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| This is an overview of the project to migrate [[BeWelcome]] to Drupal.
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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 platform that is
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| 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. (The survey: [[File:BW developers survey 2010-10.pdf]].)
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| :''This is a work in progress. You're very welcome to edit.''
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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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| * messages
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| * preferences
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| * admin (backend)
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| * page-like content:
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| ** FAQ => faq content type (multicrud?)
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| ** tour =>
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| ** about pages
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| Other:
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| * forum
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| * groups
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| * wiki
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| * galleries
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| * blogs
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| * trips
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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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| === 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]: "OpenLayers CCK will be axed; geofield or another module may be the replacement".
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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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| ===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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| * developer
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| * support
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| * editor
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| * translator
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| * admin
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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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| ==People==
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| * [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/guaka guaka] - 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://couchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Migrating_BeWelcome_to_Drupal&action=edit add yourself]''
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| Come work together on the [http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s1162?sidTB=Q-S6wMP,B48vAgYjaMIpkRVl6o7 4th and 5th of December in Antwerpen].
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| ==Technicalities==
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| === Code driven development ===
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| * '''[http://drupal.org/project/features Features]''' module for exporting stuff that lives in db into code
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| * Context module: works with features
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| * custom modules
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| ** sites/all/modules/custom
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| ** but we want to stick with mainstream modules as much as possible
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| ===Drupal 7===
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| We have chosen to start right away with Drupal 7.
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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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| ==Questions, comments?==
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| Please [http://couchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Migrating_BeWelcome_to_Drupal&action=edit&redlink=1 add it to the talk page...]
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