Ideas for Quickstart 0.7?

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MichaelCole's picture

Hello,

It's time for a new version of Quickstart, and I'm wondering how to improve it.

What are you using Quickstart for?
- What's helping?
- What could be improved?

If you're not using Quickstart, why? Where did it fall short?

Some ideas I had are:

  • Hudson and Selenium integration. I just did this for a client and could integrate it into the image. Would this be useful?
  • Improving the quickstart drush commands. Is anyone using this?
  • Some screen casts on using the project? Short howto videos for this and that?

Is there anything you'd like to contribute to Quickstart, but don't know how?

Cheers,

Mike

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Add an Open Atrium drush command?

tlynnec's picture

I really like Quickstart for drupal. It made setting up a development environment very easy - especially for someone like me who's new to the whole virtual server thing. The ability to automagically set up the sql, etc. is priceless.

I think the idea of videos or screencasts for how-tos is great.

One of the things I used quickstart for was to create an Open Atrium development site. It required a bit of a workaround - If there would be any way to add a drush command that would download & install the latest version of OA instead of drupal 6/7, I think that would be VERY helpful. For reference, my workaround for installing OA is here: https://community.openatrium.com/documentation-en/node/2099

This is what I use to add Hudson to Quickstart

Sean Buscay's picture

Hello. Love the work you've done with quickstart.

I wanted to share what I use to add hudson.

The code will:

  1. Add Hudson
  2. Put it on port 8081 to not conflict with Solr
  3. Make "quickstart" the hudson user and hudson directory

After the code is run, a restart of hudson will create hudson files in the quickstart directory. Code goes in an sh script and the script can be added in the install-quickstart.sh file as: bash -x ~/quickstart/quickstart-add-hudson.sh

!/bin/bash

cd ~
wget -O /tmp/key http://hudson-ci.org/debian/hudson-ci.org.key
sudo apt-key add /tmp/key
wget -O /tmp/hudson.deb http://hudson-ci.org/latest/debian/hudson.deb
sudo dpkg --install /tmp/hudson.deb
sudo apt-get install -f #this just fixes any dependencies, usually just daemon
mkdir /home/quickstart/hudson
zenity --info --text="Around line 15 change the user to: HUDSON_USER=quickstart and around line 40 change the port to HTTP_PORT=8081"
sudo gedit /etc/default/hudson

Hope this may be useful to someone else.

I also posted this in the project issue que here: http://drupal.org/node/870406

join forces with Turnkey Linux?

matt v.'s picture

I wonder if it would make sense to combine efforts with the Turnkey Linux project. They're even running a TurnKey Appliance Development Contest that might be worth checking out.

NetBeans plugins support for Drupal

matt v.'s picture

How about adding NetBeans plugins support for Drupal? It's a simple wizard for creating Drupal modules and themes that includes code snippets.

Quickstart Drupal Development Environment

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