<br>I've made a single-user blog profile using only core.<br><br>I'd like to see peoples opinions on it!<br><br>Where should I upload it?<br><br>=dmitrig01=<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2007 6:56 AM, Sean Robertson <
<a href="mailto:seanr@ngpsoftware.com">seanr@ngpsoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I like this idea, but it's really hard for me to do using only core
<br>modules. I don't think I've done a core-only site in three years. ;-)<br><br>I suspect a lot of other people will have the same problem - certainly<br>anyone of the skill level required to be able to actually write and
<br>maintain an install profile.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:<br>>> Quoting Dries Buytaert <<a href="mailto:dries.buytaert@gmail.com">dries.buytaert@gmail.com</a>>:
<br>>><br>>>> On 13 Nov 2007, at 20:06, Derek Wright wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:<br>>>>><br>>>>>> I don't mind having two or three profiles ship with Drupal core.
<br>>>>> To clarify, you mean some install profiles that ship with core<br>>>>> *which only include core modules*, right?<br>>>> Yes.<br>>>><br>>>> --<br>>>> Dries Buytaert ::
<a href="http://www.buytaert.net/" target="_blank">http://www.buytaert.net/</a><br>><br>> If we ship Drupal 6 with additional install profiles, we should also have a<br>> designated maintainer for each one of them. Each profile maintainer should
<br>> be primarily using "his" profile for own sites and she/he should have deep<br>> insight into the market the profile deals with.<br>><br>> By writing this, I actually think that development speed in core could be
<br>> too slow for having great install profiles. See: any improvements to a<br>> blogging profile would have to wait for D7.<br>><br>> Conclusion: I would rather suggest to write detailed documentation about<br>
> developing install profiles and support Derek in realizing his efforts of<br>> pre-packaged install profiles, instead of shipping Drupal with poor "example<br>> profiles". Users evaluating Drupal for a blog would not know of contributed
<br>> install profiles. So they would test that blogging profile in core and<br>> probably head over to another blog-ready system, because modules in Drupal<br>> core do not provide as much features as other blogging systems.
<br>><br>> sun<br><br></div></div><font color="#888888">--<br>Sean Robertson<br>Web Developer<br>NGP Software, Inc.<br><a href="mailto:seanr@ngpsoftware.com">seanr@ngpsoftware.com</a><br>(202) 686-9330<br><a href="http://www.ngpsoftware.com" target="_blank">
http://www.ngpsoftware.com</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br>