Now, I appreciate that trellon is being so helpful to the community. That said this felt like one of those cheaply made 3 minute paid commercial ads for the magical do-all blender and dog food mixer that comes up right in the middle of a good movie on TV. I wasn't expecting to need a TiVo just to read the Drupal dev list. Robin On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
As a well-known Drupal shop, Trellon continually strives to contribute back to the Drupal community in any way it can. Sometimes, we're just too busy, other times, we're just plain ol' lazy and, more often than not, Morbus is complaining about quality or phenoptosis or whatever. By keeping track of what we give back, however, we hope to more clearly see how much we are, or aren't, helping Drupal help ourselves.
This month saw the release of a number of modules:
Xapian integration http://drupal.org/project/xapian http://www.trellon.com/blog/xapian-search-drupal "A common challenge for Drupal sites is working with documents in different formats and getting them into the search engine. Drupal does not natively index PDFs and Word documents, despite the fact they are the most commonly exchanged text formats on the Internet (outside of HTML) ... [we've] developed a module that replaces Drupal's native search features with the Xapian search engine."
Teleport 1.0 http://drupal.org/project/teleport We announced this last month, but our "hotkey-activated launcher utility inspired by Quicksilver" has reached 1.0, for both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6.
On a recent project, we've had to provide simple event signups and payment acceptance. The signup module provides part of this solution, but we also added the signup_pay and signup_status modules to the mix. Some remaining requirements resulted in a few additional companions:
Signup Pay Early Bird http://drupal.org/project/signup_pay_early_bird Adds two extra fields to the signup_pay module that allows the event creator to specify an early bird discount rate, or percentage, which is then taken into account by signup_pay (req. small patch).
Signup Restrict by Role http://drupal.org/project/signup_restrict_by_role Adds the ability to restrict signups to a particular role. For example, if you only want users with the "members" role to be allowed to signup for a particular event.
Event Webform http://drupal.org/project/event_webform Adds the ability to relate a webform to an event. This is particularly useful for letting users include requirements for the event (do they want lunch, a room, pickup at airport, etc.)
A healthy number of patches were also contributed, plus one for core:
Drupal core: Allow new comment timestamp to be passed http://drupal.org/node/253577
constant_contact: subscriptions.module integration http://drupal.org/node/263691
link: Extra url parameters http://drupal.org/node/256490
mailhandler: Dies if command line found with no command http://drupal.org/node/253906
services: XMLRPC server does not honor optional parameters http://drupal.org/node/179848
signup_pay: various typos http://drupal.org/node/260066 http://drupal.org/node/260524
signup_pay: Add new status code link doesn't show correctly http://drupal.org/node/260527
signup_pay: Role weights errors http://drupal.org/node/260539
signup_pay: Allow other modules to change payment amounts http://drupal.org/node/263575
usernode: add user roles as a viewable field within views http://drupal.org/node/260780
Until next month, superfriends, Develop Drupal Daringly!
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