Drupal 8

[Shawn Iwinski]

Thanks Richard!  Right now my head is stuck in developer mode so I cannot
think of any non-programming items that are needed, but I'm sure there will
be :)

Shawn


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shawn:
>
> I'm willing to help, though I haven't done any real programming I'm ten
> years our so, and don't know how much "help" I would actually be, but it's
> an offer.
>
> Richard
> On Feb 27, 2013 6:50 PM, "Shawn Iwinski" <shawn.iwinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8.  There is
>> still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the
>> maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved.
>>
>> Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some
>> additional features:
>> * provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files
>> * virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will
>> especially help with the requiring of sub-modules
>> * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this
>> allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any
>> sub-module(s) that are included
>> * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files'
>> "dependencies[]" entries) -- this will help simplify spec files
>> * formalized packaging guidelines
>>
>> I must give major credit for the auto provides and requires to the nodejs
>> and npm package owners as I took a lot from their setup.
>>
>> Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not
>> be ready for Fedora for a good while.  I am doing all of my work out of
>> GitHub.  If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the
>> links below:
>>
>> Specs and issues: https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms
>> Dev repos: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/
>> Draft packaging guidelines:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8
>>
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>> Red Hat, Inc.
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