Port Managing News to Drupal 7

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Bumping - developers; please give us a ballpark perspective about a D7 release. 3rd quarter of 2011?

I don't think that any of the developers are even watching this forum. It was sold to phase2. I don't think they have been addressing any issues, but of course, I may be wrong.

Yeah, the last commit was over 23 weeks ago. I think since the transition, it may have been put on the back-burner...

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Hey all. We have been really slow to respond. We know and understand your frustration. I'm letting you know we are following this thread and will get back to you as soon as we can. Hang in there.

Kelly Phong
Community Manager
Phase2 Technology

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this project needs a port...

this project needs SUpport.

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+1. and i wish simple html dom parser module http://www.darrenmothersele.com/drupal-blog/simplehtmldom-parser-drupal port to d6 too

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and so on.

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@vskipper: noticed the green "Follow" button at the top right that replaced "subscribe" comments a few weeks ago? ;-)

got it thx

FYI:

10:08pm Feb 29 (2012):
"managingnews: @ABaumeier Our current plan is to keep Managing News on Drupal 6. We'll keep everyone in the loop as to any new developments!"

http://twitter.com/#!/ABaumeier/status/174595224482484225
http://twitter.com/#!/managingnews

At the moment that tweet is quoted on the Managing news front page, too.
http://www.managingnews.com

Well that blows and I hope you guys don't take forever to port this to D7 because D6 is old news.

Actually, D6 is still supported, maintained and will continue to be readily available until at least Drupal 8 is released (sometime before or after the end of the world, depending on who you ask).

Although I agree having the 7.x version of the profile done is important for the health of the project; it is not a critical issue as Drupal 6 continues to run fine and is not a security or functional detriment.

We've been looking at manually upgrading, but the lack of the Data processor for D7 is a real issue. Feeds works wonderfully in D7, but until we have Data it's going to be a painful conversion.

You can follow that discussion here - http://drupal.org/node/1420490

Why is Data critical to this?

Because the news items that feeds gathers are not stored as nodes, but as rows in tables managed by the data module. Only Feeds & Channels are nodes.

Is it possible, that for D7, rather than a dependance on the Data module, items would be stored as Entities? That's why I'm confused about the need for the Data module, I imagine a slightly different storage.

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I subscribe to this too, but I'm very disappointed that Phase2 Technology doesn't actively maintain the code, since 2011 no evolution, no response by the dev team... I'm wondering if this project has a future...

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A presenter at badcamp 2012 from i think from phase2 said managing news was "basically abandoned"

I asked him specifically and his answer was thus.. he did say he "should really know " its status

There should be video

I'm not counting on a port don by Phase2. Somebody should get in touch with them and volunteer to be the new maintainer =D

I volunteer you

I've thought about it, but I'd only be interested if Phase2 completely turned the distro over to the community. Most of their distros have this weird fascination with the apps module and I don't want to have anything to do with that. I've been meaning to do a port for a while though, as I have a couple of sites that could really use it. I have the second half of December off from work, so maybe I'll take a crack at it and see how far I get.

cweagans you would be my hero if you would maintain!

if I remember correctly, Managing News was the first Dev Seed stack (Features, Strongarm, Spaces, Context) distribution released. Followed quickly by OpenAtrium. Drupalcon Szeged 2008?

Anyway, there has been a lot of water under the bridge since then and lots of potential for a port to D7

and yes, it would be nice if Phase 2 handed it over.. there distro's seem tightly held to say the least

I'm not holding my breath, but https://twitter.com/cweagans/status/276464696759050242

ManagingNews is no longer listed on their new website - see: http://www.phase2technology.com/what-we-do/

It looks like the project is looking for a new maintainer then?

Noticing the writing on the wall for a while, I decided to jump ship to my own codebase for Catholic News Live (which was using Managing News for the D6 version)... I would love to help with Managing News for D7, but it seems the distribution is incredibly complex in terms of the number of features that would need to be upgraded—many of which require modules that require special work in upgrading from D6 to D7.

In some ways, I wonder if maybe building a new distribution with a simpler feature set for D7 would be more beneficial, along with some documentation on how to migrate from D6 to D7 using migrate.module or something like that.

This is assuming that Phase2 decides to basically ditch MN, which seems to be the case.

imho, MN has always been over-engineered, was I think the first or second real Drupal distro

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Drupal 8?

@Andrew_Mallis I say yes!