Distributions

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.

Materials exchange site feature set/install profile

Posted by LP on June 23, 2011 at 8:19pm

In the lead-up to DrupalCamp NYC9, I mentioned the idea of creating a materials exchange site, similar (but superior) to http://www.wastematch.org.

I'm still interested in doing this. It seems like a very manageable proposition, and has the potential to foster connection with the city & promote FOSS use in municipal government.

Installation Profiles Are Hurting Our Image

Posted by mermentau on May 25, 2011 at 4:06pm

People new to Drupal come to drupal.org and click on Get Started with Drupal. In
step one they can read:

Installation Profiles

Drupal Installation profiles are pre-packaged website solutions for specific use cases.
They include Drupal core as well as additional modules.
More Drupal 7 installation profiles will become available in the near future.

If that is the route they are interested in they will soon feel that Drupal is a broken mess when they
can't find an Installation Profile with a release in the last 3 months.

VozMob Drupal Distro 0.5.1 released

Posted by schock on May 3, 2011 at 9:28pm

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that VozMob Drupal Distro (VozMobDD) version 0.5.1 has been released. VozMobDD is Drupal customized as a widely accessible mobile blogging platform. VozMobDD has been designed to make it easy to post content to Drupal from regular mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, or MMS.

eRecruiter Beta 1

Posted by klausi on March 18, 2011 at 10:47am

eRecruiter is a new Drupal 7 distribution for building e-recruitment sites developed by epiqo. Beta 1 has been released recently which comes with features for publishing job classifieds, applicant profiles and an advanced faceted search. Read more about the technical details on epiqo.com. A demo site has also been created: drupaljobs.epiqo.com.

Security updates and profiles/distributions (especially those hosted outside of d.o)

Posted by greggles on February 18, 2011 at 6:21pm

What tools or processes should we follow for profiles that are hosted off drupal.org when they need to be updated for security reasons.

Currently, all of the modules they use that are hosted on drupal.org will get proper security updates but this could be confusing to the end user (if the profile itself hasn't been upgraded to that module).

What about modules that are hosted elsewhere?

What if the download file is only available from other sites and not packaged on drupal.org?

Drupal 7 Distributions

Posted by drupal a11y on February 7, 2011 at 12:55pm

Did I forget anything?

Please check: http://www.drupal-rocks.com/Drupal-Tutorials-and-News/drupal-news-select...

Thanks !!!

Conference Organizing Distro (COD) Support Hour--in the Drupal Dojo G2m - Nov 11 2010

Posted by eric_sea on November 10, 2010 at 10:49pm

Start:

2010-11-11 11:00 - 12:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

ezra-g

eric_sea

Event type:

User group meeting

The Conference Organizing Distro Support Hour - Nov 11 2010
(cross post from http://groups.drupal.org/node/105194)

Topics Include: What's New in COD Alpha 2
Hosted by ezra-g

Chat to be held in the COD IRC room: #drupal-cod
AND
In the Drupal Dojo's GoToMeeting space: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/384253568

OpenPublish 2.3 RC1 Is Available for Download

Posted by irakli on October 28, 2010 at 7:10am

OpenPublish 2.3RC1 is now available for download: http://openpublishapp.com/download

This release includes:

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A new editorial workflow system

Rules integration

Facebook "Like" integration

Improved digital assets managements

DocumentCloud integration

Integration with an in-stream advertising network

Editors’ Choice

Improved and streamlined RSS export

Need a bit of a How-To

Posted by topdillon on October 22, 2010 at 1:48pm

I am only going to apologize once, and this is it. I am sorry for being a noobie to Drupal and LAMP and Aegir. Done. I am excited about using installation profiles, generating them and using them. I cannot quite understand how to create one. I would like to learn using my first play/learn/test drupal site. Being new to PHP and Drupal, but familiar with ASP and VBA (sorry about that too.), I think I should manage if I can just get a leg up.

Has Install Profile API been deprecated?

Posted by barraponto on October 9, 2010 at 1:09am

I see the latest release of Install Profile API is from 2009, the issue queue is frozen for months...
Is the module deprecated? If it is, indeed, has it been deprecated in favor of something else?

multi page install profile woes

Posted by frob on October 8, 2010 at 9:19am

Hello All,

I have been using install profiles for a while now, but I have never used a multi page, form, wizard style install profile. I was hoping to make something more generic that I use to build sites more quickly. Up till now I have just been reusing the same one over and over and rewriting the parts that do go from site to site.

So to do this I followed the guide in Pro Drupal Development's install profiles chapter and found that it doesn't work. The submit functions are never called. I even downloaded the books source and ran that and it doesn't work either.

