<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bčr Kessels</b> <<a href="mailto:ber@webschuur.com">ber@webschuur.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><div> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So yes, I see a big problem here, basically because commercial/consultants<br>cannot make their work valuable for Drupal, becuase most of us cannot wait<br>for a patch to hit core or the contrib it was made for.</blockquote>
<div><br>Sure. So you roll the patch, submit it to the queue, and run the patched version. When the "upstream" code is updated to include the patch, you update your local version and you're back in sync. If you skip the step of making a patch, you always have to be maintaining a custom version. Generally, good discussion with module maintainers doesn't mean weeks for a patch....
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On top of that, I run most of my clients sites of a single multisite<br>(<a href="http://sympal.nl">
sympal.nl</a>) and that makes it impossible to do any core hacks.</blockquote><div><br>No it doesn't. You can override any core modules (yes, not .inc etc. files) by placing them in the sites/modules directory. You can do this on a per site basis. And, you can maintain a patched version of your core install as well, although this takes more effort (but not a lot, since core updates much more infrequently than contribs).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I hardly ever commit patches for core, for they hardly ever get in, in a) the<br>
way I find them useful, b) a useful timeframe. For me its inacceptible to<br>work on one issue for two, three weeks.</blockquote><div><br>That's unfortunate. Usually things will only get into the next version of course, but then you can know that in the next version, your fixes will be in and we all have a better product.
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