March 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

How to become a comaintainer
by hex 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hello. WebLinks.module is owned by ideaoforder (http://drupal.org/user/43583) who hadn't been active for a few weeks and is generally not quite active, looking at the personal tracker and commit statistics. There's no way to contact that user, and there are 26 active issues, some of which are critical. I'd be glad to fix them; I'd be glad to co-maintain this module, because I use it and I'm planning to use it on more web sites in the nearest future. Is there a way to do that? I have a CVS account, if that help. -- hex, out.

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Sympal script / module Fetcher as profile enhancement
by Jean-Marie Renouard 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hello, What about using the sympal script moduleFetcher in profile.module in order to be able to add dynamically new contributed module in the installation process ? http://drupal.org/project/sympal_scripts The moduleFectcher is able to catch module from the official Drupal web site and install it into the directory tree. There is several issues I know about security around such a process and I am agree from it. In a other hand, a profile module that could be able to install contributed module automatically and perform standard settings for it, it could be fun too ! So please tell me more about such a feature. I am ready to help you to reach critical issues around it. -- Cordialement, Jean-Marie Renouard

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Re: [development] Book module break out features
by Peter Wolanin 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Steven, Have you and Jeff looked at this SoC suggestion I wrote up: http://drupal.org/node/128731 I really don't like the proposal of allowing multiple parents for nodes in this module- I think we lose more than we gain in terms of complexity, performance, UI, etc when we move away from a single hierarchy. -Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steven Peck" <speck(a)blkmtn.org> To: <development(a)drupal.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:26:00 -0700 Subject: [development] Book module break out features Jeff Eaton and I had chatted about book module off and on for the last month when in Dries 'state of Drupal' presentation he mentioned some of the same things as well. At the code session I hunted several people down and tried to come up with a task based list of steps to get book module to the 'next' level for Drupal 6. So here's the break down, if no one has any objections I will file them as separate issue's. Separate outline out of book/book content type and make a legacy content type called book for migration purposes. Allow for multiple root books with their own permissions and /menu blocks Allow for next/prev automatic links on/off for a given book yes this can be done through the theme but a switch would make it more accessible Versioned pages for each book which affect the tree - support branches/tags to allow for selecting which branch you want to see. User input multiple relationship (on page or displayed separate block) Menu system allows you to split menu's into multiple navigation blocks. Look at integrating book module to register it's menu's with the menu module to create per book modules into the menu system. (per Dries) This would also bring it more in line with other core modules. Allow for a given node to be tagged for more than one hierarchy Use vamcode for the module (per Dries)

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Book module break out features
by Steven Peck 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Jeff Eaton and I had chatted about book module off and on for the last month when in Dries 'state of Drupal' presentation he mentioned some of the same things as well. At the code session I hunted several people down and tried to come up with a task based list of steps to get book module to the 'next' level for Drupal 6. So here's the break down, if no one has any objections I will file them as separate issue's. Separate outline out of book/book content type and make a legacy content type called book for migration purposes. Allow for multiple root books with their own permissions and /menu blocks Allow for next/prev automatic links on/off for a given book yes this can be done through the theme but a switch would make it more accessible Versioned pages for each book which affect the tree - support branches/tags to allow for selecting which branch you want to see. User input multiple relationship (on page or displayed separate block) Menu system allows you to split menu's into multiple navigation blocks. Look at integrating book module to register it's menu's with the menu module to create per book modules into the menu system. (per Dries) This would also bring it more in line with other core modules. Allow for a given node to be tagged for more than one hierarchy Use vamcode for the module (per Dries)

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Manual import of .po files for contributed modules needed?
by Olav Schettler 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Sorry for bugging you. This is a cross post from http://drupal.org/ node/130702 where I haven't got a satisfying answer yet. My question: Is there an automatism already implemented or in the works that imports .po files of contributed modules (those in the po/ subdirectory) when I activate that contributed module via the admin web interface? Wouldn't this be a good idea? Or, am I supposed to download these files manually from my server- side installation and feed them to localize. Thank you for your answers, Olav Schettler

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if you change your menu definition
by Karoly Negyesi 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

And then you want to have some effect then in the past you emptied cache_menu. In HEAD that achieves particularly little as that table is currently unused and we might even drop it. Go to a settings page and press save. That runs menu_rebuild. (There are other pages but this is the simplest) I guess devel module will also get a menu_rebuild button or something soon if it does not have it already.

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Re: [development] Notice
by andy＠spiders-lair.com 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

> Drupal core is now E_NOTICE free or it's supposed to be. > a) Please file separate issues if you find any. And drop me a mail about them. http://drupal.org/node/126177 regards, --Andy (AjK)

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Notice
by Karoly Negyesi 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi, Drupal core is now E_NOTICE free or it's supposed to be. a) Please file separate issues if you find any. And drop me a mail about them. b) Do not introduce notices with your patches. If you want to write if ($foo) or $foo ? use if(!empty($foo)). c) if (count($foo)) and if (sizeof($foo)) are much slower than if (!empty($foo)) empty and isset are the same speed and do not throw notices. if something is not set or NULL, then isset is TRUE. if something is not set or NULL or empty array, 0 or '' or '0' then empty is TRUE. Regards, NK

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isset , empty and notices
by Karoly Negyesi 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I noticed I pretty fscked up my notice on notice free practices. There is a cheat sheet over at http://www.blueshoes.org/en/developer/php_cheat_sheet/ Please do not use is_null it's the same as !isset and slower than that.

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Language
by Dries Buytaert 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hello, thanks to the hard work of Gabor, Doug, Jose, chx, Steven, Development Seed et al, I managed to commit the new language subsystem (http://drupal.org/node/128866) This makes for the first step towards better i18n and l10n support. Say 'yay!' ... :) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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