How Trellon gave back to Drupal (April 2007)
http://www.trellon.com/ 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 apoptosis 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 two modules: http://drupal.org/project/teleport "This module is intended for administrators who have to jump around to specific pages while managing Drupal sites. It's a hotkey- activated launcher utility inspired by Quicksilver. A configurable hotkey (Ctrl-T by default) brings up the dialog. Type in any part of the title or path of the page and an autocompleted list of possibilities will pop up. Unlike many other dynamic search modules, Teleport searches titles and paths of system pages as well as node titles." http://drupal.org/project/evoca_ms "EMS (Evoca Media Services) allows web sites to add user-generated audio content using any telephone, a Flash Recorder, and uploading audio files and then delivers that audio content using customizable Flash Players or downloads, which are delivered back through a Web Service." We also did a small project with the webform.module, which allowed us to submit a healthy number of patches. A good amount were committed: Typos and other random comments http://drupal.org/node/238958 pagebreak gets saved as submitted_data http://drupal.org/node/239336 Users editing webform link doesn't exist http://drupal.org/node/219181 Store saved sid in form values for additional processing http://drupal.org/node/240455 Increase webform_component.name to 255 http://drupal.org/node/241319 Change description from textfield and remove limit http://drupal.org/node/241577 And a few are still under discussion, testing, and rework: form is still displayed even if max number exceeded http://drupal.org/node/239751 No permission for 'take webform' http://drupal.org/node/239343 Limit to submissions, strange default behaviour http://drupal.org/node/240449 Patch adding save draft feature http://drupal.org/node/226907 Allow back and next buttons to customised http://drupal.org/node/241523 webforms filter system for descriptions doesn't work with tinymce correctly http://drupal.org/node/243322 incorrect file extensions are displayed by file upload http://drupal.org/node/247131 Until next month, superfriends, Develop Drupal Daringly! http://www.trellon.com/ -- Morbus Iff ( take your rosaries off my ovaries ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Enjoy: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.videounderbelly.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus
On Thursday 01 May 2008 07:53:28 Morbus Iff wrote:
We also did a small project with the webform.module, which allowed us to submit a healthy number of patches. A good amount were committed:
Hey, Morbus.... A year or so ago, I contributed a feature patch to webform.module that allows the outbound emails to include (parametrically) the value of any other field in their subject lines. This is very useful if you're sending the webform emails to an automated response system. In our case, we are using Request Tracker (RT) for trouble tickets, and the feature allows webform.module to append to existing tickets or create new ones with nice behavior. In other cases, you might use a procmail recipe or similar to auto-sort the webform emails based on the value of a field that appears in the subject line. Or it can just make the subject line more meaningful to a receiving human. :-) In any case, the code has been in production on our corporate site for a couple of years in Drupal 4.7 and 5.x. In the next month or so, I'll be porting it to Drupal 6.x, but that's not done yet. When I originally created the patch, I offered it as a contrib back into the project issues queue, but nobody ever responded yes or no as to whether there was interest. Is this something that would be of interest if I contrib it again for Drupal 6, or should I just consider this an "internal only" fork and keep it to myself? Kind regards, Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney (Drupal user "Syscrusher") syscrusher@4th.com
Hey, Morbus....
Sup. Long time.
A year or so ago, I contributed a feature patch to webform.module that allows the outbound emails to include (parametrically) the value of any other field in their subject lines. This is very useful if you're sending the webform
Is this something that would be of interest if I contrib it again for Drupal 6, or should I just consider this an "internal only" fork and keep it to myself?
I don't have any immediate need or plan to use such a patch, but I can certainly see the benefits of having it as a feature, sure. -- Morbus Iff ( god less america ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Enjoy: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.videounderbelly.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus
On Thursday 01 May 2008 11:21:47 Morbus Iff wrote:
Sup. Long time.
Yeah, I'm just this week finishing up a three-year stint as CTO of a nonprofit, which has been a 10-15 hour/week job. Great challenge, but I'm glad to be done! That was sucking up most of the time I otherwise would have put into Drupal. I'm eager to be back into my Drupal projects!
I don't have any immediate need or plan to use such a patch, but I can certainly see the benefits of having it as a feature, sure.
Okay, I'll file a contrib and let you know when it's ready to go. I have some higher-priority work with Links Package ahead of this in the queue, but I just wanted to see if, in principle, it was something of interest. Thanks. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney (Drupal user "Syscrusher") syscrusher@4th.com
It should be updated to use Token (if it doesn't already). (Disclaimer, I haven't looked at your patch, and have never, in fact, looked in the webform.module, so ignore me if I'm just putting my foot in my mouth...) Aaron Syscrusher wrote:
A year or so ago, I contributed a feature patch to webform.module that allows the outbound emails to include (parametrically) the value of any other field in their subject lines.
On Thursday 01 May 2008 12:49:25 Aaron Winborn wrote:
It should be updated to use Token (if it doesn't already). (Disclaimer, I haven't looked at your patch, and have never, in fact, looked in the webform.module, so ignore me if I'm just putting my foot in my mouth...)
I'm not familiar with Token, but I'll look into it before I do the recode for D6. Thanks for the tip. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney (Drupal user "Syscrusher") syscrusher@4th.com
Thanks Trellon. Such an overview is fun and interesting. :-) On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:53 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 apoptosis 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 two modules:
http://drupal.org/project/teleport "This module is intended for administrators who have to jump around to specific pages while managing Drupal sites. It's a hotkey- activated launcher utility inspired by Quicksilver. A configurable hotkey (Ctrl-T by default) brings up the dialog. Type in any part of the title or path of the page and an autocompleted list of possibilities will pop up. Unlike many other dynamic search modules, Teleport searches titles and paths of system pages as well as node titles."
http://drupal.org/project/evoca_ms "EMS (Evoca Media Services) allows web sites to add user-generated audio content using any telephone, a Flash Recorder, and uploading audio files and then delivers that audio content using customizable Flash Players or downloads, which are delivered back through a Web Service."
We also did a small project with the webform.module, which allowed us to submit a healthy number of patches. A good amount were committed:
Typos and other random comments http://drupal.org/node/238958
pagebreak gets saved as submitted_data http://drupal.org/node/239336
Users editing webform link doesn't exist http://drupal.org/node/219181
Store saved sid in form values for additional processing http://drupal.org/node/240455
Increase webform_component.name to 255 http://drupal.org/node/241319
Change description from textfield and remove limit http://drupal.org/node/241577
And a few are still under discussion, testing, and rework:
form is still displayed even if max number exceeded http://drupal.org/node/239751
No permission for 'take webform' http://drupal.org/node/239343
Limit to submissions, strange default behaviour http://drupal.org/node/240449
Patch adding save draft feature http://drupal.org/node/226907
Allow back and next buttons to customised http://drupal.org/node/241523
webforms filter system for descriptions doesn't work with tinymce correctly http://drupal.org/node/243322
incorrect file extensions are displayed by file upload http://drupal.org/node/247131
Until next month, superfriends, Develop Drupal Daringly! http://www.trellon.com/
-- Morbus Iff ( take your rosaries off my ovaries ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Enjoy: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.videounderbelly.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/
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