[Imc-drupal-dev] relaunch ourselves: all/modules

[jonhattan]

mark burdett escribió:
>> We also have specific patches for indymedia, such as the ones involved 
>> with "hidden" contents or anonymization, that could be applied in that 
>> shared folder.
>>
>>     
>>>  meanwhile, install 
>>> profiles will soon be available for download as tarballs which include
>>> all required modules.
>>>   
>>>       
>> are you talking about drupal or indymedia?
>> if about drupal, is there a way to automagically generate a profile or 
>> must we go through
>> http://drupal.org/node/67921 ?
>> if about indymedia, what are all required modules? :P
>>     
>
> My point was, I think we should focus on getting an indymedia drupal 
> install profile working.  i know this needs a lot of work -- 
> developing list of modules and out-of-the-box configuration as well 
> as documentation.
>
> Probably by the time this was complete, install profiles would be 
> available from drupal.org as tarballs with all required modules. 
> development of this is in progress, see the polls on 
> http://groups.drupal.org/distributions
>   
I have not been in touch with install profiles, when I first heard about 
it I thank there was a module able to extract the config of a site and 
put it into a code suitable for installing another site --too imaginative :P
As in [1], I think a tarball of the modules and a dump of the database 
is enough to create a new site not from scratch but from a convenience 
starting point (enabled modules, tinymce, roles, localization, 
categories...).
Perhaps we are putting too much efforts or desires/expectation in an 
install profile, and the key is to have a working basis for a indymedia 
site. This base can be translated to a profile, or can be taken as is 
and cloned.

> My personal feeling is that customization for indymedia sites can be 
> performed as extra modules rather than hacking/patching core.  for 
> example, using a module to strip/anonymize info in the database.  
> (of course getting some core patches committed could help too, let 
> me know if there are any I could review.)
>   
I agree.
Patches I'm aware of are for events to not show hidden nodes[2], 
patching bootstrap to strip IPs at [3] and these old notes at [4].

Don't know if they're currently applicable.


-- jonhattan


[1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/6820
[2] https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/IMC-York/Drupal/OriginalInstallNotes#event
[3] http://york.indymedia.org.uk/files/patches/bootstrap.anonymity.patch
[4] https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDevAnonymization
> --mark B.
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