July 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Fwd: some usability work on drupal
by Dries Buytaert 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Please take a look at some of Kristjan's recent contributions: > http://drupal.org/node/75256 > http://drupal.org/node/75264 -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Without a doubt, Drupal is the CMS of 2006...
by Karoly Negyesi 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

... but there a few unenlightened souls who yet doubt this. Show them the light. Read more at http://drupal.org/node/74631 .

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Have you ever laughed fate in the face?
by Karoly Negyesi 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi, The current way Drupal deals with delete -- using a confirm page -- is not a real good one. Think of it. It becomes a habit very quick to press Confirm, and also "of course I really want to delete it, that's why I pressed the button". A day later when you realize that this deletion was not a good idea, you can almost hear the whining of the computer "but you pressed confirm!". "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy" -- how does this image mate with the friendly smiling face we have choosen as our icon? Chad Philips is working on a patch since last fall which would let Drupal get rid of these absolutely-not-useful confirm screens and give you a shiny moment when you find out that your precious content CAN be brought back from the dead. It deserves much more attention than it gets: http://drupal.org/node/35422 Please review! Thanks, NK

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runaway caching vs. admin/node
by Alex Markley 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hello everybody; Alex here. I don't want to pester anybody, but I'm still new to the process of reporting issues and things, so please correct me where I err! Mostly, I just wanted to draw attention to this: http://drupal.org/node/75186 I've submitted a patch already, but I'm afraid it's more of a hotfix for myself than a real, solid core patch. Additionally, I'm not sure if I did the right thing making the issue "critical". I think I did it mostly because of how much of a nightmare it could be for web admins. (I shudder to think how many times this bug has poisoned my front page without my knowledge!) Please give me some feedback on the patch. If you all think I'm going in the right direction, I'd be willing to: => Install, test, and patch HEAD => Expand the patch to clean up node_operations() => Expand the functionality of the admin/node form as described in the issue. So, feedback. Yeah. :) Thanks for your time! ttyl -- Alex (Malex) Markley http://MalexMedia.Net/ "I may seem like a hard-boiled detective on the outside, but inside, I'm full of... organs." Useless Info: System kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 Reliability: 01:00:02 up 3 days, 2:05, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.14, 0.15

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Re: Object Caching
by Ken Rickard 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Just a note regarding all the cache discussions. I will be in Portland next week for O'Reilly's Open Source. If anyone is attending, we can do some collaboaration and testing. I will be in town Tuesday through Saturday. - Ken agentrickard at gmail.com On 7/23/06, development-request(a)drupal.org <development-request(a)drupal.org> wrote: > > Send development mailing list submissions to > development(a)drupal.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.drupal.org/listinfo/development > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > development-request(a)drupal.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > development-owner(a)drupal.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of development digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. GNOME's CMS evaluation for Drupal (Andy Smith) > 2. Re: Object caching (Larry Garfield) > 3. Re: Caching, caching, caching... (Gordon Heydon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:31:29 +0200 > From: "Andy Smith" <andyster(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [development] GNOME's CMS evaluation for Drupal > To: development(a)drupal.org, documentation(a)drupal.org > Message-ID: > <541901410607221831i320e2153x8aed0777fe7b84a7(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey folks, GNOME is looking to change to a CMS and since I like GNOME I'd > obviously like it to choose a very nice CMS like Drupal, however when I > looked at the page plenty of data appeared to be incomplete, things like > i18n and such that people have less knowledge about, but maybe some of you > can fill it in > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements/DrupalEval > > If you are interested in the GNOME project using Drupal, head to that link > and give some factual info. > > --andy >

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Release critical bugs for July 23, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

/ bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors assigned: msameer age: 17 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 / bug reports Localization problem age: 8 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/64847 No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 34 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports update for deprecated settings hook age: 1 week 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/73917 / bug reports Event Views module returns bad calendar for limit for events of this type. age: 1 week 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/73198 User warning: unknown column age: 4 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/70131 event_start not being set age: 8 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65609 Next link will not show for Junes events age: 10 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/63454 Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 11 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 Event module preventing me from uploading age: 13 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/59775 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 13 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 event calendars off by day/not respecting timezones - fix? 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Caching, caching, caching...
by Gerhard Killesreiter 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Hi there, you may have noticed my recent interest in better caching. This is due to me monitoring the drupal.org hardware. Luckily, the problems we've had (namely the CPU on the db server being saturated) were resolved by more mundane means (optimze your database on occassion...), but since we continue to experience a growing number of visitors on drupal.org, better caching is no waste of time. I've taken two different approaches: 1) to splt up the cache table. The idea is that parts of the cache table don't change that often (the cached menu structures for each user) while others do (page cache, filter cache, ...). The idea is to put the not often changing parts into their own table to allow the mysql query cache to effectively cache this table. The cached queries will be invalidated and removed once one of the underlying tables changes. This cache has been tried on drupal.org, the results were inconclusive, more tests need to be done. 2) to cache expensive queries in Drupal's cache table. I've chosen the forum module as an example and cached the two blocks it provides and the queries in forum_get_forums (forum_get_topics would be another candidate). During initial benchmarking, I've found that the results with and without my patch hardly differed. Why? The mysql query cache cached the queries. Without the mysql query cache my patch improved the time for delivering /forum with both blocks enabled by about 20%. But of course nobody would run mysql without the query cache so the result is hardly interesting. The question is now: Under which circumstances can my caching inside Drupal be better than the mysql query cache? Let's look at the tables involved: {node} {node_comment_statistics} {term_node} {users} Any time one of these tables changes, the mysql cache for queries using the table in question will be invalidated. The approach to caching I've chosen is more fine grained: Only if the node involved is of type forum, the cached query results will be invalidated. Changes to the users table don't matter at all, but we should probably invalidate the cache once a user change his name. On a site such as drupal.org where the majority of comments are against forum nodes, the results of my patch will probably be hardly noticable. If however we convert the project module to use real comments, the situation will change. This discussion seems to make it fairly obvious that caching results of queries to tables that hardly ever change (think taxonomy (unless you use tagging)) is most likely a waste of code. Caching the result of taxonomy_get_tree does seem to confirm this. Now the question is if we want to go down this road. To properly invalidate the cache requires to implement all sorts of hooks (forum module needs _comment and _user for example) which you would not need otherwise. This complicates the code quite a bit. I think that the answer should depend on whether the mysql query cache is as readily available as I assumed it is. It is possible that it isn't available on shared hosting, for example. It is also possible that the example I've chosen was a bad one and caching other structures (especially those where a fair amount of php processing is done) might even provide advantages for people who have the query cache at their disposal. The tests I've done were all done on my laptop while on battery power which is hardly a valid test case. Better tests are needed to arrive at a conclusive result. Cheers, Gerhard

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GNOME's CMS evaluation for Drupal
by Andy Smith 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Hey folks, GNOME is looking to change to a CMS and since I like GNOME I'd obviously like it to choose a very nice CMS like Drupal, however when I looked at the page plenty of data appeared to be incomplete, things like i18n and such that people have less knowledge about, but maybe some of you can fill it in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements/DrupalEval If you are interested in the GNOME project using Drupal, head to that link and give some factual info. --andy

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admin/user filter patch for core
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

i've taken the time to revive jjeff's original patch for a user filter at admin/user. the patch allows you to filter by role, permission, or status, and is a sorely needed piece of functionality for sites with large user bases. at this point i haven't done more than update the patch to current HEAD and make a few minor tweaks--it definitely needs eyes on it, both for coding style and usability. i'd like to urge folks to please have a look at this work and help me get it core worthy prior to the code freeze--it would be a shame to see this slip another release cycle... latest patch is here: http://drupal.org/node/34505#comment-115938 and for those of you who just want to see it in action, i've taken the time to set up a demo site here: http://userfilter.xcarnated.com/ chad

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Fwd: Open Source CMS Award
by Dries Buytaert 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

More information at http://drupal.org/node/74631 ... if you want, take the time to nominate Drupal. Begin forwarded message: > From: damianc(a)packtpub.com > Date: Thu 20 Jul 2006 06:28:44 GMT+02:00 > To: dries.buytaert(a)gmail.com > Subject: Open Source CMS Award > > Hi Dries > > I also thought I'd get in touch to let you know that we launched a new > Award at Packt for open source Content Management Systems today. > This is > designed to reward an open source CMS that has been voted for by a > panel > of judges and visitors to PacktPub.com. The Award is open for all open > source Content Management Systems to enter and offers a first prize of > $5,000 with first runner-up receiving $3,000 and second runner up > $2,000. > > Nominations, which is the first stage of the Award, begin on Monday 24 > July. We are looking for people to put forward nominations for their > favourite open source CMS. The five with the most nominations will > then be > put forward to the final voting stage. A panel of judges will then > vote > for their top three from the final five. As well as votes from the > judges, > we are opening up the vote to the public, which will go towards the > final > decision. > > The Award hub is located at www.packtpub.com/award - please take a > look > for more information. > > This isn't designed as a popularity contest, which is why the final > five > vote is largely down to a panel of judges. However, with the > nomination > stage and final five vote open to the public, we are happy for you > to do > some campaigning to drum up interest and increase nominations/votes > for > the Award :) > > If you have any questions or would like some more information about > the > Award, please let me know. > > Cheers > > Damian -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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