Please work on a 6.0 stable version
yaron24 - September 4, 2008 - 19:43
| Project: | Event |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
This module is one of the many basic modules in drupal!
Drupal 6 is awesome but not without it's basic modules.
I would really appreciate if you give us a heads up on how things are going with drupal 6 stable version...
#1
^^ my thoughts exactly!
I've been waiting a long time for a stable 6x!
#2
Have a look at the issues list for 6.x and report any problems you are having that are not already open and that you can confirm are not caused by your own code. Getting that list knocked down should go a ways towards considering 6 to be stable.
If you aren't having any problems, it's stable enough =)
#3
Marked #309650: What's the current status on 6? as a duplicate.
#4
I had a lot of problems. Specifically Event clashing with the Date module in timezones. Plus weird issues like the event time resetting to 00:00. I went through the issue queues but they were so involved with patches and counter patches that I just gave up.
I can't give up date because I use it a lot in CCK. Date is used by cool modules like timeline (which I am using).
Would it be possible to provide a version which does not have these largish problems :-) ?
#5
Thinks will go much better with the stable version if you could review some patches...
#6
I'd like to help. But would it be possibly to merge some the "absolutely sure" fixes soon? Its been quite sometime since the last dev version came out. There are just too many patches floating around. If you can't issue a new dev version can you just write a nice summary and possible patches to apply?
D6 is really gathering momentum. Views 2 is just a *pleasure* to use. There are so many modules that are simply amazing in D6. D5 just feels clunky to me now. I think its time Event took the rightful place in D6 that it owns in D5 :-)
#7
There is no released version 6.x-1.0 yet. I do not understand why, can sb explain? I thought that once such a released version appeared, also many translation .po files would be following quite soon. Or...?
#8
I'm getting the impression that increasing numbers of people are moving to Date + Calendar instead of Event. Would it be accurate to say that:
- Date + Calendar do the same job as Event
- they are available as full releases for Drupal 6 whereas Event is not even in alpha
- therefore Event is of interest mainly to those wishing to maintain and migrate existing sites
My intention is not to stir or to denigrate the maintainers' efforts (Drupal is a community and we all have a part to play), just to clarify the state of play so that e.g. a Drupal newbie wondering which module to use has some information to go on.
If Date + Calendar can indeed do everything that Event does (can they? - info welcome) then would it make sense for the community to plump for Date + Calendar and focus on migrating from Event, in a similar way to Flexinode giving way to CCK?
Respectfully,
Dave
#9
Unfortunately finding an alternative to Event is sort of moot for me since I'm trying to use Signup and Signup Status...
Even if I did switch to Date and Calendar, it seems that these other modules still seem to be taking their time.
#10
I find davej's comment interesting, can anyone else confirm that this is the path forward? (Or is it April Fools' day? :D)
#11
this is interesting...
i'm not sure Date + Calendar actually fulfill our needs or at least work to produce a complete solution...
i just started working with Drupal 6.x so i am wondering if i should go back to 5...
what is everyone else doing for a solution?
http://VanGeorge.com
#12
Since event views doesn't seem to be going anywhere, I actually looked into using date + calendar at one point. I'm sorry to say that no, they don't replace event, especially when it comes to the user interface and code.
#13
There is a discussion on Date+Calendar and Events comparison at http://groups.drupal.org/node/3598 since year 2007. Having both Date+Calendar and Events confuses many people on which one to use. og_calendar was one reason for using events, but now it is possible to create it with Date+calendar like in http://groups.drupal.org/node/3598 and http://agaric.com/note/drupal-calendar-implemenation-organic-groups-date... . It looks like many functionalities of Date+Calendar and Events are currently overlapping. If Events is not improving and not becoming stable, maybe we should add the specific features, which shadysamir mentioned, to Date+Calendar and switch to there.
#14
On my site the Views and Event modules are all working without problems.
http://openwaterswimming.eu/node/271 gives a view of all the upcoming events where one can select by taxonomy term and/or by date.
Please declare the version stabel and move on.
Drupal 6.11 bluemarine theme
Event 6.x-2.x-dev
Views 6.x-2.5
and a lot more modules
#15
subcribing
#16
The most important features, IMO, that need to be ported into date are:
1. The event user interafce ajax checkboxes of (have time) and (have end date).
2. The event module object available for coding. Take a look at var_dump of an event object in an event node, especially the has_time and has_end_date values which have been extremely helpful in theming.
Event Object (event module)
["event"]=>array(19) {
["start"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["end"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["start_exploded"]=>
array(6) {
["year"]=>
int(2009)
["month"]=>
string(2) "05"
["day"]=>
string(2) "04"
["hour"]=>
string(2) "19"
["minute"]=>
string(2) "00"
["second"]=>
string(2) "00"
}
["end_exploded"]=>
array(6) {
["year"]=>
int(2009)
["month"]=>
string(2) "05"
["day"]=>
string(2) "04"
["hour"]=>
string(2) "19"
["minute"]=>
string(2) "00"
["second"]=>
string(2) "00"
}
["start_orig"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["end_orig"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["timezone"]=>
string(1) "8"
["offset"]=>
string(8) "02:00:00"
["offset_dst"]=>
string(8) "03:00:00"
["dst_region"]=>
string(1) "1"
["has_time"]=>
string(1) "1"
["has_end_date"]=>
string(1) "0"
["start_utc"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
["start_user"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
["start_site"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["end_utc"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
["end_user"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 16:00:00"
["end_site"]=>
string(19) "2009-05-04 19:00:00"
["node_type"]=>
string(5) "event"
}
#17
For those wanting Views 2 integration with Event, I've submitted some code at http://drupal.org/node/484364.