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Data Architecture Design Sprint, Feb 4-6 2008 in Chicago
by Barry Jaspan 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Several Drupal developers are meeting February 4-6, 2008 in Chicago to work on and re-design Drupal's core data architecture. Topics will include data APIs, object modeling, fields in core, and an overlapping swirl of related ideas. Our goal is to have a design proposal for presentation at DrupalCon Boston 2008. Over in our meetup planning group (http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprint) we welcome input on what we should try to cover and will blog there during the meetup to keep everyone informed on our progress. Note that we are only seven people meeting for three days; we need to stay very focused on a limited set of goals if we want to accomplish anything. Thanks, Barry

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The state of import export
by Philippe Jadin 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello, In trying to fix http://drupal.org/node/191197#comment-705056 (allow to import nodes in batch), I feel a bit sorry for the status of the various import export solutions in Drupal. - importexportapi is somewhat dead - node import only accepts to import everything at once, and does not provide duplicate checking - feed parser api and feed mapper seems to be a brighter future, but do not allow everything node import / importexportapi does So I'm wondering where to put my efforts. I'm trying to import 20.000 contacts as cck nodes, and allow user to reimport the same contacts and update the existing nodes, all with a nice import/export interface. I think the first step would be to have standardized import / export format for a Drupal node, maybe xml based (I think there is a xml format for books only), with support for cck, taxonomy, and all. This is a very complex problem, but I think it's important for Drupal, as an open platform, to provide excellent import/export tools. Which module has the greatest chance to provide a solid base? Is there a standard node xml (or some other format) representation? I'd like to spend time on a somewhat future proof solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated Philippe

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Upgrade jQuery in D5 conflicts
by Feijó 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

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mentions in commit messages
by Greg Knaddison - GVS 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Howdy Core Contributors (and aspiring ones), I spent some time yesterday compiling one measure of "how many contributors helped with Drupal6". There are many ways to measure this. I chose to look at the people that were mentioned in the cvs commit messages. Thankfully, Gabor and Dries are particularly consistent in the way that they make their commit messages (following the cvs commit message template[1] ) which makes this task fairly easy. The full data and technique to get the data are detailed in the Marketing Group of groups.drupal.org[2] but in summary 272 people were mentioned as having created or tested the patch with the following people as the top 10 (probably nobody is surprised by #1): User Patches Rank chx 141 1 pwolanin 87 2 Goba 67 3 dvessel 60 4 keith.smith 55 5 webernet 48 6 webchick 47 7 JirkaRybka 41 8 catch 38 9 bjaspan 36 10 Gabor seems to be reviewing/committing several patches per day recently, so there is still some time to move up in the numbers (or down). Re-rolling and reviewing patches in the current queue may get your name on the list or perhaps put you in the top 10 glory spot before Drupal6 is released ;) Regards, Greg [1] http://drupal.org/node/52287 [2] http://groups.drupal.org/node/8497 -- Greg Knaddison Denver, CO | http://knaddison.com World Spanish Tour | http://wanderlusting.org/user/greg

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is this the best way?
by Feijó 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

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What does IE8 mean for Drupal?
by Rowan Wigginton 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Do you think the changes announced [1] by Microsoft could have a significant impact on Drupal's (or any CMS's) progress? [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx

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Super Ninja Question: Auto-creating user and logging in (worth +15 magic points)
by Rob Barreca 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Oh harro, So an anonymous user hits http://example.com/start-building and we want them to be a full-fledged logged in user at the end of the page with no redirect to make the session stick. Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, no drupal_goto()! The issue is, the session doesn't really stick until the next page hit, requiring a drupal_goto(). I've been doing some dumping of $_COOKIE to watchdog() and noticed that they have a different sess ID on that first hit. Then after doing a drupal_goto() they have another sess ID that ends up sticking throughout their session. *My question:* How would I give this anonymous user his/her legit session all in this same page hit so any AJAX calls they make from this same page (remember, no redirect!) will pass the good cookie, not this anonymous cookie (mmm, chocolate). Also, this triggered something in my brain about Drupal giving anonymous user's first hit a different cookie for some reason or another, but I forget exactly why. Is that related to my issue? If not, would someone mind explaining that anyways or pointing me in the right direction? Thanks, RobRoy

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[kind offtopic] How to get Windows Current Login
by Feijó 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

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HTAccess Patch.
by Adam Cooper 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello all. Not sure iff this meets etiquette requirements but I'd like to remind people of this patch: http://drupal.org/node/158445 . It's just been pushed back to 7.x-Dev but it was ready to go back in September. I think that it's pretty beneficial as it means htaccess editing can be kept to a minimum. Thanks Adam

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hook_page problem
by Feijó 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

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