December 26, 2009
The Update manager in Drupal 7 core allows site admins to securely update their contributed modules and themes directly through the administration UI, instead of having to manually upload files to their server (see Update manager in D7: What's done and what's next for more details). It's very slick, and will make keeping a Drupal site up to date a lot easier for a lot of people. However, there's still a lot to do...
December 17, 2009
The seventh version of Drupal has greatly improved the installation process once more. Among other changes, the installer has become more user-friendly, but the best part is under the hood, and somewhat less obvious. It is now much easier than ever to install Drupal using a PHP script that runs in the console, rather than the interactive web installer.
Since I have not yet seen a detailed documentation of this feature, here is a guide.
1. Build an install script
The...
December 16, 2009
Last week was the amazing Do It With Drupal conference and Angela Byron wanted some updated contributor statistics for her presentation. So, I analyzed the commit messages for Drupal core to find who has been helping out and once again the process and the data are getting better and better.
This time I'm using direct database information from the cvs commit log tables and using PHP to parse it which means that it's easier to create rules for...
December 15, 2009
In order to support qa.drupal.org in testing Drupal 7, we've made an Amazon Web Services AMI of PIFR 2 on Debian Lenny (64-bit). The purpose of this client is to grab a test from qa.drupal.org, run it, and send the results back to the server. If you wish to fire up an instance and donate to testing of Drupal 7, the instructions are posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/39942