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| This is an overview of the project to migrate [[BeWelcome]] to Drupal. This is a work in progress. You're welcome to edit.
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| The BeWelcome project was started late 2006, and it has gained considerable respect for the way it's run. Unfortunately so far this has not materialized into an big active member base. One possible underlying problem is probably the current code base, which takes an considerable amount of time and effort to get into, experience that is not directly usable on other projects. So the idea has risen several times to move to a more active platform. According to a survey among potential and actual BeWelcome developers, taken in October, there is considerable knowledge of Drupal, compared to Zend, Symfony and even the BW Rox framework itself. (See also [http://couchwiki.org/images//en/images/7/70/BW_developers_survey_2010-10.pdf the developer survey].)
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| ==Want to help?==
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| Some things you can do right now:
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| * create an account here and ''watch'' this page so you get updates
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| * Drupal site building
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| ** build features according to current BW functionality
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| ** find out what's working in D7
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| * PHP coding
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| ** fix what's not yet working in D7
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| ** add needed functionality to Drupal modules
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| * Drupal theming => turn the BW layout into a Drupal theme
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| * learn Drupal 7
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| More will follow later, such as testing and bug reporting.
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| ===People===
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/guaka guaka], [http://drupal.org/user/331773 d.o] - everything but graphic design
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/lemon-head lemonhead] - everything but graphic design. [http://drupal.org/user/459338 donquixote on d.o.]
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/robino Robin] - experienced site builder (hardly any PHP)
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/su2010 su2010] - experience with theming
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/sitarane Sitarane] - Site builder (hardly any PHP)
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/matthias globetrotter_tt] - learning Drupal, can help with theming and graphic design
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/crumbking crumbking] - help with theming and graphic design
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| * sign up and <a href="/node/4/edit">edit this page</a> to add yourself
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| ==Migration==
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| Main things to migrate:
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| * userprofiles (comments / relations / location (geodata) / groupmembership)
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| ** feature: bw_user_profile
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| * messages
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| ** [http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg privatemsg]
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| * preferences
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| ** some things will probably already have stuff set up
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| * admin (backend)
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| ** most things will probably have admin functionality, and permissions.
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| ** we will need to figure out what needs to be adapted at a later stage
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| * page-like content:
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| ** FAQ => faq content type (multicrud?)
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| ** tour => content type
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| ** about pages => pages?
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| * blogs
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| ** now: D7 core Blog module, could become something custom but core might be good enough?
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| Other:
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| * forum
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| ** in core
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| * groups
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| ** [http://drupal.org/project/og og]
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| * galleries
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| ** custom content type
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| * trips
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| ** realitygaps was interested in doing this
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| ===wiki===
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| Couchwiki for now
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| ===Design/Theme===
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| * http://www.yaml-fuer-drupal.de/de/download (German, drupal 6 only)?!? not really needed, we can take YAML directly, although the non-GPLness is not so great
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| * We can turn the current BW layout into a D7 theme
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| * Maybe we want make things a bit funkier here and there, e.g. through jQuery
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| ===User fields===
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| * user/register should show more than username/password
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| * geo + address: see "geo stuff".
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| * User fields settings should be exportable as features: http://drupal.org/node/989900
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| === Geo stuff ===
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| We need a combination of geo and address features, as with support for the D7 field api.
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| Possible modules:
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| * [http://drupal.org/project/openlayers openlayers]. D7 dev release out since a few days.
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| ** tmwc [http://drupal.org/node/743856#comment-3776918 says]:
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| **: OpenLayers CCK will be axed; geofield or another module may be the replacement.
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| **: Well, [https://github.com/developmentseed/geofield here's what GeoField is currently] - it's a very, very simple implementation of a fields-based geo module.
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| * [http://drupal.org/project/openlayers_geocoder openlayers_geocoder]. No D7 announced.
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| * [http://drupal.org/project/location location]. No D7 announced.
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| * [http://drupal.org/project/geo geo]. No D7 announced, see this [http://drupal.org/node/849354 d7 request]
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| ===Privacy===
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| Waiting for D7 modules:
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| * [http://drupal.org/node/744618 CCK Private Fields]?
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| ===Roles===
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| * authenticated
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| * anonymous
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| * admin
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| * trusted - admin can do anything, trusted will be most stuff from the roles below (except developer)
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| to do:
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| * developer
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| * support
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| * editor
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| * translator
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| * forum moderator
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| * safetyteam
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| ...
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| ==Translation==
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| Drupal is based on "everything is English". We would prefer keyword-based translations.
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| A solution would be creating another language: "real English" or something and rename "English" to "coder English" or "Drupal English".
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| Drupal can't show translation links, but it might be possible to create a module for that.
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| ==Deployment==
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| * Deployment strategies. We want to have as much as possible to be code-based, but some modules really love the database and auto-increment.
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| ===Performance===
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| * Page load speed
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| * Scalability
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| Let's fix this when we get to something. With 100 visitors a day we don't really have to worry about scalability and server performance.
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| This does look promising. I'll keep cmonig back for more.
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| ==Roadmap==
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| Like Drupal: it's ready when it's ready - no more open critical issues. So no roadmap with dates here. (Yet. Open for change.)
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| # Implement as much as possible on a D7 installation at bw.guaka.org
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| #* No importing of data yet
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| # Make it distributable
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| #* git
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| #* everything should become code
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| # Start importing data
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| #* With some funky data modules
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| #* Start with data that has no privacy issues such as wiki
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| # Create alpha D7 BW
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| ===Drupal 7===
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| We have chosen to start right away with Drupal 7 (D7).
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| ====Con====
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| * Many modules aren't ready yet.
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| * There are still some bugs.
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| ====Pro====
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| * No need to upgrade to D7 ;)
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| * D7 has many good things in core that we want.
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| ** Especially: "Fields in core". In D6, only nodes could have fields. To allow (full-featured) fields for users, one needed modules like content_profile, which brings structural problems.
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| * A lot of Great Stuff we don't yet know about will not be for D6
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| ===Learning Drupal 7===
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| Some ways:
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| * Create a D7 site at [http://www.drupalgardens.com/ Drupal Gardens].
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| * Set up D7 on your own machine
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| * Read stuff from http://drupal.org/planet
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