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ahoy!
by Brenda Wallace (Shiny) 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Talk like a pirate day is tomorrow, so there's still time to install: http://drupal.org/project/pirate

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Simpletest automator
by Karoly Negyesi 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hello world, I am very proud to announce the simpletest automator project. A module that helps you writing simpletests -- you just click-click-click and the test is recorded. Of course, the results need quite some love, but it's much better than starting from scratch. http://drupal.org/project/simpletest_automator Here is the README.txt: This module helps in creating simpletests. Here is what the module does: * lets you create a user with given permissions. * switches you over to be that user * records the pages you visit * saves form submissions into a file * adds assertions made from the content of the result -- not the blocks, just the content itself. Of course, the results are crude and the test name at this moment is wired in. But, the day is not over yet :) Regards, NK

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DAST 5.x-2.0 released
by Allister Beharry 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

Hi all, I'd like to announce The 5.x-2.0 release of the Drupal Automated Staging Toolkit http://drupal.org/project/DAST. This toolkit contains the core Phing build files and types that allow you to automate the tasks of setting up a Drupal site - 1. Getting the Drupal core and module code either from CVS or a local directory or tarball 2. Applying a patch to the site, fetched from from a local file or an HTTP URL 3. Creating the MySQL database and writing configuration directives to Apache, MySQL, and PHP configuration files 4. Fetching and running an installation profile so the site is ready-to-use as soon as the build completes. I'd encourage everybody interested in automating Drupal setups for testing to download the current release and have a look at the drupalorg_testing-site project - this is a build project which creates a complete working d.o clone using the drupalorg_testing profile. Feedback is earnestly desired. Allister -- Muppet Show > Monty Python

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update.php and postgres 7.4
by Brenda Wallace 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

update.php from D5 to head doesn't work on pg7.4 - because you can't add constraints or default in the same statement as column add. Sure, it can be patched (and i've got one i'll submit) but how does the project fee about dropping old 7.4 and requiring pg8.0? If not for D6 then at least D7. It's an easy upgrade path, and 8 is in most distros (i dunno about redhat)

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jQuery 1.2 is released
by Johan Forngren 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.2 -- Regards, Johan Forngren :: http://johan.forngren.com/

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Simpletest automator
by Caleb Gilbert 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

This is amazing chx. Many, many, thanks. - Caleb Hello world, I am very proud to announce the simpletest automator project. A module that helps you writing simpletests -- you just click-click-click and the test is recorded. Of course, the results need quite some love, but it's much better than starting from scratch. http://drupal.org/project/simpletest_automator Here is the README.txt: This module helps in creating simpletests. Here is what the module does: * lets you create a user with given permissions. * switches you over to be that user * records the pages you visit * saves form submissions into a file * adds assertions made from the content of the result -- not the blocks, just the content itself. Of course, the results are crude and the test name at this moment is wired in. But, the day is not over yet :) Regards,

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Drupal Dojo looking for a teacher
by Dmitri G 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

The Drupal Dojo is having a lesson tommorow, but no topic and no teacher! We're at http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo. The Drupal Dojo is a group focused on teaching people about Drupal. Every Sunday, we bring in an experienced Drupaler to give a presentation using a VNC (where their screen is broadcast live), TeamSpeak, so we can hear them explain things as they go, and IRC, for questions. Often there's so much Drupal content out there, be it in the API or the handbook, that it's very difficult to know where to start looking – the dojo session helps break it down into manageable chunks. And when the teachers hit problems, we can see them debug their code live, helping us understand the debug techniques that are so instinctive to some and so obscure to the rest of us. We've had some important members of the drupal community explain the modules hey've built – we had chx, writer of the new hook_menu and much of forms api give a presentation on the forms api. We've had the writer of views, merlinofchaos, give a session, and we've had (Kreynen), one of the major contributors to the tinyMCE module explain the new version in detail. If you listen to the Lullabot podcasts, they interviewed the dojo creator Josh Koenig about it, and they were really positive about it. And although we're focusing on learning, we also do end up having a lot of fun – in times of the irc channels, we're a social gathering point between #drupal-support and #drupal itself. We hang out, we share work, we learn! Our idea would be debugging, but it can be anything you want. If you are going to teach (please please do :D ), they come on in to irc://irc.freenode.net/drupal-dojo, type "ping dmitrig01" and I'll help you get set up. One last thing, our lessons happen at 11:00AM PDT. And this is definitely not sharp. We do it any time you can. We've done lessons at 10:00, 2:00PM... Thanks, Dmitri, Dojo Administrator Senpai, Dojo Administrator

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Drupal 6.0 beta 1 released
by Gábor Hojtsy 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hello World, http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta1 Thanks for everyone who participated in adding features while the development was open, and in this stage by providing bug reports and fixes. Also thanks for the fantastic editing of my unclear release notes :) Keep the bug reports and fixes coming, we are not intimately close to having a release yet. ;) Gabor

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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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