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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.

Max Bell's picture

Distribution Profiles Manager

While the length of time I have procrastinated in posting this is shameful, although I lurk regularly still, I have not so much as created a sandbox install in the last couple of months as a result of personal obligations.

I can't say how gratifying it's been that this group didn't die immediately from lack of interest but has actually flourished and achieved it's goals.

But I don't actually post here, let alone do anything management like, so I really need to ask if anyone wants to assume management, just so that one of you has access to the added functionality?

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bonobo's picture

DrupalEd 5.3-0

This release features both security and maintenance upgrades.

For new users, this is the best version to download and install. The download tarball contains a directory named "Instructions" that contains some instructions on getting started. For additional help, and/or to get involved with the DrupalEd community, submit issues to the issue queue or join the DrupalEd group.

Download DrupalEd here

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blender1968's picture

Effectiveness of Profile Wizard?

Hello,

I am wondering what success other people are having with this capability? In theory it is great, but in practice not so much. At least not for me...

In my setup the menuing of System1 is not maintained in System2 - there isn't a menu.

I've been comparing the tables of the two systems and combing through the generated .profile but nothing is jumping out at me.

I'm wondering if I should abandon use of the Wizard and just leverage the functions in crud.inc ?

Thanks!

Cheers

Jason

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Stripey's picture

My install profile project

Hiya,

I guess this group is here to talk about install profile projects so here is a post about mine.

I am working on creating an install profile for the Industrial Workers of the World, which is a union I am a member of. Currently the main site there runs drupal but most of the branch sites are hand-coded HTML with various degrees of skill, design etc. I think the Starbucks Worker's Union probably has the nicest site in the union.

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Chris Charlton's picture

Are you storing your Drupal sites or configs in a version control system? If so, which?

SVN (Subversion)
48% (112 votes)
CVS
6% (14 votes)
Other (please comment which)
8% (18 votes)
No, but I'd like to!
30% (70 votes)
No, I don't store my drupal sites in a version control system of any kind.
9% (20 votes)
Total votes: 234

Install profile action!

So - we have all these all great profile ideas, and someone's gonna need to do them... most of them already have site recipes or something of that sort, we just need someone to do them. I'll start with a list, and if you want to do a profile, add your name.

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  • Small business
  • Digg-like profile
  • Bands and musicians
  • Blogs being done by dmitrig01
  • User Discussion Forums
  • Media centric profiles
  • News Reader
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    Call for install profile ideas

    What needs to be an install profile?
    Please comment with your ideas!

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    greggles's picture

    local directory / local reviews profile

    I recently created a(nother) local review site. The original is http://chipotlog.com/ and the secondary is http://coloradogolflife.com/

    I'm trying to think about whether or not this should be a profile:

    Modules:

    • CCK
    • Views
    • Panels
    • Location
    • Fivestar/votingAPI as CCK fields
    • other random utility modules

    Configurations:

    • Locations/businesses: nodes
    • Reviews: nodes as node reference
    • blog posts
    • that's it!

    So, I write here to gain input and see what other folks think about this as a profile.

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    bonobo's picture

    DrupalEd 5.2-1

    Get release 5.2-1 here.

    From the upgrade notes included in the release:

    This upgrade is in response to the CCK security announcement.

    While this security upgrade only affects a specific use of CCK that is not present in the DrupalEd configuration, anyone running DrupalEd is strongly advised to upgrade. A healthy dose of paranoia regarding security concerns can save you hours of time/emotional distress.

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    Amazon's picture

    APIs for hosted profiles

    Hello, CivicSpace has released a set of APIs for creating hosted Drupal and CiviCRM profiles.

    Hosted profiles are different than Drupal distributions in 3 key ways:
    1) Hosted profiles can be updated in production.
    2) Hosted profiles can be changed from one profile to another for example. e.g. Basic Drupal to Drupal for Education
    3) Hosted profiles can can add, remove modules, and move files. This should not be done with Drupal code as it would be insecure.

