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Drupal Podcast No. 28: Derek Wright And The New Release System

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Derek Wright talks about the new Drupal release system.

December 14, 2006 - 2:00pm
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Anonymous (not verified) on December 15, 2006 - 4:22pm

Where do install profiles and distributions fit in?

Great interview with Derek - Made for an interesting morning walk as I tried to visualize what the heck y'all were talking about.

I've been trying to figure out where contributed install profiles and distributions fit in. I haven't found any info on this type of contribution (http://drupal.org/node/22286) or a means to set up a project similar to how you'd do it for a module or theme (http://drupal.org/node/7765).

Derek isn't the only one who really could use a killer distribution for Bands!?!

Rob Cottingham (not verified) on December 16, 2006 - 12:46am

Derek Wright And The New Release System

Is it just me, or does that sound an awful lot like the name of a 70s progressive rock band?

Andy Laken (not verified) on December 17, 2006 - 8:35pm

idea for drupal.org personalization for new release system

Great to have the podcast back - I was jonesin' for it!

Idea: currently on drupal.org modules download page we have a selector for filtering for which major drupal version modules are compatible with. Wouldn't it be nice to store a user profile preference of which drupal version I want to see the modules page filtered for?

So in my drupal.org user profile, there's a preference "By default show me contrib modules compatible with:" and I select e.g. "drupal 4.6" Now whenever I go to drupal.org/project/Modules - and whether I browse by category, name, or date, the list is default filtered for the version I'm interested in.

There's a related serious usability problem on the modules download page: when I go to drupal.org/project/Modules and select "4.6" from the drop-down, the page refreshes and the category counts change - indicating that the filter has been applied. But if I then click on any of those categories to see the actual modules, the filter is reset to "4.7" - difficult to notice at first - and I need to again set it to "4.6" to see the 4.6 modules in that category. The user preference I suggest above will help this, but even without it subsequent page refreshes should respect the filter setting the user has made - currently it's quite confusing.

[i'll figure out the appropriate place to post these on drupal.org as well- any suggestions?]

Nik (not verified) on December 22, 2006 - 10:07am

Yup

^ What that guy said. All of it.

Also, there's no apparent way to get updates of... well, updates. Am I supposed to maintain an RSS feed for every single module I have installed, across multiple site?

I think a nice feature would be to have a 'module update' page built into drupal, which would cross check against the issues pages for each module, and indicate if there were new issues or new responses to existing ones.

dww (not verified) on December 26, 2006 - 8:52pm

known bug, pre-dates the release system...

this problem is a long-standing bug that pre-dates the new release system.
i've got currently got a patch in the issue queue for this, pending reviews/testing:
http://drupal.org/node/86806

cheers,
-derek (dww)

dww (not verified) on December 26, 2006 - 8:55pm

personalized selector for the version filter...

oh, and i forgot to mention... the patch i just linked to (http://drupal.org/node/86806) works by storing your choice in your drupal.org $_SESSION. so, basically, once you log in and make a selection there, it'd remember that until you logged out again. not quite what you have in mind, but a *lot* less work. ;)

enjoy,
-derek (dww)

ruben (not verified) on December 22, 2006 - 1:36am

Release system - same thoughts

I actually was thinking along the same idea of custom module update alerts : http://drupal.org/node/104606

I was directed here.
Just wanted to let your Know that others, like me find this a killer feature.

Macm (not verified) on December 23, 2006 - 6:02am

Congratulations

Hi

Congratulations, This interview i great. Update module will be very welcome.

Macm

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