Using Bazaar to collaborate with other patch developers

December 30, 2008 | David Timothy Strauss

In my earlier post on using Bazaar for Drupal core development, I explained how to use the Four Kitchens Bazaar repository to streamline development of core patches. For patches you're developing on your own, those instructions work great. For patches involving a team of developers, you'd want to have a shared mainline branch, which is beyond my last post's scope and this one's.

But, what about when two to three people are collaborating, you're using Bazaar, and someone else has posted an updated patch that you'd like to work from?

Dynamically attribute content in Drupal using the Author Taxonomy module

December 16, 2008 | Todd Ross Nienkerk

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Attributing a story, image, or blog post to more than one person can pose a problem on many web platforms. In the print publishing world, it's simply a matter of adding another name to the byline or tacking "Additional reporting by Sue" to the end of a piece. (Nowhere does the poor designer or typesetter get credit for laying out the page!)

A year in open source

December 15, 2008 | Shannon Lucas

Mid-October marked my one-year anniversary with Four Kitchens and, consequently, the same anniversary of being an open-source software contributor. Because my career up to that point had been limited to proprietary software development, I had intended to write a one-year retrospective on the experience. But, as often happens, one gets busy, and now October, November, and half of December have passed. So without further ado, my self-indulgent retrospective on moving to open source development (complete with pontifications).

Using Bazaar to work on Drupal core patches

December 6, 2008 | David Timothy Strauss

As anyone who's developed core patches knows, it's not the writing of initial patch that takes the work, it's the combination of revising the patch and keeping up to date with HEAD. With Drupal.org's CVS, this is difficult because you cannot commit your core changes to checkpoint your work. CVS's merge algorithms are also relatively poor for maintaining large divergence from CVS HEAD.

Drupalers for Drupal: DrupalCon campaign buttons

December 5, 2008 | Todd Ross Nienkerk

Just for kicks, here are some DrupalCon "campaign buttons" we cooked up while brainstorming T-shirt ideas. We're releasing them under the GPLv3, so feel free to use `em as you see fit!