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pointreleases and guidelines for contribs
by Bèr Kessels 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

Hello there. Frustrating: you install a broken/buggy/nonworking module 'released' for 4.7, only to find that it was just branched so people could work towards a release. Confusing: You install foo.module develop something against it, then you find that after a few weeks there is a whole new (incompatible) foo.module, still with the 4.7 tag. Slowing down: You have loads of spare time (or more likely: a client/project that requires lots of improvements to your foo.module) ou don't want to wait for 4.8 with showing the world All The Cool New Features. You dont want to break your stable releases. You only want HEAD to be Contribs have no dot releases (its one number, being the core release, nothing else). Contribs have no other branches nor tags then these. Therefore I would like to know if, other then project.module not being able to handle finer-grained releases, there are reasons not to allow 4.7.1 4.7.2 etc releases in contribs. If none, how much (estimated) time would it take to add this to the packaging scripts? Bèr -- | Bèr Kessels | webschuur.com | Drupal, Joomla and Ruby on Rails web development | | Jabber & Google Talk: ber(a)jabber.webschuur.com | | http://bler.webschuur.com | http://www.webschuur.com |

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Re: [development] Have you ever laughed fate in the face?
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

whoop, posted w/ the wrong subject. let's try this again... i'm happy to work on the issue you raise there, *if* we can come to a clear consensus on whether this patch is core worthy or not. i have well over 100 hours invested in that patch--i really don't want to invest any more unless it's going to matter... :) chad >> On Jul 16, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Gerhard wrote: >> http://drupal.org/node/35422#comment-88827 >> As long as my remarks there aren't addressed, this patch gets a -1 from me.

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Re: development Digest, Vol 43, Issue 59
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

i'm happy to work on the issue you raise there, *if* we can come to a clear consensus on whether this patch is core worthy or not. i have well over 100 hours invested in that patch--i really don't want to invest any more unless it's going to matter... :) chad On Jul 16, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Gerhard wrote: > > http://drupal.org/node/35422#comment-88827 > > As long as my remarks there aren't addressed, this patch gets a -1 > from me.

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Release critical bugs for July 16, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

/ bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors assigned: msameer age: 16 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 / bug reports Chatbox logs can be seen without permission age: 2 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/70724 Localization problem age: 7 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/64847 No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 33 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports update for deprecated settings hook age: 10 hours 37 min url: http://drupal.org/node/73917 / bug reports Event Views module returns bad calendar for limit for events of this type. age: 4 days 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/73198 User warning: unknown column age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/70131 event_start not being set age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65609 Next link will not show for Junes events age: 9 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/63454 Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 10 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 Event module preventing me from uploading age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/59775 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 12 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 event calendars off by day/not respecting timezones - fix? 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new PostgreSQL maintainer needed
by Dries Buytaert 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

Piotr Krukowiecki (Cvbge) mailed me to say that he can no longer be core's PostgreSQL maintainer. He's no longer doing PHP stuff. Anyone with an interest in PostgreSQL that wants to become the PostgreSQL maintainer? If no one steps up, chances are the next Drupal version won't work with PostgreSQL. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Kind of problem - long nodes
by Tamir Khason 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

It's seemed to be a problem in Drupal core 4.7.2. Long and frequently updatble nodes are cutted (include inside DB) up to some countble value. According MySql reference, the maximum allowed length of LONGTEXT columns depends on the configured maximum packet size in the client/server protocol and available memory. So it might be a chance that nodes will be cutted and content will be lost. -- Tamir

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This is how we can get better help files
by Karoly Negyesi 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

Hi, Now that we have directories for each modules, we can have help files separated out. This way, the documentation folks do not need to create patches and so on. This is the issue: http://drupal.org/node/73809 and I mailed devel because I think it deserves special attention. Also, when we agree on that this is the right path to take, we will need to move quite some strings out of module files -- I accept helping hands. Regards NK

