Hi friends, Journal module will be enhanced to allow developers to manage a list of hacks and patches that have been applied to a Drupal site. I'm posting this announcement to devel list, because I guess that many devs are concurrently working on multiple projects, and have created and/or applied various patches to these sites. The goal is to track all customizations, so there is finally an answer to the question whether Drupal core and contributed modules can be updated easily when a new version is released. d.o. issue: http://drupal.org/node/254303 To make this feature rock, I could imagine a project_issue and update(_status) module integration: 1) project_issue: Periodically query d.o with a list of issue numbers and update their status in Journal's patch list. 2) update(_status): Add a warning to a module's entry, if there's a patch recorded in Journal that is not of status 'fixed'. Thus, I'd like to specifically ask the maintainers of project_issue and update(_status), whether these features would be supported by them. Daniel
Well, I can't answer for the project devs but I know I'd love this. I've often wished I could add a warning to update status to remind me not to blindly update certain modules. While I avoid hacking modules whenever possible, there are some times that changes in a module's directory is unavoidable and my usual practice of deleting the whole directory before untarring the new one gets me in trouble. Michelle On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com> wrote:
Hi friends,
Journal module will be enhanced to allow developers to manage a list of hacks and patches that have been applied to a Drupal site. I'm posting this announcement to devel list, because I guess that many devs are concurrently working on multiple projects, and have created and/or applied various patches to these sites.
The goal is to track all customizations, so there is finally an answer to the question whether Drupal core and contributed modules can be updated easily when a new version is released.
d.o. issue: http://drupal.org/node/254303
To make this feature rock, I could imagine a project_issue and update(_status) module integration:
1) project_issue: Periodically query d.o with a list of issue numbers and update their status in Journal's patch list.
2) update(_status): Add a warning to a module's entry, if there's a patch recorded in Journal that is not of status 'fixed'.
Thus, I'd like to specifically ask the maintainers of project_issue and update(_status), whether these features would be supported by them.
Daniel
I accomplish just this effect by setting the settings for update status to ignore a module and list my notes as the reason. This doesn't prevent update status from showing the available update but it also shows the notes about why I may want to be cautious in updating the module. The addition of Journal module sounds interesting and would be great if it was easily plugged in to other systems (Unfuddle API comes to mind) as well so there was a place to track truly site- specific changes that won't be change on d.o Josh --------------------------- Joshua Brauer Brauer Ranch Ltd. Co. http://BrauerRanch.com Making the world better through Drupal. On May 3, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Michelle Cox wrote:
Well, I can't answer for the project devs but I know I'd love this. I've often wished I could add a warning to update status to remind me not to blindly update certain modules. While I avoid hacking modules whenever possible, there are some times that changes in a module's directory is unavoidable and my usual practice of deleting the whole directory before untarring the new one gets me in trouble.
Michelle
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com
wrote: Hi friends,
Journal module will be enhanced to allow developers to manage a list of hacks and patches that have been applied to a Drupal site. I'm posting this announcement to devel list, because I guess that many devs are concurrently working on multiple projects, and have created and/or applied various patches to these sites.
The goal is to track all customizations, so there is finally an answer to the question whether Drupal core and contributed modules can be updated easily when a new version is released.
d.o. issue: http://drupal.org/node/254303
To make this feature rock, I could imagine a project_issue and update(_status) module integration:
1) project_issue: Periodically query d.o with a list of issue numbers and update their status in Journal's patch list.
2) update(_status): Add a warning to a module's entry, if there's a patch recorded in Journal that is not of status 'fixed'.
Thus, I'd like to specifically ask the maintainers of project_issue and update(_status), whether these features would be supported by them.
Daniel
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com> wrote:
Hi friends,
Journal module will be enhanced to allow developers to manage a list of hacks and patches that have been applied to a Drupal site. I'm posting this announcement to devel list, because I guess that many devs are concurrently working on multiple projects, and have created and/or applied various patches to these sites.
The goal is to track all customizations, so there is finally an answer to the question whether Drupal core and contributed modules can be updated easily when a new version is released.
d.o. issue: http://drupal.org/node/254303
To make this feature rock, I could imagine a project_issue and update(_status) module integration:
1) project_issue: Periodically query d.o with a list of issue numbers and update their status in Journal's patch list.
I don't think you'd need integration with the project_issue module per se, but you would need a way to get the status of certain issues. There's already an issue in the pi queue to provide an XML-RPC interface, but there's no patch. I think this is something that would be nice to have, however. Short of that I think you'd just have to scrape the screen for that information, but I don't suspect that would be too difficult. Adam Light
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