features

Lets open some discussion on the Features, context, exportables and migration topics we touched on last week. I asked 'how to add new components to existing or to create a new feature through drush'. It looks like some work is being done through drush features add (drush fa) but this is only for D7.

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/6770/adding-components-to-a-fe...

I've been using COD for a couple projects recently, one for a decent sized yearly conference, one for a local tech monthly meetup club in China, and another for a small club with free monthly speeches and a paid yearly seminar. COD is a great starting point for all of these projects, but I think the architecture could use some tweaking. (Admittedly maybe this is a bit outside of the current roadmap towards D7 version but I think the points still apply)

1.) Separate UUID generated content into separate feature, not in base feature

Check out the design and strategy doc for lots of background info. Automated packages are being built on drupal.org, any feedback is appreciated!

Design and Strategy Process + 1.0 Roadmap
Download Pushtape distribution [warning: alpha!]
Download Pushtape Features [warning: alpha!]
Pushtape.com (sign up for email list)

IRC: Join #pushtape on freenode!

Word on the tweet is there are some musician friendly features growing in Drupal Gardens. Considering modules such as Media and Media Gallery have been improved and/or contributed out of gardens, there could be points of overlap with developing Pushtape features.

This 'could' be a very good thing!?!

http://drupal.org/project/features

Como crear Features

Los Features son fáciles de crear, tienes una interfaz en: admin/structure/features/create

Ahí puedes seleccionar el tipo de contenido, vistas, taxonomía, campos, estilos de imágenes, etc. Una vez que le des un nombre y le des una primera versión como: 7.x-1.0-beta1, puedes decargartelo. Este módulo tendrá que ser añadido a tu: sites/all/modules

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, June 8th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:

Remote (from furthest to closest):
Seattle - Chris Parsons @chillin411
Boca Raton - Mark Stahlbaum @markeytoe
Coral Springs - Jason Graham @polishyourimage

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Claudio Vera @modulist
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Luis Salazar @LuisPixelhead
Norman Flech @Straightalk
Me @hectoriribarne

We continued to have remote users participate in our meetup via Skype and TeamViewer.

Last night the Gainesville Drupal Users Group (heretofore to be known as GatorDUG) held its month meeting (which occurs on the 2rd meeting each month). We had 5 people in attendance (Mike, Jen, Nadia, Ricky, and Mark) this month, which is a bit lower than usual, but it is summer up here (when everyone leaves town).

Quick Recap

1. Mike demoed a development site and theme that he is working on for www.VisitNosara.com (hopefully to launch within several weeks)
2. Mike previewed a new website mockup for www.GatorTailgating.com and ran basic usability tests on the group... this led into an interesting conversation of usability theory and topics.
3. The group talked about increasing attendence. We have a 50,000+ student university in our backyard, but only one or two regular attendees from said university.
   1. Emailing the UF Web Managers email list
   2. Emailing the UF CCC email list (not sure what that stands for...)
   3. Emailing the UF Linux email list
   4. Doing a Gainesville Drupal Users Group Website
      1. Mike registered both GatorDUG.com and GatorDUG.org
      2. Jen will handle hosting (via WebEnabled)
4. We previewed the Denver Drupalcon website and discovered its not running Drupal!
5. ...which led into a discussion on deconstructing live Drupal websites via HTML source, and HTTP headers. Mike will give a session on this next meetup
6. Jen gave an awesome demo of the Features Module, and showed us how to export content types, fields, and views, and then add them back by installing the created module
7. Somehow the discussion led into input formats. Mike discussed creating a 'raw' input format and how to secure, and remove filters to enable a secure user to input javascript/iframes, etc.
8. Mike also demoed the Better Formats Module, which enables Drupal to set a default input format (and therefor WYSIWYG editor) per content type.

Ideas for the GatorDUG.org website

• Members will write an article before giving monthly presentations (this will build up content quickly)
• Facebook integration
• Profile fields to link to profile on Drupal.org
• Members page (a user view) with images of each user.
• Easy to create an account and use.
• Other websites can link to this site using the "Gainesville Drupal" and "Drupal Gainesville" anchor text, which should rank us for those keywords in the search engines

Next Meetup is June 9th!

• Meetup will be held at the Alachua County Library HQ
• Mike will give presentations on Deconstructing Drupal, and also theming Webform submission emails.
• Plus much much more!
• Come see us!

I've been studying a bit about the concepts of features driven development and installation profiles. I though Dmitri's Drupalchi sessions was very informative.

One thing he glossed over though, was where should your features go to live for an installation profile.

Should I add them to my sandbox, that way they are hosted at least on drupal.org, or set up my own features server?

I think it would be good for us to share our educational site features. Any thoughts?

Hi Techies--
I've installed the voip modules. I just thought I'd mention for the noobies out there on installs that you'll need to load the cck , view and features modules first.

Leo--
Did I miss any of the prerequisites?