[development] How Trellon gave back to Drupal (April 2007)

[Dries Buytaert]

Thanks Trellon.  Such an overview is fun and interesting. :-)

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>



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