Packaging & Deployment

Over in the webmasters queue I have started a discussion around a PR effort to get contrib module maintainers to add composer.json files to their modules.

Please join in and spread the word.

https://www.drupal.org/node/2547385

I am the web developer for a new site that is coming up but there are also numerous other drupals sites I will be in charge of. The current setup for the other drupal sites is that they use Perforce (version system) to keep track of all changes done to the files of module and themes. Then they use a versioning module to keep track of all the content changes done on the site.

If I build a site with a feature module that includes permissions and then add a new role to my site, I'll need to recreate that feature to include the updated permissions for my new role? At that point, I've basically forked the original feature module for my own site.

Is it normal to have a feature module, such as a wysiwyg or blog, that is unique for each site? Are most feature modules that are available on d.o. (for example, the Debut modules) just a starting point to create a site-specific version for every site?

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Has anyone made a serious comparison between the features and patterns modules (they look really similar), and does the patterns module offer any solutions for a proposed re-write of the features module (intended to work on top of the D7 CM module to make D8 CMI initiative features available in D7)? Thanks.

The first DrupalCon to be held outside the U.S. and Europe will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 6-8. I’m excited to be part of the Content Team and the track chair of the large-scale Drupal track for this important event.

It’s the first time this topic has been included in its own track at a DrupalCon. I wrote a blog post with the track description, and an invitation for anyone who is interested to present a session: http://devsu.com/labs/have-experience-large-drupal-projects-submit-session

Hello. Many people successfuly use our distribution to make their start with Drupal 6. I'm as author of the project have not too much time to support it.

So, project still need your help. We still need drush developer, drupal themer(to prepare default distribution theme) and hosting infrastructure to build/test/publish demos of our drupal distribution.

If you want get drupal 7 version of brainstormblogger distribution in more closer terms. you can make donation. Information on how to make donation is on http://brainstormblogger.org/contact page.

I will be attending spending a lot of time traveling to Drupal events in September and October, and I am hoping to run CMI initiative code sprints at all of them! There will be other initiative owners at the US events as well, so I would not be surprised to see coding going on around those topics as well. Our main focus here will be around the file-based config system and enhancements to the entity system. For those who are not local to these events, you can join #drupal-cmi on IRC to participate virtually.

I am going to start holding IRC meetings every other week to discuss and plan issues around the configuration management initiative. These meetings will be held every other Tuesday at 19:00 UTC. In real world terms this currently translates to

11:00 - US West coast (PST)
13:00 - US Midwest (CST)
14:00 - US East coast (EST)
20:00 - UK (BST)
21:00 - Most of Europe (CEST)

I have found that although my colleagues all have ingenious techniques for deploying features and configuration, it is often hard to understand one another because our procedures are known only to ourselves.

I have taken what are, in my experience, the best elements of the procedures and proposed standards I have been exposed to, and compiled them into a structured, standardize, step-by-step series of workflows, and packaged them as http://dcycleproject.org

What I am hoping from this approach:

(1) allowing newbies to dev-stage-prod and non-technical types to get started quickly

I just posted a new module called Syndeploy. It provides content changes through syndication, that can be used to deploy from staging to production. It's sort of a pull version of Deploy. Please see the project page for details. I'm just getting into heavy development now, so please reply if you have any thoughts on this. Thanks!

Hi, I was just thinking about how it would be if I need to add a new functionality to my site that includes uninstalling a module.
I don't want to do it by database because I need to have all my configurations in code (and in svn).

What would you recommend?

Thanks,

Matias.

hi,

i'm currently researching different drupal cloud hosting technologies for a paper for university.

attached an initial overview of the paper's contents as pdf presentation and would like to know if you have any remarks to such a paper.

• which topics would you like to know about?
• can you think about good metrics in order to compare SaaS solutions like Drupal Gardens and Buzzr or PaaS solutions like Pantheon, DevCloud and Microsoft Azure?
• more input welcome

thanks for your replies, i'll keep this post updated as the paper progresses.

Hello,

Just finished a module whose main purpose is to maintain a map of existing Drupal UI form elements responsible for setting or listing something that could be exported to a feature related to its particular features components. It then displays a widget in that place for selecting to which feature this component is intended to belong.

Mainly functional for selecting which variables you want to export to a feature if you don't know which strongarm component that was you changed in the form you just submitted. At this time it works only with Features, but i see possibilities of other uses and the API is capable of that. Selecting whatever in the Drupal UI for other modules.

Your feedback wanted.
Matej

Hello,

I made some scripts intended to help to quick a site building workflow where using Features, Drush and Drush Make. It offers running make files and shell scripts appended to features alone, so that features can "build themselves" and additionally do whatever can be done in a shell script.

There are also plans for deployment automation scripts in the future. Also if you have any ideas for other use cases where a shell script is a good idea, i appreciate it.

So tell me please what you think.
Matej

Hello,

I'm just wondering how I can get some content pages packed for my installation profile.
There are like 10 pages I want to release with the profile itself - I guess I do have to have them in an installtion and export them and then somehow import them.

Which module(s) should I use for that?
Any experiences?

Bye, Transmitter

Modules are grouped on the module administration page (admin/modules in Drupal 7) by package, which is defined, optionally, in our module's .info file. Package, then, is the most visible way in which modules are categorized. This wiki page documents package names chosen by module maintainers, please edit it!

[NOTE - This session has been rescheduled to Tuesday, October 5; we apologize for the short notice.]

In the last two Drupalcon keynotes, Dries has stated that content staging and deployment is one of the highest priorities to be solved in Drupal 8. This session will discuss some approaches to this problem. The first part of the session will talk about the Deploy module complete with a live demo. After that I will discuss some possible approaches to solving this problem in Drupal 8 and take questions.