature component names (roles, vocabularies, and so on)
Related Discussion:
Should distro based features be compatible with other distro features?
Which feature based conflicts could be solved by standards or naming conventions?
Newbie question: Drupal for scheduling courses in a school?
I'm looking for web-based software for a community college to use (internally) to schedule it's courses. Even though it's small it needs to support multiple Deans, 100-150 teachers (some full time, some part time, some not currently teaching but still interested in teaching), and several hundred courses each quarter.
I was wondering if there are modules / distributions set up to do this?
After searching I haven't found anything that's quite targeted at this (the "Conference Organizing Distribution" seems close but not quite right).
Distributions Sprint at BADCamp 2012
If you're a new to contributing to distributions, fear not! This is an opportunity to receive some in-person guidance from distribution maintainers and dig in on development!
One focus of the sprint will be on making progress towards updating Drupal Commons and the Conference Organizing Distribution to Drupal 7.
If you're planning to attend, please sign up to this event and leave a comment saying what you plan to work on!
If you'd like to sprint remotely, sign up here and join us on IRC in #drupal-commons and #drupal-cod channels on Freenode.
Sprint Goals/Suggested tasks:
Read moreHarmonize app/distro/feature component names (roles, vocabularies, and so on)
Incompatible component names are a significant barrier to interoperable features. Component types that tend to be shared between multiple features or apps include: roles, taxonomy vocabularies, text formats, and content types.
The Apps compatible module is one initiative to address incompatibilities by providing a set of generic components and methods to share them between apps.
Read moreDistro Sprint: DrupalCamp Asheville 2012
2012.drupalcampasheville.com
f you're a new to contributing to distributions, fear not! This is an opportunity to receive some in-person guidance from distribution maintainers and dig in on development!
One focus of the sprint will be on making progress towards updating Drupal Commons and the Conference Organizing Distribution to Drupal 7.
If you're planning to attend, please sign up to this event and leave a comment saying what you plan to work on!
If you'd like to sprint remotely, sign up here and join us on IRC in #drupal-commons and #drupal-cod channels on Freenode.
Read moreDistro Sprint: CapitalCamp 2012
Come sprint on your Drupal distribution of choice at Capital Camp!
If you're a new to contributing to distributions, fear not! This is an opportunity to receive some in-person guidance from distribution maintainers and dig in on development!
One focus of the sprint will be on making progress towards updating Drupal Commons and the Conference Organizing Distribution to Drupal 7.
If you're planning to attend, please sign up to this event and leave a comment saying what you plan to work on!
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Creating Drupal distribution - still a hard task
Took me a while to understand I am not going to create any decent distribution for now.
Wrote about it here
Comments and ideas here or there are welcome !
Thanks,
Shushu
Notifications D7 distribution (tentative sprint?) planning
Last updated by christianchristensen on Wed, 2012-04-11 22:06
In an attempt to hammer out all of the blockers for the getting a great notifications implementation into a D7 distribution (such as Commons, Atrium, COD, etc..): here are a list of some aggregated resources in working through decisions to implementation:
Distribution/Install Profiles on Drupal.org
(note: listed immediately below each project is a link to the makefile with the likely notification method for the distro)
Drupal 7
Read moreUsing Drupal Commons distribution as a foundation
Hello everybody.
This is in some way call to arms! ;)
I would like to suggest CSA, Transition towns and other real-world communities and individuals to join forces and resources and help Acquia to build one community Drupal distribution to rule them all. :)
Read moreDrupalCon Denver Distro Sprint: How to help!
This wiki is the place to list ways to get involved in the DrupalCon Denver Distributions sprint on Friday, March 23 from 10am-4pm MT.
Drupal Commons
- Bugs to fix before Commons 2.6
- Provide feedback on the Commons D7 MVP user stories
- Discuss architectural approaches for Commons D7
OpenFit - Fitness tracking website based on a custom Drupal 7 distribution
Our team has been working through the winter on an open source website platform for tracking fitness workout data gathered from GPS watches, heart-rate monitors, cadence/power cycling sensors and swim stroke counters. Our goal is to disrupt the current set of proprietary offerings and accelerate innovation in the fitness arena with a free open source platform.
The platform will eventually include an entire ecosystem of technologies such as:
- A web based fitness tracking site and data repository with data API access
- Mobile phone apps to view and record workouts