VoiceBox Alpha Release

Posted by bonobo on September 29, 2010 at 6:31pm

Hello, all,

We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -

The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:

Customizable user profiles;
Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
Content aggregation via rss;

Small Core / Drupal Distro

Posted by philbar on September 17, 2010 at 4:41pm

What are your thoughts on this issue? A step in the right direction or a recipe for disaster?

http://drupal.org/node/908022

3rd Party Libraries in Distributions on drupal.org

Posted by philbar on September 9, 2010 at 10:31pm

Let's knock these issues out so we can have awesome distribution on d.o by the time Drupal 7 is released.

BrainStorming about how Drupal is able to "compete" with community product usable out of the box

Posted by JBI on August 21, 2010 at 12:29am

Start:

2010-08-25 17:15 - 18:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Event type:

User group meeting

Community products usable out of the box : How is Drupal able to "compete"?
BrainStorming session Monday 3:00 to 4:00 pm Copenhagen time, Register at http://groups.drupal.org/node/88459)

Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
(Edit 20100822) http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1

There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.

Soliciting feedback for graphical Drupal promo video

Posted by patcon on August 19, 2010 at 10:11pm

Sorry if someone thinks I'm cross-posting too much, but I just wanted to get opinions from everyone who might have a stake in this :)

Alright, so I'm trying to think how I can do my part for this little community, and since I've got some degree of proficiency with Adobe Premiere and After Effects, I thought I might be able to put together a little video to explain exactly what Drupal is. I'm envisioning something with a catchy beat, and graphic/text elements -- no voice-overs. I'm in the really early stages of thinking about this, but I'm considering this picture to be my biggest influence right now as to the feel of the presentation:

Only local images are allowed.

(I really like the tetris-like style of it, and think that's something to work with!)

A DITA documentation distribution for Drupal

Posted by kvantomme on August 19, 2010 at 8:07am
Last updated by kvantomme on Thu, 2010-08-19 08:08

Introduction

A couple of weeks ago we launched Modulecraft an awareness & fund-raising project that aims to rally Drupal professionals around a shared effort to create the ultimate toolset for Drupal business. The first fundraising round has as goal the development of a documentation distribution for Drupal that uses a similar approach as the localization server and that enables a distributed/federated documentation architecture for the Drupal project. As a Drupal user you'll be able to get a set of documentation from the drupal.org docs server imported into your own site. You will than be able to edit it and build subsets of the documentation for your own projects. You'll also be able to submit topics that were edited or created by you on your own infrastructure and add them as suggestions to the Drupal documentation server.

The following is a first proposal for the specification of the Documentation system we want to build as part of the modulecraft project. It is by no means complete, and it strongly needs your feedback. This is our first encounter with DITA and our ideas should really be proof checked by technical writers that have extensive experience using DITA. It also contains some proposes a somewhat exotic usage of RDFa, feedback is also very much needed here. In the coming days I'll be adding new sections to the specification here. This is a wiki so be bold! You can add comments either here or at the original posts on the Pronovix blog. I'll be incorporating feedback into this wiki.

Is there a product competition analysis of the main socialnetworking solutions ?

Posted by JBI on August 10, 2010 at 11:23pm

Is there a feature list and competition analysis Drupal or non Drupal intranet usable out of box ?
The main supects (for me) would be :

Build on top of Drupal http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
In OpenSource http://buddypress.org/
In MS http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/
In Saas http://www.jivesoftware.com/ for business and http://ning.com for general public

If not already the case we can try to do that together...

We have quite some material in previous discutions
http://groups.drupal.org/node/53268
http://groups.drupal.org/node/45468

Commit restrictions lifted for installation profiles hosted on drupal.org

Posted by dww on August 5, 2010 at 10:50pm

FYI: http://drupal.org/node/779476#comment-3294416

You can now commit anything to an installation profile that you could commit anywhere else in the CVS repository. So, if your installation profile requires its own module or theme or something, you can just include those files directly in your profile's directory instead of having to use separate projects for them.

Install Profile modules don't get auto-updated?

Posted by stri_berry on July 26, 2010 at 10:03am

When an install profile is packaged, it contains specific versions of its modules. This total package gets a version number.

e.g. Cool Profile v1.32 = module1 v1.19 + module2 v.3.48 + module3 v0.80

I heard that to maintain the integrity of the install profiles versioning system, its individual modules don't auto-update themselves like a module you've installed yourself would. If this is true, I understand the reasoning behind this, but can someone confirm if it's indeed true?

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