SoC 2007

In the past week and a bit I've been mostly working on improving the loadtest module code so that it's more robust, organized and integrates more cleanly with simpletest. My original approach to add timing was to add a few lines of code to the drupal_test_case.php and drupal_unit_test.php that would call a timing function in loadtest. After rethinking the problem it seemed like a lot cleaner of a solution to just inherit the DrupalTestCase class in a DrupalLoadTest class that over road the 'run' method. Now, any tests that are designed for load testing inherit from the DrupalLoadTest class.

Over the past week and a half or so I have made much progress on my project. The following are main accomplishments:

Last week was spent still working on UI enhancements and trying to tackle the problem how how to get AJAX to gracefully work if javascript isn't enabled. Later in the week I ended up attending barcamp. At barcamp I met the authors of the first jQuery book, they also gave a presentation on jQuery and answered some questions I had about it for me. I also found out that one of the authors is really involved with the Drupal community, Jon Chaffer. He is known as JonBob in the drupal community.

Again a short summary, what has been done the last week and what I've planed to do this week.

Progress last week:

Rework of weight management for terms

As announced in my last report, I did a total rework for the weight management for reordering terms. Initially, I planned to have weight select forms included in the tree structure. Soon, we saw, that this is not very nice.

The code doesn't actually quite do anything yet, but almost all the pieces are in place for community-managing of your taxonomy while browsing content. And, you can look at the code if you're very brave. An initial release will be coming to the CMT project page soon.

The cmt.module file is almost 1,000 lines long, plus an include file for the repetitive information of a form dropdown and the .info and .install files (I've been using install and uninstall a lot!)

Settings etc. work and an initial form for adding terms. Lots of thoughts and decisions documented at Agaric's project site.

There have been some major changes to the bittorrent module over the past week. The announce portion of the tracker received the biggest overhaul with a complete refactor of the request variables validation and processing based on the enwly defined scopes. The addition of scopes has really enhanced the tracker. From the project page:

The original thinking behind the localization server project at large is to simplify Drupal project translation tasks for people. So creating an intuitive interface is important. Among some backend changes (like storing string extraction errors per release, so we can funnel them back to developers to fix), I took most of the recent days with simplifying the UI of the server, and coming up with more user guidance where possible.

The result is a brand new home screen, which provides an overview of what this server is all about, what are the steps required to contribute and gives important pointers to the lesser known global translator communities. I also took considerable amount of time collecting a list of languages, which will be used to launch the site. I took the contributions CVS HEAD of the translations folder, and did count 58 languages, to which more-or-less Drupal core is translated. There could be more languages in contributed module translations, but it is not likely. I also needed to collect the plural formulas for these languages, which was not easy in all the cases (more below). The result is a realistic overview of languages, of which my second screenshot only shows a small amount.

I'm working on a filter module that allows you to surround a chunk of text with [sms][/sms] tags. The module will highlight the text and append a "send to phone" button. The button will take users to a form where they can send the highlighted block of text in a message.

I'd appreciate any ideas or comments! Thanks!

So files are progressing very well. Work with file_create_url and file_create_path is mostly done but there is still some testing left to do. This is one major portion of getting private/public files working as these functions are responsible for creating the download URLs and paths for files. As always you can check out the code using bazaar from http://drupal.codeincarnate.com. In the near future I'll be looking for testers so if anyone is interested drop me a message or holler at me on IRC if you're interested.