cod_support 7.x-1.0-alpha1

After months of working from forks at the drupal association, linuxfest northwest, thinkShout, etc -- we've come up with an alpha release for COD!

What Does this Alpha Mean?

• We have most major features enabled or able to be enabled by default*
• Patches that apply from all the various issues have been reviewed and worked into what we see as going forward to drupal7 full release
• Users should be able to use this as a starting piece for launching COD sites on drupal 7

* COD Session Video and COD Sponsorship Sales are not ready and not usable in this release. If anyone wants to help port them, check the issue queue!

What Does this Alpha NOT Mean?

• Don't expect the information architecture to stay exactly the same. While many will stay the same as we go forth, some will change -- namely the cod_events and registration system as entity registration becomes more stable
• No theme. We're using a base adaptive theme, but it could be garland for all we care. If you're interested in helping develop a theme for cod, please help us in the issue queue!
• The features you see today are not final. We're looking at using other distro modules whenever it makes sense, in particular seeing where common 'commons' modules work for us

Whats changed?

• COD Base, COD Community, COD Events, COD Session, COD BoF Session, COD Front Page, COD News, COD Paid Events, COD Session Evaluations, COD Sponsors are all ported to Drupal7! See issues for more
• Cod sessions no longer are a grid. We've moved to a quicktab style single column layout. If you wish to retain a grid, please help out!
• Sessions, Schedule Items, and Bofs require a timeslot/room combo in order to be scheduled. With this added functionality, users can assign certain timeslot/room combos to be available for bofs.
• Admin functionality is located under admin/conference instead of conference-admin
• Ubercart is no longer a dependency, nor is it included or supported in COD for drupal 7
• Commerce, while supported, is not required unless you plan on using the 'Paid Events' or 'Paid Sponsorship' modules
• Admin menu is no longer required nor included with the cod build system

There is still a lot of forward movement needed, but Alpha1 should be a good launching start!

Here are just a few of the tasks fixed in this release
#1673154: Session evaluation reporting
#1150350: Upgrade the cod_sponsors Feature to D7
#1673028: new role: content editor
#1679940: Remove admin.module dependency
#1698306: Replace node_reference with entity references in cod_bofs
#1742806: Ability to designate which types of schedule items fit into a slot
#1150318: Upgrade the cod_events Feature to D7
#1441672: D7: Restore COD Base Conference admin menu links
#1702082: Room Capacity field type wrong
#1475554: Session flag should display on full page view
#1669970: COD Session evaluation feature to use entity references instead of nodereference_url