Pushtape Testing, Development & Workflow

The demo works really well and looks similar to bandcamp which is really cool. The only thing I didn't see was that the track doesn't actually load in a player. Rather it displays as a link back to the song on my bandcamp site. Also where can I download this distro to test on localhost? Totally rad stuff man!

Thanks for testing! Yes still working out how to do a music player. My hope is to just integrate the Media module which should hopefully allow for uploading and hosting the file on your own server -or- allow for embedding the audio from an external site such as bandcamp, soundcloud, or a direct mp3 url.

Still trying to figure out how to make a drupal-org.make and turn this into a downloadable install profile file so that people can test locally. This will be especially important to test out the installation workflow from scratch.

...and pointed him to specific issues in http://drupal.org/project/pushtape Specifically this related post about the overall scope of the project - http://drupal.org/node/1260216

Banghouse also came up with the brilliant idea that a dedicated IRC channel was in order. So #pushtape is now open for business.

Gus Austin

After a brief discussion with gusaus on IRC in #drupal-dojo, I setup a #pushtape channel in IRC. Join us if you want to help PUSH the pushtape project along ; )

Great idea. Will try and hangout here when I can. irc://freenode/pushtape

I've been using Framework, which I like as a base theme because of it's simplicity as a starter theme. However, banghouse mentioned Omega which looks very interesting too. I think it could be a good choice, but how does it compare to similar themes on DO such as adaptive theme?

Omega is the base theme for at least one other distro

Hey guys,

Just checking in to see what's the newest happenings with the test site atm? I'd like to have a chance to chat in IRC if you guys are up for it. Maybe just to organize where things are and decide what's next.

Let me know...

is the existing functionality exported in a feature? can you run drush generate-makefile? maybe put a githublink here? would love to help drive this along! currently writing a lot of installprofiles and features ...

We definitely seem to be making progress on various pieces of the Pushtape but don't yet have consensus on what should be included in the base profile or access to a common development environment or code we can build on. Everyone in this thread is now contributing and ready to commit more resources. We need to figure out a more efficient way to collaborate.

Gus Austin

Hey guys,

Been in touch with a few of you and wanted to check in on the current progress of Pushtape. Perhaps we can have a weekly check in on IRC ? Thanks to all who have put time into this.

i will hang around more in the channel the following week and am open for crowdsourcing.

by the way i am trying to figure out how to collaborate on projects too (projects.devel.rosenstrauch.com) check out the presentation about it http://projects.devel.rosenstrauch.com/show/135/slippy

as to what to include: what stories could we turn into shippable products within a twoweek sprint?

you are welcome to use my projecttracker if you dare... http://projects.devel.rosenstrauch.com/bandstream/ this is where i would/will develop my distribution for bands. but beware, the projecttracker is the product of a two week sprint in and of itsself.

PM Software My $.02

Asana looks cool and I couldn't help to notice it's used and endorsed by Chapter Three, some of the same people behind Pantheon and Pushtape. Tools aside, we still need to come to a consensus of what a base profile should be and solidify a plan to accomplish.

Would be great if all people interested or already working on this could chime in so we avoid a good bit of unnecessary duplication.

Gus Austin

reduce this to 160 chars and tweet it around! also post this in relevant groups (e.g. projectmanagement)

this is a great example project for figuring out how to take charge of community projects and collaborate. a lot of preliminary work has been done, there are at least 3 people willing to invest energy into coding but how to make decisions and delegate tasks? drupal distribution for musicians, bands and labels needs a scrum manager!

join us in #pushtape or http://drupal.org/node/1260216#base or http://drupalkata.com/music/node/2281

we need to:
1. find a scrum manager
2. decide on a platform (pantheon/asana/drupalkata)
3. get in touch with zirafa/farsheed
4. define tasks for the base features
5. create the distribution and base features

I've committed initial code for the base features package.

Please see http://drupal.org/project/pushtape_features and http://drupal.org/node/1356858/release. Make sure to read the README.txt file included. There are some recommended settings that need to be manually set. The distro version will automate these settings. Testing this features package would be much appreciated, please use the issue queue for it to file bug reports and contribute patches.

The next step is trying to find any designers interested in helping and getting them in the loop. Then that design can be implemented as a theme to include with the features package, and I can create a drupal.org make file to package it all up.

Some quick updates:

• Official Pushtape Design and Strategy Process + 1.0 Roadmap
• The demo site was spun down from Pantheon, but I'm planning on getting another demo site up ASAP.

I'm in the middle of the design process and am creating Personas to highlight the most important activities that will be performed on a Pushtape site.

What are Personas?
"Personas are fictitious people who represent your key customers and illustrate their unique desires and motivations on your site. These Personas will eventually define your sites functionality as well as prioritize it."

Contribute your own Pushtape Persona and post it here - it's easy and fun to do!

• gusaus
• zirafa

• Arabic
• Alappuzha
• Event Platform
• Western Ohio User Group
• Goa Drupal Community
• Liverpool
• Chandigarh Drupal Geeks (C.D.G.)
• API-First Working Group
• Compony opinionated developers
• 4SPOTS