[drupal-devel] Module is ready for beta release, project created...what now?
Good evening! I've had a rather productive couple of days this weekend, and a lot of Drupal- related fun. :-) In addition to contributing several bug-fix patches to other people's modules, I've taken some code that I originally wrote as standalone PHP for one of my web sites long before I ever heard of Drupal, and have turned it into a full-blown Drupal module compatible with version 4.5 and 4.6 (HEAD). It has fairly extensive documentation, both within the module and as an external set of text files (README.txt, INSTALL.txt, CHANGELOG.txt, TODO.txt). There is one known bug (a very minor one) in the module, but essentially it's feature-complete and ready for a public release. Currently the code is in my sandbox directory (my drupal.org username is "syscrusher"). I have updated the documentation, cleaned the code up to Drupal readability standards (or at least reasonably close), and have created a project on drupal.org. So....what do I do next? Is there a point at which I need to move this code from /contributions/sandbox/syscrusher/hof/ to /contributions/modules/hof/ ? And do I need to be tagging it with DRUPAL-4_5 or DRUPAL-4_6? If so, when do I do that? Is there someone I should notify that I'm ready to release this thing, or is that taken care of automatically by the fact that I created a project? What's the right CVS procedure to mark one code version for *both* Drupal versions, since it works without changes in each? Also, one other really silly question: When I asked for my CVS account, I chose the name "syscrusher" to match a Drupal login name that I picked on a whim. It occurs to me that if I'm going to be doing this much development, it may not be intuituve that "syscrusher" in CVS is "scott at 4th.com" on the email list. Should I be looking at changing my CVS account over to something like "scott_courtney" or something like that? If so, whom do I contact to request the change? (I know how to change my Drupal login name, of course.) Please pardon if these are dumb questions, and thanks for any advice. Now I move onto the "walkah" image.module enhancements and the new weblinks bundle. It's going to be a fun coding week. :-) Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them scott@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/scott.pubkey
Hi,
There is one known bug (a very minor one) in the module, but essentially it's feature-complete and ready for a public release. Currently the code is in my sandbox directory (my drupal.org username is "syscrusher"). I have updated the documentation, cleaned the code up to Drupal readability standards (or at least reasonably close), and have created a project on drupal.org.
So....what do I do next? Is there a point at which I need to move this code from /contributions/sandbox/syscrusher/hof/ to /contributions/modules/hof/ ?
You say it is ready for public release. If a module is ready for public release, it is better to keep it in the modules folder. It is your choice, you know your module.
And do I need to be tagging it with DRUPAL-4_5 or DRUPAL-4_6? If so, when do I do that? Is there someone I should notify that I'm ready to release this thing, or is that taken care of automatically by the fact that I created a project? What's the right CVS procedure to mark one code version for *both* Drupal versions, since it works without changes in each?
You add your module to CVS HEAD (that is probably your CVS checkout version), and then you can mark it for 4.5 and 4.6, if you know it is compatible with both versions. The release process if fully automated, it only depends on you marking your module as being compatible with a Drupal version. See the FAQ in the contrib folder for info on how this marking is done.
Also, one other really silly question: When I asked for my CVS account, I chose the name "syscrusher" to match a Drupal login name that I picked on a whim. It occurs to me that if I'm going to be doing this much development, it may not be intuituve that "syscrusher" in CVS is "scott at 4th.com" on the email list. Should I be looking at changing my CVS account over to something like "scott_courtney" or something like that? If so, whom do I contact to request the change? (I know how to change my Drupal login name, of course.)
Drupal.org tries to keep cvs user names and site names in connection, so it will be possible to get your real name from there, in case you provide your real name in your profile. Also you do this in the README of your module, right? Goba
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