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Performance patches
by Karoly Negyesi 07 May '07

07 May '07

We have these: http://drupal.org/node/109037 move users.access into its own table http://drupal.org/node/100301 Tidy up the path alias sql problem http://drupal.org/node/78503 use mysql merge tables for log tables http://drupal.org/node/65017 Set cached pages to more reasonable age (helps with performance as the searchbots will hammer you less) http://drupal.org/node/55516 Remove database locking If I get a pledge on any of them from core committers that they will get in this time, then I will reroll, add comments, minor tweaks, ensure code style -- as needed to get into core. I will *not*, however, fight for the concepts. I do not have time for that. Regards, NK

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Two new core modules
by Dries Buytaert 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hello world, there are two existing modules I'd like to see added to Drupal 6: 1. OpenID 2. Actions I think both are important 'enablers' for many future things. I already talked to James (OpenID) and John Vandyck (Actions) and they are supporting the idea and willing to help make that happen. Of course, I'd still like to see better image and forum handling in core too, but more about that later. (I believe webhick was working on some forum module improvements but I haven't checked with her yet.) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Introduce dynamic object translation API (optimize this!)
by Gabor Hojtsy 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, There were some misconceptions on this list about the motives of having a defined list of variables, or the usefulness of t() for user defined text translation. So I figured I delve into a complete writeup of the challenge of user defined object translation, as well as provide a simple patch of our current working concept. WARNING: we are looking for optimization junkies and ninjas to help out there! There is a lot to be optimized, while keeping the API simple, or making it even simpler! But even if you are not into optimization, this issue should shed a lot of light on how user defined object translation could work, and why is that so much different from simply using t(). http://drupal.org/node/141461 Excuse me if I will not tack this issue into replies to all your concerns on different ends of the variables refactoring thread. Gabor

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refactoring profile module categories (the other low hanging fruit :)
by Gabor Hojtsy 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, So we faced two "generic problems" when preparing localization for Drupal 6 objects (like user profiles, variables, aggregator stuff). The first bomb I already dropped down, and it erupted into a huge thread (variable defaults). The second is refactoring of profile module categories. Yes, I have heard the "deprecated podcast" (see http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_38_deprecated) and I know there are possibly better tools then profile module to do the job (lots of comments on the podcast on profile module!). BUT we have profile module there, so we are about to support translation of profile module fields and categories, unless suddenly some replacement for Drupal core shows up, or Dries decides to remove profile module from Drupal 6.x-dev altogether (none of which seems likely so far). We faced some major pains because profile module's category notion is rather broken. Some folks were very happy on the Drupal 5 release including autocomplete support for category names, but that was really driving forces away from the real problem. Jose A Reyero prepared a patch for us to refactor profile module categories into being separate objects. Read on here for the patch and more information: http://drupal.org/node/141419 Gabor

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How to have 2 snapshot releases
by Kieran Parsons 04 May '07

04 May '07

The gallery module now has an official 5.x-1.0 release, and 2 development snapshots (5.x-1.x-dev and 5.x-2.x-dev). I cannot get the 5.x-2.x-dev snapshot to appear on the main gallery module page under "Development Snapshots" without losing the 5.x-1.0 official release. Is there a way to do this, or (even better), have both 5.x-1.x-dev and 5.x-2.x-dev snapshot releases appear? (No reply from the infrastructure list so posting here). Thanks.

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Request for help: split up mail subscription page
by Gerhard Killesreiter 04 May '07

04 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, on behalf of the Drupal infrastructure team, I ask the developer community to help with a particular problem which has recently affected drupal.org. The form for mail subscriptions of all projects is getting too long thanks to all the projects you guys are creating. The result is a php OOM error. It would be helpful if somebody could invest some time to fix this issue: http://drupal.org/node/140649 Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOz/Jfg6TFvELooQRAiffAJ93FtkumOmCUuGlnBuPSZ4mh+4tnACfTq2h dE8dyqHWzvKd4Z3asGLBHn0= =WKyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New maintainer for the salesforce module
by Victor Kane 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi folks, OK, after months of pontificating upon various philosophical subjects here, I have decided to roll up my sleeves and actually get my hands dirty maintaining a module which I hope will be of much service to the community. With the kind permission of Steve McKenzie (the progenitor), I have created the salesforce module project (with the initial commit based on his sandbox version), with the objective of providing and maintaining Drupal integration with the Salesforce API <http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/API>. As per Steve's excellent suggestion, I have labeled the module unusable until I can guarantee, through thorough testing, that it is ready for the slew of feature requests and bug reports that are sure to emerge, both in 4.7.x and 5.x branches. There are no releases as of yet. An initial version will be released in approximately ten days. Fortunately, since we are working on the revamping of the HelpArgentina.orgsite (where Ingo Boltz pointed me to Steve's work on the module in the first place) and integration with the Salesforce API<http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/API>is a requirement, we are assured of a prompt initial release with the current set of features, with more in the works, as well as an automatic upgrade path on through Drupal 6.x I would like to thank Steve for his hard work in creating the module, and underline my commitment to provide functionality through the GPL license and modules available to the Drupal community, as a method of assuring not only just credit, but also the central quality of the software. Any suggestions of whatever kind are more than welcome. Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar

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Translatable strings for 1st/2nd/3rd/nth
by Chris Kennedy 04 May '07

04 May '07

Does anyone have suggestions for creating translatable strings for rankings? I need to generate strings for 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/etc. ideally without a limit, but don't know of a simple translatable solution. Right now I just have individual t() strings for 1st/2nd/3rd, then a blanket t($i .'th') for the rest, under the untested theory that translators could manually add translations for Nth into their .po files up to a reasonable limit. I realize that this will not work for extractor.php purposes and is English-centric. Thoughts? Thanks, Chris

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Placeholder usage for URLs inside HTML
by Steven Wittens 04 May '07

04 May '07

A patch went in that contained code similar to this: t('Some text with a link: <a href="!link">caption</a>', array('!link' => url('my/path'))); In principle there is nothing wrong with this, however it's discouraged. The reason is that the following code on the other hand, does not work as expected (using the HEAD syntax for url()): t('Some text with a link: <a href="!link">caption</a>', array('!link' => url('my/path', array('query' => array('foo' => 'bar'))))); The additional query string will result in an '&' being inserted into the URL, which needs to be escaped into '&' for use inside XHTML attributes. If you want the page to validated, you need to use @link rather than !link. IMO we should just avoid using the ! placeholder for both cases, as it sets a bad example. Drupal's past has shown that forcing people to think about which escape mechanism to use, beyond trivial "dur" questions, does not work at all. And people are certainly not going to remember to flip the prefix when they add a query string to an existing url statement. This is one of these things that was already implied in the t() change documentation, but which apparently needed to be spelled out explicitly. Steven Wittens

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Formdefaults, code rieview anyone
by David Metzler 04 May '07

04 May '07

I've finished a new formdefaults module. I'd love a code review and a UI review, if someone was interested. I'll be beta testing this on our campus soon.... Here's the text form the project page: Ever want to add help text to a form in Drupal? Don't like a field title chosen by the developer? Want to change the desription of a form field? Want to move a field to the top or bottom of a form? Want to do all of these things without any PHP code? This is your module. Form Defaults will let you alter the defaults associated with a form, enable the forms module below and look for the [edit] controls in the description of each form field. Navigate to the form and click [edit] link on the field you want to edit. You'll be allowed to edit field titles, markup fields as well as the textual descriptions with each field.

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