Bump: Distro and OpenPublish strategy

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zoon_unit's picture

I'm sort of surprised that not one person responded or commented on my previous post from last week about Distro and Openpublish's upgrade strategy.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/39436

Am I the only one interested in how to upgrade OpenPublish over time?? I'm seriously considering basing an entire blog and news site on OpenPublish. It seems that long term support would be a critical issue here.......

Confused....

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Hi Zoon_unit! I have to

Joao_Torres's picture

Hi Zoon_unit!

I have to agreed with you, because OpenPublish seems to be an excellent sollution for webnewspapers and magazines.

I´me webdesigner and digital marketer from a Media Group in Portugal, and I´m very interested to see if OpenPublish is the ONE sollution. But I have to manage with business time and schedules, and it feels like this group don´t gives the needed support to choose once for all OP to be the solution for our projects.

But maybe the developers are in this moment working hard to the 2.0 version. Maybe the best solution is to wait for 2.0.

But you have 100% true. if the OP don´t have an excellent support and create an solid network for support, the OP quality and eficiency will suffer.

Best regards,

MArtino

zoon_unit, yes, the purpose

irakli's picture

zoon_unit,

yes, the purpose of Distro is definitely to make it easier to maintain (including upgrades) a distribution. It's no easy journey though and we probably will not achieve everything we'd like, maybe even until OP 2.0 but eventually we should get to a pretty sweet place where upgrades are much, much easier.

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Thanks for replying

zoon_unit's picture

I assume that currently, distro is quite limited.

True, but "Rome was not built

irakli's picture

True, but "Rome was not built in a day". We have to start somewhere.

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I used OpenPublish to build

Adam S's picture

I used OpenPublish to build http://thetriton.com which I'm rather proud of because it just happens to be the second website I have ever built.

It seems when first looking at OpenPublish there are many different elements that are tightly interwoven and completely dependent on each other. This is not entirely the case -- they are tightly interwoven but not necessarily dependent on each other. Almost all the modules included are their own independent entities. OpenPublish is just Drupal with a bunch of modules -- so you should maintain it like Drupal and a bunch of modules.

With the exception of installation, seeking support for OpenPublish really doesn't serve much purpose. OpenPublish itself does not have a lot of documentation mostly because each piece and module has a support queue and documentation somewhere else on Drupal.org. Granted the RDF functionality was developed by Phase 2 also, you should probably seek advise in their issue queues.

Every two weeks I download all the updates for all the modules that OpenPublish uses and upgrade them. I would upgrade to Drupal 6.15 however there is a bug with the menu router that required a patch to core and I don't want to do that again. That's not an OpenPublish problem, it's a Drupal problem and I should look to Drupal's issue queue for the answer.

Furthermore, frustrated I striped OpenPublish of everything before I started to build then I actually download the modules and reinstalled some of them as I needed. To accomplish some things I had to install modules that were redundant with native modules to OpenPublish. For example, the new Distro has apache solr installed in it. If it was an informational academic website fantastic, however, I'm selling news and having Google's Custom Search Engine serves me best because I can place ads in the search results and include other websites in the search results.

I've done so many custom mods to OpenPublish that it would be horrible to upgrade it. I just do the normal Drupal practice of downloading modules and upgrade.

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Adamsohn, congratulations

irakli's picture

Adamsohn,

congratulations with the new website. It looks great!

And thanks for sharing your experience.

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