http://london2011.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/374/0 en http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/building-and-maintaining-distribution-drupal-7-features <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-presenters"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/users/antoniodemarco" class="user-name">Antonio De Marco</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/users/pescetti" class="user-name">Andrea Pescetti</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Drupal 7 allows to easily build and maintain distributions, i.e. repeatable website templates; you can benefit from this in all cases, whether you aim at large-scale deployments or even at maintaining a single website.</p> <p>We will show how to package core and contributed modules in a distribution by using a Makefile and a profile and keeping them up-to-date during the whole development cycle.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-audience"> <div class="field-label">Intended Audience:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> All developers who wish to benefit from a clean development workflow allowing collaboration, code reuse and safe updates. The distributions workflow can be applied to single sites too, with similar benefits. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-answered"> <div class="field-label">Questions answered by this session:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> How do I design my Features properly? </div> <div class="field-item even"> How can I create a Drupal distribution? </div> <div class="field-item odd"> How does the distributions approach allow a cleaner workflow in general? </div> <div class="field-item even"> How can I have a safe upgrade path for my sites? </div> <div class="field-item odd"> How can I easily maintain a Drupal distribution? </div> </div> </div> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-schedule"><legend>Schedule info</legend><div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-session-slot"> <div class="field-label">Time slot:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/timeslot/24-august-1030-1130">24 August 10:30 - 11:30</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-session-room"> <div class="field-label">Room:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/room/concert-hall">Concert Hall</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-session-slides"> <div class="field-label">Slides:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://london2011.drupal.org/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="/sites/default/files/nuvole-drupalcon-london-2011_0.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=13978387">nuvole-drupalcon-london-2011.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/building-and-maintaining-distribution-drupal-7-features" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/building-and-maintaining-distribution-drupal-7-features#comments Code & Coders Intermediate distributions Features module workflow Sun, 15 May 2011 10:51:44 +0000 pescetti 1934 at http://london2011.drupal.org