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Re: [development] How to create a 'registered by' field in the registration form?
by Kobus Myburgh 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

Hi, <rant> It seemed like a support question to me. Now I don't want to be finnicky or something, but exactly *when* is a question for support appropriate for the development list? If you allow certain people to post support questions to the development list, you should allow everybody to do so. Why not stick to the appropriate channels? The fact that Leo (or me, or you) is distinguished doesn't mean we shouldn't follow the appropriate channels. </rant> It's not easy to know everyone on this list by heart, and your node reference is indeed showing Leo off as an expert developer, but this question he asked didn't convince me as such. So, Leo, sorry if I offended you with my highly elementary answer ;-) Regards, Kobus >>> weitzman(a)tejasa.com 7/14/2006 2:45:07 PM >>> leo is a pretty accomplished drupal developer - http://drupal.org/node/69021. his question is appropriate for this list. > Hi, > > This is the development list, not support list. If you are not > subscribed to the support list, please do so, and then ask your question > again. > > That said, your question does require quite a bit of custom coding, so > I am not sure if someone will consider doing that for you, but I suspect > you might need to hire someone to do the coding for you. Also take note > that if someone does the additional coding for you, you might have to > redo the coding after any core module upgrades. > > Regards, > > Kobus > > >>>> leob(a)media.mit.edu 7/14/2006 12:16:45 PM >>> > Hello there, > > How can I create a 'registered by' field to be included on my site's > registration form? Ideally, I'd like that field to only accept users > who > are allowed to registered others. I also would like to show those > latter > users a list of site members that have been registered by them. Any > suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > .L. >

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translation for the installer?
by Gabor Hojtsy 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

Hi, I looked through the installer code. It obvisouly does not even try to t() strings, since a database is not yet in place. My quite is how to tackle the issue of translating the installer to different languages. - do not care about this, the installer is just a short process, only database setup, and then the profile can easily handle importing the translation and then on use that translation for install wizards - load in the PO import code (locale.inc) and import a PO file for the installer if available into memory. the installer PO file should be small, so this should not be a resource problem. - come up with some custom process of providing translations for the installer, like a simple key->value pair text file. Since PO parsing is already done, translators are already familiar with PO editing and translation, the second option might be doable. We just need a simplified t() implementation for the installer, which works from the associative array loaded in by the PO import code. It would be nice to provide a localized installer from the very start, and with the solutions proposed it would only need another file (installer.po) copied into the profiles folder before running the installer. (This is a development issue, not a translation one, this is why I brought it up here). Gabor

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fixing nodeapi : programmatically submitting forms.
by Adrian Rossouw 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Hey everyone. I don't have a lot of time for core development right now (I will likely only have time again in august, by the looks of things), but we have a problem in core at the moment. I am talking of course of the fact that FAPI only partially replaced node api, leaving neither of them the right solution for programmatically creating nodes and the like. The solution I have in mind for this , is the following : 1 ) introduce a hook_forms. which registers each of the forms on the site. 2 ) register all the forms, and their inputs and create callbacks for them 3 ) put the form creation code into it's own function, with the registered callback 4) alter fapi to not use _POST at all. Instead use a parameter that is passed to it, which merely defaults to _POST. Instead of PUSHING the form array through the form generation process, we now have the ability to PULL the form array and process it. So whenever you want to display a form, instead of having function mymodule_page_callback() { $form['title'] = array( /* generate your form array here */ ); return drupal_get_form('form_id', $form, 'alternate'); } You have : function mymodule_forms() { $form['mymodule/form_id'] = array( 'callback' => 'mymodule_form_id', 'access' => user_access('can do form_id'), 'title' => 'form title' ); } function mymodule_form_id($input) { $form['title'] = array( /* generate your form array here */ ); return $form; } function mymodule_page_callback() { // get your form input ready return drupal_get_form('mymodule/form_id', array('input' => 'object')); } -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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