This group will be for discussing future work and other ideas relating to the new system for releasing Drupal contributions that is now in use.
This is a place for news, announcements, and general discussion. Actual bugs and well-defined feature requests should still be submitted to the issue queue of the appropriate modules:
Thanks, and welcome to the group!
-Derek (dww)
Help test 5.x core (and project*) on scratch.drupal.org -- become a project ninja!
the Drupal Dojo sounds great, and i'm happy to join the efforts (as both student and teacher, it's a whole spectrum, not a bit). anyone who wants to dive into Drupal development right now can help by mercilessly beating on http://scratch.drupal.org to test out the latest 5.x release candidate code, and submitting issues (with patches, if possible!) about any problems you find.
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I've noticed a couple of other helpful resources on there in The Wild(tm) relating to my efforts on the new release system. I figured it'd be nice to list them all here, so other folks can a) benefit from easy access to the additional info and b) add to the list as they see fit. Perhaps some of this can/should be linked to from the CVS handbook pages about the release system on d.o? Anyway, here's the list...
- Lullabot Podcast #28: Derek Wright and the New Release System
- My informal take on using the new release system (post by Earl Miles a.k.a. merlinofchaos).
- Testing the new Drupal release system (post by Kjartan Mannes, original author of the project.module).
- Project of the Month: Drupal Project.module
Distributions: The prerequisites on drupal.org
Cross-posting an email I sent to infrastructure list a few weeks ago, together with Kjartan's response.
It would be great if drupal.org supported distributions by the time Drupal 5 will be released.
The two mails (by Kjartan and me) outline a way to support distributions in an easy way (both for developers and end users). So what are your opinions on this?
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Dedicated project space for install profiles and distributions?
Are there any existing guidelines or best practices when it comes to developing specific install profiles and distributions? As far as I can tell, I don't see info on this type of contribution (http://drupal.org/node/22286) or a means to set up a project similar to how you'd do it for a module or theme (http://drupal.org/node/7765).
I think this question is relevant to the context of this group. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
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