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Create a Module Release

Video by Addison BerryJanuary 14, 2008 - 1:46pm

FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

This video walks through creating a new release on drupal.org for a contributed module. I needed to do this for my Nice Menus module so I went ahead and captured what I did. It starts by applying a patch from the queue, committing the changes to CVS, tagging the release and then finishing up by creating the release node on d.o.

There is a slide with handbook references for the things that are covered but I'll list them here as well.
Patching: http://drupal.org/patch/apply
CVS command line: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart
Handling release nodes: http://drupal.org/node/94151

Comments

Lloyd (not verified) on January 15, 2008 - 9:02am

Sure would love the audio

Addison, I would love to hear the audio, I think this would show a glimps into one of the mysteries of contributing to a Drupal Project...

Love your work and the prodcast that you all do is a huge service to the Drupal community.

January 15, 2008 - 9:17am Addison Berry

Has audio now

The updated video (as of yesterday afternoon) has the audio on it. The non-audio bork only lasted for about 2 hours yesterday.

And thanks!

Jacine (not verified) on January 16, 2008 - 3:05pm

Thanks Addi :)

It looks so easy when you do it! :P

Thanks so much for this. It is a great walkthrough. The best part is that I can come back and watch you do it, before I do my next release as opposed to just reading (and mucking it up) on my own.

rapsli (not verified) on January 23, 2008 - 5:49am

thanks

Hi. Thanks for the video. I'm planing on contributing my first little module. So this is a good help :)

Anonymous (not verified) on January 26, 2008 - 3:58pm

Too Difficult

I'm not used to working in CVS or SVN, which is likely the problem, but the reason I don't submit some of my modules to drupal is because the submission process seems too difficult. I suspect this is the same for many, many people.

Couldn't there be a web-based interface for submitting/updating modules?

Having said that, thanks Addi for the help and your efforts!

Anonymous (not verified) on April 5, 2008 - 9:23pm

Flash Video not QuickTime

Can you make a video based on Flash not Quicktime?
Most people's browsers do not support quicktime. They need to download and install the huge quicktime player.

Anonymous (not verified) on March 16, 2009 - 3:03pm

I think it might be

I think it might be informative to show a video on how to contribute to a project by creating a patch.

ie.
* Anon CVS checkout
* Make changes
* Create patch against the CVS
* Post patch to the issue queue

This would be a precursor to this video (assuming its not you that made the patch)

March 16, 2009 - 3:25pm Addison Berry

already on D.o

I do already have these on Drupal.org. They were made before my Lullabot days and so aren't here.

Rolling Patches in Drupal shows how to use diff and cvs diff.

Checkout Drupal HEAD from CVS shows how to get an anonymous checkout of core. I keep planning and not getting the time to do a whole series of videos on using version control and Drupal's CVS at some point, so maybe if the time gods smile on me I can add to the list.