Drupal 4.7 is probably going to go into code freeze in the next several weeks. In order to facilitate an effective release cycle for contributed modules we are conducting the first of several free workshops on how to upgrade modules to Drupal 4.7. In particular, this is important for the CivicSpace community which uses at least 30 contributed modules that they require to be ported to Drupal 4.7. Read more for details.
When
11AM Pacific Coast Time, Coordinated Universal Time -7 hours; Daylight Saving Time August 20th, 2005
The next upgrading workshop will be done at a different time to facilitate the various time zones that our developers work in. Suggestions welcome.
Where
IRC server: irc.freenode.net
IRC channel: #drupal-porting
Who
- Module Maintainers
- Developers who are wiling to make patches to contributed modules
- Developers who have written custom modules
- Users who are willing to install Drupal 4.7 from CVS and test upgraded modules
What
An upgrade document has been written for porting Drupal modules from 4.6 to 4.7. Karoly is going to help run a free workshop next Saturday at 11AM Pacific Time for two hours to facilitate developers porting their modules from 4.6 to 4.7. If you are not a module maintainer but would like to assist a maintainer you can port a module and submit a patch that has been peer reviewed to the maintainer. In most cases maintainers will be happy to recieve a working peer reviewed patch. If you are a maintainer and would like volunteers to port your modules for you please contact me Kieran at civicspacelabs dot org and I'll help to match volunteers to your modules. If you are not a programmer but are willing to install Drupal 4.7 from CVS and apply patches to modules then you can help validate that patches work.
If you have a custom module that is written for previous versions of Drupal now is your chance to get live Drupal developer help to get it ready to move to Drupal 4.7.
Subscribe
If you would like to indicate that you are attending this workshop, please invite yourself and under add invitees and you will recieve and invite that you can respond to.
The event is posted here: http://civicspacelabs.org/home/node/13752
The RSVP is here: http://civicspacelabs.org/home/rsvp/email/a9e6b562244d1f3e22c4a92f70ff026e
Please send yourself an invitation if you would like to indicate you are attending.
Comments
Credit
I was not alone in writing that docs, I think Steven and Morbus and for almost sure others have added to it.
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date?
hi,
can you post the date for this event under the When section? you say later in the post 'next saturday', but i'm not sure what you mean by that, and the RSVP on the civicspace site says Jan 1, 1970. :)
thanks!
August 20
August 20
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