Building and Maintaining a Distribution in Drupal 7 with Features

pescetti — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:51:44 +0000

Antonio De Marco

Andrea Pescetti

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.

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.

Intended Audience:

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.

Questions answered by this session:

How do I design my Features properly?

How can I create a Drupal distribution?

How does the distributions approach allow a cleaner workflow in general?

How can I have a safe upgrade path for my sites?

How can I easily maintain a Drupal distribution?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 10:30 - 11:30

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

nuvole-drupalcon-london-2011.pdf

Taking Inventory of Drupal Products and App Stores

robertDouglass — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:09:24 +0000

Robert Douglass

We now live in a world of Drupal products. The first "app store" was announced and launched, and more companies than ever are building (or want to be building) Drupal products. It's time to take a look and see what's working, and why. Who is succeeding with Drupal products, and what should newcomers to the market know and pay attention to for their products to succeed?

We'll be asking hard questions:

What products are doing well?
What ingredients make them succeed?
How does the GPL help us? Does it hold us back?

Intended Audience:

C Types, business minded developers, analysts, and decisions makers of all stripes.

Questions answered by this session:

What products are doing well?

What ingredients make them succeed?

How does the GPL help us? Does it hold us back?

Are distributions and app stores the future of Drupal products?

What APIs and technology platforms are important?