In honor of the Drupal 7 feature freeze in September we're focusing the theme for this meetup on D7 patches.
I'm hoping that everyone will come with a laptop with the CVS version of D7 installed locally. Now most of us don't work from this version of Drupal, so I've posted a screencast:
http://blip.tv/file/187741/
The links to the main CVS page in the handbook (the navigation has changed since the video):
http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs
A link to another text install about how to do this:
http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/369
As well as the main guide for installing from the CVS:
http://drupal.org/node/320
Would be good to have us all with this level of install so that we can start looking at the thousands of issues that are outstanding in Drupal.org that we can begin to look at & hopefully get into core.
If please post questions here if you've got problems and take some time in July to help work through the installation so we'll be ready for August.
As of June 13th there are:
- 320 Pending bugs (D7)
- 293 Critical issues (D7)
- 1515 Patch queue (D7)
- 94 Patches to review (D7)
There are also lists of Performance issues, Usability issues, Fields in Core issues and Accessibility issues to look at.
The issues have been tagged so it is possible to review them. You can even see ones tagged as Dries' Favourites
This is evening will hopefully get more developers in Ottawa familiar with using Drupal 7, contributing code suggestions to issues that affect us all and help us all have better tools to work with in 2010.
Wirespeak has again offered up their office in the ByWard Market (78 George St, Suite 2) and hopefully the weather will be nice enough to head out to a patio afterward. If a lot of people sign up for this meet up we may need to look at moving to a larger venue, so keep watching this space!
Please sign up for this event.
Hope to see you there.
Comments
I appreciate the call to
I appreciate the call to arms here, Mike. I'll try to make it to this and bring whoever else is around. Only a 2-hr event though?
Would be great if it were longer, but
Not sure that we can get the people out for a full day code-a-thon. Seemed that if folks came with D7 installed on their laptops that we could go through some of the outstanding issues and walk through how to test a patch and contribute to the review process. I'm hoping that it will be enough to give people a taste of it, break down some of the concerns that stop people from contributing. It's to all of our advantages to have D7 to be as stable as possible and have us work through as many buggy issues as we can. Even just hitting a few patches here would be good.
Mike
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need help finishing install for today!...
I am trying finish the install of drupal 7 on my machine, but get the following message on the very last page of configuring the site:
Home
SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry 'garland-system-main' for key 2
Can anyone help?
This is occasionally an issue
Hey,
Not sure I can give you a solution on this, but see:
http://drupal.org/node/482346
There's also an active thread here:
http://drupal.org/node/251792
Mike
OpenConcept | CLF 2.0 | Podcasting
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OpenConcept | Twitter @mgifford | Drupal Security Guide
Sounds like this bug
http://drupal.org/node/537458?mode=2&sort=2
Did you try downloading the latest build?
yes I downloaded it this
yes I downloaded it this morning... I am afraid I may not have time to figure that out in time for the meeting tonight...
I will try though!
I have never installed a patch before and need to look into how to do that...
URGENT: Cancelling Tonight's Event!
Sorry folks,
Not sure if it's just August or the theme, but there's not been much interest this month so think it's best to cancel this event.
Mike
OpenConcept | CLF 2.0 | Podcasting
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OpenConcept | Twitter @mgifford | Drupal Security Guide
Thanks for letting us know
I hope to be able to make the September meetup. See you then.