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Unit testing
by Karoly Negyesi 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi, Please do not reply to this mail, use the issue queue. I have written a unit testing framework. It is at http://drupal.org/node/249241 . While the parser is a bit harder to grok, it's not really relevant, it just does what it should... the runner itself is really small. I have added some documentation to http://drupal.org/node/30008 . Thanks, Karoly Negyesi

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New advanced help module
by Earl Miles 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

In an effort to provide a framework to get decent documentation into Views 2, I determined that the built in Drupal help is simply not satisfactory for my needs. So I built this framework as a generic module that any module can utilize as an option to get expanded documentation about the administrative side of a module. Currently the module is in beta status -- it is almost certainly missing features, but it has what I want. I'll happily, however, let others who want to expand this to meet the needs of other modules. In my ideal world, this module will be improved, code-wise, until it is core worthy and the basic "how to use Drupal" documentation ends up shipped with Drupal. Perhaps this can happen as part of an upcoming Summer of Code project; in any case, I put this out there for people to use and see what we can do with it. Also, look at it this way: If Views uses it, you know that 50% of the modules out there for Drupal 6 will at least be exposed to it. Oh, the module is for Drupal 6 but can probably be backported to D5 with not a lot of effort. If someone wants to do that, great. I won't be doing it, though. =)

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Test framework in core
by Dries Buytaert 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Hello world, we just added a test framework to Drupal along with a first batch of tests for Drupal core! This is an important milestone for the project so enable the module and check it out ... :) Thanks to Rok Žlender, Károly Négyesi, Jimmy Berry, Kevin Bridges, Charlie Gordon, Douglas Hubler, Miglius Alaburda, Andy Kirkham, Dimitri13, Kieran Lal, Moshe Weitzman, and the many other people that helped with testing over the past years and that drove this home. It all works but it is still rough around the edges (i.e. documentation is still being written, the coding style is not 100% yet, a number of tests still fail) but we spent the entire weekend working on it in Paris and made a ton of progress. The best way to help and to get up to speed is to start writing and contributing some tests ... as well as fixing some of the failures. Kind regards, -- Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/

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Privatemsg needs a better maintainer
by Karoly Negyesi 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Hi, To cut a long story short, I am not a good maintainer. This module needs much more love than I can give it. For example, the 2.x branch should use subscriptions for its mailing needs but it has not kept up with the ground-up rewrite of subscriptions. Please help. Thanks, Karoly Negyesi

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Upgrades from 5.7 to 6.2 with PostgreSQL - how to debug?
by Yannick Warnier 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hello, I've been ripping my hair off my head for the last few hours trying to find out why the hell my Drupal 5.2 site wouldn't let me upgrade it to 6.2. I'm using PostgreSQL 7.4 and I'm apparently running into more problems because of that, but it doesn't seem to be the blocking point. I think I've done everything I should have done. I have followed the upgrade procedure to the letter (from UPGRADE.txt in 6.2). I have a 5.2 to start with, but a direct upgrade to 6.2 failed - database errors in adding columns with default values - apparently PG 7.4 doesn't allow that, but there seems to be some code to tackle that in includes/database.psql.inc but I'm afraid I'll have to report a problem in that code, as it doesn't divide an ADD COLUMN query with default values into a ADD COLUMN and an ALTER COLUMN as it should. So I decided to do these field updates manually (cache.serialized and this kind of stuff, about 16 queries) and that did help, but I got stuck in the modules update process. Looking into it, it seemed that the process got stuck right after processing system_update_6019() which is in the /modules/system/system.install file. So I first tried to divide this into little steps. I upgraded from 5.2 to 5.7 and that went all right. No problem at all, smooth upgrade. Then I tried again from 5.7 to 6.2. Again, it failed right after 6019. So I started to debug (a lot) and after long hours trying to understand how the process jumped from one update to the other, I must say I still don't get it, and I think that's why I haven't been able to fix the problem until now. Meanwhile, I realised that, inside 6019, there were a few queries that didn't make it with PostgreSQL 7.4. Notably, the field type change for boxes.bid (to serial) which did apparently not pass correctly through the database queries parsing functions. Anyway, so fed up of trying this, I tried an upgrade from 5.7 to 6.0, but I get stuck on the same problem there (around 6019). Surprisingly, changing the refresh time at the end of the while (!$current_set['success']) { loop inside _batch.inc :: _batch_process() seemed to change the position where the upgrade process halts. However, it only varies from 6016 to 6021, no matter what the time change is. Most than anything else, I've been looking at how to identify what exactly is breaking the upgrade process, but without a developer's insight on this, I fear I might be loosing a lot more hours trying to figure it out. I've looked into the batch table, but it doesn't really speak to me... So, could someone give me a hand? Yannick

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Desperately seeking SoC co-mentors
by Angela Byron 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

On Monday, we'll be announcing our final project selections for Google Summer of Code. Each selected projects has been assigned a primary mentor already, but there are still a few projects without assigned co-mentors. We always like to assign co-mentors on each project, both so that students have a couple of different people they can bounce ideas off of, and also so that one of the mentors can go on vacation while the other fills in. We're specifically looking for people with the expertise in some of the following areas: - Drupal Search - Security - SimpleTest/unit testing - Machine learning/RDF - Dynamic image creation/manipulation - jQuery - OpenID - Nodequeue module - Date/Calendar-related stuff So if you'll have some time over the summer and would like to help usher in some new Drupal contributors to write some awesome new code for Drupal, please: 1. Head to http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_home.html and fill out your mentor profile. This allows you to view the SoC applications. 2. Head to http://groups.drupal.org/og/subscribe/9196 to request a subscription to the SoC 2008 Mentors group. 3. Ping me on IRC or via e-mail so I can approve your subscriptions. 4. Head to http://groups.drupal.org/node/10657, which contains a list of our accepted applications in a wiki. Edit the page to fill in your name on any of the ?s. Thanks for your support! :) -Angie

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Old Issues
by Adam Cooper 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

Hi all. I just wondered what the procedure is for dealing with very old issues. I've got some in my queue that were last updated 2+ years ago and the projects in question are probably unmaintained now anyway (flexinode, swish-e indexer etc). What do I do? Thanks Adam

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Coding style update -- does the concat operator coding style make sense?
by Earl Miles 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Konstantin took some initiative after my umpteenth teeth-gnashing fest over the inconcistency of the concatenation operator in Drupal's coding standards. Personally, I Don't Get It. Why does the . operator have a different coding standard than any other binary operator? Why does: 'foo'. $bar make sense, but 3+ $bar not make sense? I don't quite get the special relationship between strings and the . operator that Drupal's coding standard espouses. Attempts to explain it to me have, thus far, failed. Also, I've never seen this standard anywhere else, not in any other language, nor anything even remotely like it. Konstantin's patch to Drupal would remove this inconsistency and let us change this standard: http://drupal.org/node/245115

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Official Textmate bundle now available
by Moshe Weitzman 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Fans of the Textmate IDE for OSX might want to install the new official bundle that I've submitted to Macromates. You can read more about the bundle in my post to the Drupal IDE group - http://groups.drupal.org/node/10692.

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Re: [development] Being noisy on installation...
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jason Flatt wrote: > As the situation currently stands, that is actually no better. When > I enable, > say, ten modules at one time and get three "Your module was enabled." > messages, that does not improve the situation. totally agree. which is why i'm arguing for core to handle (at least) the essential user information regarding module operations. currently module authors are faced a 'no information' or 'inconsistent information' choice when multiple modules are installed. neither is good.

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