From kieran@civicspacelabs.org Sun Aug 14 14:54:14 2005
From: Kieran Lal <kieran@civicspacelabs.org>
To: development@drupal.org
Subject: [drupal-devel] CivicSpace - Drupal 4.7 module porting workshop
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:54:14 +0000
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Hello!

You have been sent a message by Kieran Lal at CivicSpace.

You can view the invitation from where it originated by following this link: =

http://civicspacelabs.org/home/rsvp/email/a9e6b562244d1f3e22c4a92f70ff026e

Here is the message:
<p>Drupal 4.7 is probably going to go into code freeze in the next several we=
eks. In order to facilitate an effective release cycle for contributed module=
s we are conducting the first of several workshops on how to port modules to =
Drupal 4.7.  In particular, this is important for the CivicSpace community wh=
ich has at least 30 contributed modules that they require to be ported to Dru=
pal 4.7.</p>

<ul>
<li><b>Why:</b>At DrupalCon Portland, one of three big challenges for Drupal =
was to enable more developers to contribute to Drupal.  This workshop is an e=
ffort to enable more developers to contribute to the Drupal platform.</b></li>
<li><b>When:</b> 11AM Pacific Coast Time, Coordinated Universal Time -7 hours=
; Daylight Saving Time</li>
<li><b>Where:</b> IRC irc.freenode.net, #drupal-porting</li>
<li><b>Who:</b><ul><li>
Module Maintainers</li>
<li>Developers who are wiling to make patches to contributed modules</li>
<li>Developers who have written custom modules</li>
<li>Users who are willing to install Drupal 4.7 from CVS and test upgraded mo=
dules</li>
</ul></ul>
<p>An upgrade document has been written for porting Drupal modules from 4.6 t=
o 4.7 by Karoly Negyesi.  Karoly is going to help run a workshop next Saturda=
y at 11AM Pacific Time for two hours to facilitate developers porting their m=
odules from 4.6 to 4.7.  If you are not a module maintainer but would like to=
 assist a maintainer you can port a module and submit a patch that has been p=
eer reviewed to the maintainer.  In most cases maintainers will be happy to r=
ecieve a working peer reviewed patch.  If you are a maintainer and would like=
 volunteers to port your modules for you please contact me Kieran at civicspa=
celabs dot org and I'll help to match volunteers to your modules. If you are =
not a programmer but are willing to install Drupal 4.7 from CVS and apply pat=
ches to modules then you can help validate that patches work.</p>

<p>If you have a custom module that is written for previous versions of Drupa=
l now is your chance to get live Drupal developer help to get it read to move=
 to Drupal 4.7.</p>

<p>Documentation is available here: <a href=3D"http://drupal.org/node/22218">=
Porting modules to Drupal 4.7</a></p>

<p>The next porting workshop will be done at a different time to facilitate t=
he various time zones that our developers work in.  Suggestions welcome.</p>

<p>The first workshop will be in <b>IRC #drupal-porting on irc.freenode.net</=
b>.</p>
P.S. Yes we will figure out why the RSVP module has the wrong date for this e=
vent.

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