SoC 2006

This is a list of 7 successful candidates proposals from soc2006:

Name: [Project title]
link-to-proposal

I will add the rest of the proposals as and when i find them but hopefully these lot should be helpful enough in seeing what kinda of proposals where accepted and the styling etc.

With Rok's guidance, I tested out the automated patch testing system that he's created. I uploaded a number of patches to his site, which then applied them to either Drupal 4.7 or Drupal CVS, and then ran 16 unit tests against them. We tried patches that applied and contained no errors, patches that didn't apply, and patches that had coding errors. Each time the test suite performed beautifully.

The value of this work is that patches that linger in the patch queue often fall out of sync with a moving HEAD. At the point when that happens, Rok's tests would be able to detect that and notify the patch maintainer. Furthermore, Dries, Neil, Gerhard and Steven would never have to write "patch doesn't apply" (after just having wasted their precious time trying to apply it). Furthermore, people often submit patches without thinking through all of the ramifications that a patch can have. If we were to build up a thorough set of unit tests (I can't imagine 16 tests really cover Drupal), then a lot of these errors would be detected automatically.

I don't find a gradebook project on Drupal.org. Please go to http://drupal.org/node/add/project_project and make a project so that the module will appear on the downloads page, have a project page, register your CVS commits, and make issue tracking available. Thanks.

Hello, all,

Rob is hammering out the gradebook, and for those interested, you can check out the current code in cvs.

Things are moving forward nicely -- look for more to come next week.

Cheers,

Bill

Just released new version. Included in the this release is the new-fangled cre query object and comment_recommendation.module which recommends comments within the current node being viewed.

The object allows for joining on any table. Please remember to use {} and a name to identify your table.

For instance node_recommendation does this:

Ok major speed fixes. Redid the query compeletly and added a average user vote table. This allows for the movelens database to run MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH FASTER. I will begin testing it later this week and give back some scores that should be interesting. Try running the update script for me. I did not test it out and I am worried that I didn't write it properly (my first update() :-D ).

Still working on creating a query object that will prevent the one issue that is in the queue right now. More to come soon...

http://drupal.org/project/cre

Scott

Hello, all,

A quick update on the gradebook project --

After a substantial amount of preliminary research, the data structure and a rough version of the API were checked into cvs --

As the coding progresses, there will obviously be some tweaks to the data model, and some changes to the API, but, for those of you looking to use Drupal to manage a class this fall, you can throw out the paper gradebooks!

This project is right on schedule, and progressing as planned.

Below you'll find a summary of some the email exchange between me and Ernest. It would be good if anyone interested commented on the various issues discussed there. Reading through that again makes me feel like a chatterbox. No one is perfect :)

Ernest: I'll go back to the crossbrowser details once we see the collaborative edition working on the screen as we said, even if it's only in FF for now.

Vlado: Are the cross-browser problems mainly related to design mode? Can the design mode be avoided, at least for the time being?

Ernest The issues I posted yesterday concerned only to the iform creation and design mode. I don't see now a means to avoid the design mode, do you?

As you may have already noticed, I'm working on a soc project, which is quite related to this topic:
Node Profile Module and CCK

The difference is, that I'll concentrate on using it with the CCK. However, I'll write code as much independend of the CCK as easily possible, so that my work might be with a custom built node type, too.

I've posted an implementation proposal here. Please post your comments and or suggestions - let me know what you think of it.

-fago

Title says it all really. ;)