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April 4th D7CX Sprint: Upgrade contrib to Drupal 7 at GVS Office
The D7CX movement is based around the idea that while it's really important that we launch Drupal 7 by finishing off the critical issue queue it's also enormously important that we have our many contributed modules ready to go the day that Drupal 7 is launched.
Drupal core is an amazing piece of software, but Drupal core without the many wonders of contributed modules and themes is nowhere near as much fun.
GVS Hosts D7CX Sprint Day
So, April 4th we are hosting a D7CX Sprint Day here at our office. We will provide power strips, internet, coffee, camraderie. You should bring your laptop, and some skills in testing out and upgrading Drupal's contributed modules. The sprint will run from 9:30 AM until about 6:00PM - but you are welcome to show up for any part of that time.
Some possible tasks:
- Rewriting documentation for Drupal 7
- Helping to write simpletests so that contributed modules can benefit from a test-driven-development cycle much like core has benefited from it
- Creating patches for the modules and themes to work with the new api.
Folks will be available to help provide instruction in checking out code with cvs, rolling patches, and posting responses in the issue queue.
Some people on hand with specific module experience
- Greggles maintainer of Pathauto, Token, Comment Notify among others.
- Ezra Gildesgame maintainer of Nodequeue, Fivestar and various Nodequeue and Organic Groups related modules
- Ben Jeavons creater of several new modules like Uniqueness, the Drupal 7 specific Queue UI and the Security review module.
- Matt Tucker who has worked on Ominture, Admin message, and the Studio theme pack in addition to various Open Atrium snippets.
- Brad Bowman author of the wicked famous YouTube API.
We'll have space for about 30 people and will also be providing snacks and lunch to keep you working happily. Funding for the libations and vittles comes from the training we are providing on April 3rd.
If you plan on attending please leave a comment here or "signup" on the Groups.Drupal.org page
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There has also been some
There has also been some amazing with the coder upgrade module (formerly Deadwood). While there are still a few upgrade routines that need to be written, a lot of the upgrade process has been automated. Thanks to solotandem's new Grammar Parser, most of the regular expressions from Deadwood have been done away with in favor of more stable token based upgrade routines.
I recommend checking it out, or if there's anyone wants to help out with finishing up the remaining upgrade routines, that would be wonderful too.
Did you realize April 4th is
Did you realize April 4th is Easter Sunday?
Yes, but the event is all day
Yes, but the event is all day so people are encouraged to show up when they can.
Which version of Drupal 7
Which version of Drupal 7 should we install on our laptops? Should we wait until Sunday to install the latest Drupal 7.x-dev?
The dev release is fine and
The dev release is fine and it's unlikely that there will be any commits that would break the APIs, but in the case that is so you can always just download the latest dev and replace.
My preference is to install
My preference is to install it based on a cvs checkout of core. That way you can easily make a patch and you can easily update as core is updated.
I'll just wait until Sunday
I'll just wait until Sunday then.
Sadly, either I hadn't heard
Sadly, either I hadn't heard of this or had (more likely) forgotten.
More sadly, I have family visiting this weekend and won't be able to attend. Have fun!