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I have been harboring some growing concerns about the direction of the plugin manager integration proposals for Drupal core almost since their inception, but have not been able to make an informed opinion on the subject until I had properly reviewed the proposed system on a much deeper scale.

While my impressions of the project and the current implementation are fairly negative, I have aimed to frame my criticisms in a positive constructive manner because I believe that the goals of the project are worthwhile, and that for a large section of users this could be a very flexible and usable solution.

Unfortunately a lot of my concerns have been well founded, and I believe that the implementation of this system needs to be taken in a different direction for it to be able to succeed in its goals, while not negatively affecting projects like Aegir, Open Atrium and many other ‘serious developers’.

I wanted to let the group know that today Street Roots did their hard launch of our community project, the Rose City Resource site. Since we went live in March, Israel (SR director) and I have been tweaking, configuring, and adding (with the continued support of the dev team, thank you).

You can pick up a copy of today's Street Roots to find an article on page 3. Israel is holding a stack of papers for us so if you're not able to pick one up, let me know and I'll send one to you if you want. :)

You can also see the article here:

Overview: Provide an Installation Profile (or a similar system) for helping people so that they can easily build a Project Management tool with typical groupware features as a Drupal website.
Key Points: Modular Architecture, High Usability, High Flexibility.

[Edit: 2 Mar 2009] Pre-Alpha Drupal 6.x Washington version of PFT is up and running and open for Business Objects at http://projectflowandtracker.com/ Hope to see you at my DrupalCon DC presentation Thursday, March 5 at 4:15 in the Berners-Lee Room!
Details at http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/391
Session page: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/project-flow-and-tracker-business-ob...

Online demo site

I took some time today to draw up my vision for the project pages..

Full size version.

It's a mix of my current work, some future plans, and some ideas I had for harnessing Drupal.org's data. More details over here.

So, what do you think?

Hi All,

Just after being denied for the proposal of a new Group entry entitled "Documentation Task Force" i was referred
that here is the best place for my efforts:

For those of the Group who does not know my person and motivations, i will suggest to read some posting I already
have contributed on drupal.org to focus on the big problem to get oriented in the Drupal.org ---- DRUPAL HANDBOOKS.

1. Is there a task force that is dedicate to correct or complete ...

I've been evaluating solutions for Project management (for the duration of this post, that includes what i describe as project, issue, ticketing, case tracking, and pretty much anything that falls in that category) solutions with Drupal, over a year actually. I keep being enticed by the features of each individual solution, and new promises that are announced for each module(s) and trying them out and coming to the same conclusion with each of them. And yes, all of them seem to have the same problems that I'm hitting repeatedly.

See this node http://groups.drupal.org/node/7191 titled "Project Quality Metrics" in the Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association group. It looks like all that activity should either be here, or all the activity intended for this group should be there, i.e. duplicate efforts.

I'm looking for a group of Malaysian Drupaliens, who would like to work on a collaborative project in setting up a Society herein Malaysia, not only for Malaysians but also for the World Community.

The site project should be multi-lingual : most likely the basic three main languages of the World - English / Malay / French. If we do have someone from Malaysia who can undertake Arabic, and Mandarin, they're most welcomed.