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    Sheldon Rampton's picture

    Some suggestions

    I just tried out Drupal's installation profile feature for the first time this week and think it has a lot of potential. Using the Install Profile API and Profile Wizard, I was able to create a customized .profile in just a few hours. In the process, the following ideas occurred to me for ways that the installation profile system could be improved further:

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    bonobo's picture

    Drupal Core Upgrade

    All users of DrupalEd should should know about a security upgrade to Drupal core. As this is a security upgrade, people with sites in production are advised to upgrade immediately.

    The announcement, with upgrade directions, can be read here.

    The new version of DrupalEd with all security patches applied can be downloaded here.

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    dman's picture

    Profile for a 'corporate' site - work in progress

    I've started writing up a handbook on lessons learnt when setting up a more centrally-administered site.

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    blockquote>
    Drupal is set up to maintain community-based sites out of the box, with comments, blogs, forums, and multiple users and roles integrated as part of core.
    However it's also a very strong platform for centralized, traditional Content Management and a full web development platform, from a brochureware 'about us' site presence to full ecommerce site or knowlegebase.

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    joshk's picture

    Programatic CCK Now Possible!

    I just wanted to point out a very important change to content_copy.module that makes it much more fasible to create CCK field programatically as part of an install profile. As of last week, the DRUPAL-5 CVS version of content_copy.module no longer ends content_copy_import_form_submit() with a drupal_goto().

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    Amazon's picture

    Required modules for profile

    In System.module there is an array with required modules.

    // Merge in required modules. $modules_required = array('block', 'filter', 'node', 'system', 'user', 'watchdog');
    foreach ($modules_required as $required) {
    $disabled[] = $required;
    $form['disabled_modules']['#value'][$required] = TRUE;
    }

    However, when I add modules I want to be required, they do not appear as core required modules, in the modules page.

    Any ideas how to require modules in a profile?

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    Ingredients and examples for a drupal band/artist site

    Thought a wiki would be good forum for gathering examples/features for the ideal artist solution and/or install profile. Next step would be to figure out a way to collaboratively build a solution(s) that would be useful to the community (and of course, artists and fans).

    Don't hesitate to add/revise to the wiki as well as add your input/ideas in the comments.

    Features/ingredients

    most info lifted from Dublin Drupaller's post here - http://groups.drupal.org/node/3280#comments - please fill in more detail/various options

    • News/Reviews:
      • module options
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    bonobo's picture

    Contributing to DrupalEd

    Hello, all,

    There have been some conversations recently about adding features into DrupalEd -- the main discussion has been around improving documentation and supporting different types of install profiles, but, IMO, there are also other areas where things can be made better.

    First off, for those who are offering suggestions, thank you. Using the install and providing feedback gives us all a place of reference from which to start the discussion, and get more people contributing into DrupalEd.

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    tatien's picture

    Profile Wizard Module

    While working on an installation profile for the Filmforge project, I found out I had to do lots of pretty repetitive tasks. So I thought that it would be nice to have a tool that allows you to quickly generate a .profile file from a working website.

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    schock's picture

    FilmForge: a drupal installation profile for video communities

    FilmForge logo

    Hi all, I just posted this info over at the video group but it's appropriate here too, so apologies for the crosspost: FilmForge is an effort to produce an installation profile / distribution / package of Drupal tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. FilmForge aims to make it as simple as possible to install and run your own video sharing site.

    The FilmForge wiki is here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge

    And the FilmForge demo is here: http://filmforge.koumbit.net.

    You'll notice that we still have a ways to go, with some core functionality still not quite working, and a growing list of desired but postponed functionality. Our plan is to get the demo working with all desired core functionality, then use that as the basis for an installation profile and custom theme.

    For developers who are interested in helping out, at the moment there is also a running list of To Do items here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/ToDo.

    Finally, we were planning on putting together the installation profile here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/DrupalProfile but as you can see we haven't really started, and would greatly welcome help with that process!

    Looking forward to working with you all,
    schock

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    bonobo's picture

    Building install profiles for DrupalEd

    From the longer post on the wiki page:

    The DrupalEd project is now live on Drupal.org -- we are now ready to use the issue queue to centralize discussion on the different install profiles. In starting to discuss the profiles, I suggest we use the following format, as we will need to answer these questions as we build the various profiles.

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