[consulting] Drupal Certification and Requirements

[Resnick, Paul]

Can you provide samples of some of the requirements documents you've
been referring to in recent posts (black box acceptance tests, etc.)? Or
a citation to a book, article, or website that describes them in some
detail? I'm teaching a course where students basically do drupal
consulting projects, and something like that could potentially useful in
guiding the students. 

(The course site is http://si631w08.cms.si.umich.edu/)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Victor Kane
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 6:48 AM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Drupal Certification and Requirements
> 
> ... and a Happy New Year!
> 
> Why Drupal's active community holds the secret to why Drupal quality 
> rocks in a demanding situation, and how consultants can shine along 
> with it.
> 
> Yesterday, I had an informal online status meeting with a client, on a

> site with medium to large demands on Drupal configuration and 
> customization.
> 
> Together with the client, we had written black box acceptance tests 
> for the user stories implemented in this iteration.
> 
> The client had run the tests the day before, and due to holiday 
> festivities I had been unable to see the results.
> 
> The client had spruced up one of the Taxonomy lists before running the

> tests and so discovered two problems:
> 
> * a views bug in which the first taxonomy term was not appearing in a 
> filter
> * a pathauto bug, which was producing an error message and breaking a 
> number of pages
> 
> The fact that the issue queues on both modules had beaten us to the 
> situation (one in a matter of only days) is only possible due to the 
> fantastic high participation rate of the community itself, the only 
> guarantee for quality, and is the real reason why Drupal rocks.
> 
> I was able to find the problems and apply patches in a matter of 
> minutes (less than half an hour for both) just by visiting the issue 
> queue of each module:
> 
> fixed http://drupal.org/node/199675 ; and a pathauto bug (include 
> access for pathauto_cleanstring function) was discovered and fixed - 
> http://drupal.org/node/194669
> 
> So, maybe include in this costly documentation that is going to be 
> written a case history of how to use the issue queue in a busy 
> community without which no amount of documentation is going to solve 
> anything.
> 
> saludos,
> 
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
> 
> 
> On Dec 25, 2007 10:35 PM, Kieran Lal < kieran at civicspacelabs.org 
> <mailto:kieran at civicspacelabs.org> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Merry Christmas!
> 	
> 	Mark Shuttleworth has an interesting take on community approach
to 
> commercial training materials:
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/134
> 	
> 	It's an interesting approach to how to meet the need for a huge 
> investment in training materials.  Drupal documentation currently has 
> 2400 book pages of CC licensed content.  Steven Peck has already 
> aggregated and distributed a "Getting started" book using some of this

> material.
> 	
> 	Djun Kim has explained on the documentation list how we could
extract 
> content from the handbooks into an open format for book publishing.
> 	
> 	If you read into the comments, you'll see that Mark is
explicitly 
> targeting the LPI certifications.  We learned earlier in this thread 
> those costs were about 400K.  I think collaboration with the 
> documentation team and use of open standards and open licenses is an 
> exciting model for training more people to use Drupal.
> 	
> 	Cheers,
> 	Kieran
> 	
> 	
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