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From: <crs...@ui...> - 2004-04-26 07:35:00
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Alright, your local hacker here, reporting in after a hard week of school attempting to destroy all my life and especially free time. Some evolutions we're seeing over the past recent time: Previously, I was looking at the project as something that would be mostly external, tying into Drupal only minimally for user accounts, while using Drupal as a backend to store all data. However, looking at the situation, it may be best to look at it the other way, to start with: create a new Drupal module that allows us to contain all the PeopleAggregator code in there. I've described some issues and tasks associated with this module's development at http://devel.peopleaggregator.com/DrupalModule . This page lists the main issue I see, as well as the four main tasks to making it work. I'm no Druplicon, so I'm not offering suggestions (yet) I'm just working to outline what we need to do in order to get a working module that does what we need it to do. However, at some point, we want to be able to have PA type abilities included everywhere - whether it be Drupal installs, or any kind of other service you might use it on or with. This is more of what the description at http://devel.peopleaggregator.com/DrupalIntegration involves: how to take an external PeopleAggregator Frontend and integrate into your existing model: Whether it be Drupal, LiveJournal, or whatever else you might be needing it for. With the arrival of a lot of people more experienced with Drupal than me, I'm going to step back from the main Drupal development and let the Gods in the field take over in that sense. I'm still going to be working on tying things together - if you have a question, feel free to bring it to me and I can poke at the existing code until I get an answer, or poke whoever needs to know in order to get things done ;) Really, I'd like to just act as a liason between you smart Drupal people and the existing code, getting all the functioanlity we have - and how we have it - across to the people who need to change it up and make it better. The two pages I linked up there are both what I consider relatively informative, but please, feel free to add to either one of them. I typed them both up late at night, my brain could be utterly fried ;) Just wanted to get some goal lists going so I could figure out exactly where everyone is on knowing how things are going and keep everyone up to date. -- Chris |