September 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Drupal Trivia: The Lost Columns.
by Barry Jaspan 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Over at http://drupal.org/node/164983 we're trying to add documentation to every table and field in the schema structure. Schema.module uses this to print a cross-linked description of every table. Who wants to demonstrate their master of Drupal-dom by telling us what these table columns are for? node_type.modified permission.tid users.mode users.sort users.threshold If this seems like fun, feel free to grab one of the few remaining modules whose tables are undocumented. Instructions are in the issue. openid profile search system Thanks! Barry

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Some numbers
by Karoly Negyesi 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi, Number of people who have participated in the beta breaker issues (one of which is usability of a new functionality so it requires zero experience with anything): 17. Total number of replies on these issues: 38 + 36 = 74. Number of folloups on the GPL thread: 168. Number of participants in the GPL thread: 31 Of these participates in the beta break threads: 6 Other well known Drupal contributors in the GPL thread: 12 You know who you are and which group you are in and what have you added to the Drupal community. Thanks. Good night. Karoly Negyesi

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Drupal Core Test Plan
by Angela Byron 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

One of my specialties (or at least something I get roped into doing fairly often ;)) is testing things with a fine-toothed comb. I have no formal background in testing methodologies or anything like that at all, but in my experience proper testing involves both: a) Figuring out all the various bits of functionality each sub-set of Drupal offers and making sure they all work. b) Intentionally throwing invalid stuff at the system or using it in unexpected ways to make sure it recovers. Over last weekend, chx and I were tag-teaming the forthcoming D6 issue queue; I was going through all aspects of core in detail identifying critical issues, chx was rolling patches for them, and I would then review/RTBC the patches he came up with. About halfway through, I decided it might be useful to document all the stuff that I was testing, and came up with this document: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5974 It's pretty rough at this point, and I was hoping to get much further with it before I posted it to the list, but I figured better early than never. ;) It's a wiki page, and I hope that others will contribute to extending the list to cover all of core. As new bugs come up, we can add tests that cover them to the list. Among the things we could do with this: - Use it purely as a means of cataloguing all of the bugs that have broken core in one way or another. Before a release, we "spot check" a few of these trouble areas and make sure they're good to go. - Before any release, we split up the various sections among individuals, so that each person can take a component (node system, user system, etc.) and make sure all of the tests there pass. This way we have no more of this "one person trying to test all of core by herself" business again. ;) - We can also use this as a check-list for our library of SimpleTest automated tests (or Selenium or whatever). While it takes awhile to write all of these, once they were written "in theory" no human would ever need to test those aspects again. If anyone can suggest improvements or wants to help fill out this list, by all means do! This is one of those tasks that literally anyone can help with, regardless of your Drupal experience, and it's a great way to get into that "critical eye" mindset that can help make you a good tester. Let's kick those critical bugs to the curb! :) -Angie

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Status of OpenID Support in Drupal 6.0 Dev
by howard chen 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Is it only Alpha or feature completed? Becasue I am interested to back port into 5.x, so if feature is completed, I may try :)

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Re: [development] Data import and synchronization to nodes
by Earnie Boyd 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry(a)garfieldtech.com>: > > So, I toss the brain-teaser out there: Is there a good way to have my nodes > and import them too, or are these cases where nodes are simply the wrong tool > and the direct-import-and-cache mechanisms described above are the optimal > solutions? > Not that I've found and I've spent several hours recently researching this. Chris Mellor and I have begun collaborating on this issue here http://portallink.linkmatics.com/gdf and have development staging here http://datafeed.progw.org. Help is welcome, we want to be able to feed all types of external data. Goals are being established and documented on the http://portallink.linkmatics.com/gdf pages. *Note* we are aware of all the existing modules and API and our plans are to use the existing things as well as create what is missing. I've found http://drupal.org/project/feedparser which will accept RSS, RDF or ATOM feeds and create nodes or aggregated lists. I am successfully using that module with a change documented in issue http://drupal.org/node/169865 at http://give-me-an-offer.com. Earnie

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Module to make text collapsible?
by Richard Morse 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi! I'm wondering if anyone knows of a module that lets users create collapsible blocks on the page, such as can be done with forms? As an example, I'd like to be able to type something like: [block title=Members collapsible collapsed] A. User T. Person A. Member [/collapsible] and have it display a collapsed fieldgroup with a legend of "Members". Does anyone know of anything out there that would provide something like this? Thanks, Ricky The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information.

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Re: [development] About Geolocation module?
by Michelle Cox 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

On 9/12/2007 12:35:24 PM, andy(a)spiders-lair.com wrote: If you were to go ahead we'ed > have "location", "geolocation" and "geo-location". I couldn't think of > anything more confusing (other than actually getting physically lost > somewhere without a map and compass) Don't forget we also have "geo" :) Michelle

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Re: [development] About Geolocation module?
by andy＠spiders-lair.com 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

> another question, if I try to ask for geo-location > with a hyphen in the middle, do you think i will > get approved? Try to think like an end user rather than a developer. If you do that you will have two modules called "geolocation" and "geo-location". Which do you choose? We do try to avoid module functionality duplication so if you applied for an account right now based on the above criteria you'd probably get turned down. Can you not see what else is going on in this area and join forces with others? If you were to go ahead we'ed have "location", "geolocation" and "geo-location". I couldn't think of anything more confusing (other than actually getting physically lost somewhere without a map and compass) --Andy

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xmlrpc usage stats module or page?
by Tomas J. Fulopp 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Is there a module or a live stats page listing module and theme usage stats that users keep sending to http://drupal.org/xmlrpc.php ? Tomas

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About Geolocation module?
by Zidong Cai 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi, I'm very new to drupal project, within several weeks, i've made a new module, which can find out user's geographic information through their latest logining ip address, plus generate a yahoo map. my problem is that i'd like to name my module as 'geolocation' under drupal project, however through searching from google, i find another module of cck field having the same name, listing on drupal cvs http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/geolocation/, then i checked here http://drupal.org/project/Modules, the module list, there seems to be no 'geolocation' module there. I really want to know if this module exits now or just been deleted from drupal. Can I still use 'geolocation' as my module's name if theirs was just deleted? Thanks in advance. Zidong _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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