vbDrupal 6.13.0 alpha release

[elmuerte]

vbDrupal 6.13.0 alpha release notes

Disclaimer

!WARNING! This is under development software, a lot of features do not work, and some things might be severely broken. DO NOT use this on a production site unless you are absolutely certain you know what you are doing.

Thank you for trying out this indevelopment software. Please help us test this software. Without proper testing bug might be missed before a stable release is made. So we value your effort to test this software.

In order to get the best testing performance it is best to test the software on a backup copy of your original site. That why you'll be sure the features you use are also operational. But we also appreciate testing on mockup sites. Please see the installation notes below on how to get this working.

vbDrupal 6 will require (at least) vBulletin 3.8. vBulletin 3.7 will not be supported during the development phase. This does not mean that it will not work at all with vBulletin 3.7, it just means that we are not going to validate proper operation. We will accept patches for vBulletin 3.7 compatibility.

State of the software

As mentioned earlier not everything in this release is operational. This build is based on Drupal 6.13, which should mean that all features of Drupal 6.13 should work. ONLY the following vbDrupal specific features are operational:

- the core vbDrupal functionality
- comment_vb module
- vbbirthdays module

All other modules and themes have not been updated yet. So you will need to disable those modules and themes before installing this alpha. The following modules and themes DO NOT WORK:

- vbforumblocks
- vblist
- vbnode
- vbpm
- vbpolls
- defaultangy
Instructions

Currently there is no 'install from scratch' functionality. The installer is scheduled for a later milestone. This means that you will have to start from a vbDrupal 5 installation.

So, either get a copy of your vbDrupal 5 site, or first install a clean copy of vbDrupal 5. Make sure you're using the latest version of vbDrupal 5. Also make sure you updated vBulletin to at least 3.8.0.

Before you continue, be sure you have a backup of the database. This will make it easier to reset your test environment.

Override the current setup with the files from this development release and execute the update script ( http://example.org/drupal/update.php ). Follow the onscreen instructions to update to vbDrupal 6.
During the update you might get the following error:

user warning: Multiple primary key defined query: ALTER TABLE drupal_permission ADD pid int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY in [...]/drupal/modules/system/system.install on line 1449.

In that case you should also see the following notice:

Fixed failed permission table alteration from system update #6016

This means that the reported error has been fixed. If you do not get that notice, then please report it. Also report any other errors you might receive.

Bug reporting

If you encounter any issues, please report them. The prefered method of reporting it via our bug tracker at:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vbdrupal/

But you can also fall back to the vbDrupal 6 forum at:

http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=26


Thank you for testing the software,
vbDrupal team.

[elmuerte]

Full release notes:
vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.txt (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbdrupal/files/vbDrupal%206/6.13.0%20alpha/vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.txt/download)

Download:
vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.tar.gz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbdrupal/files/vbDrupal%206/6.13.0%20alpha/vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.tar.gz/download)
vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.tar.gz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbdrupal/files/vbDrupal%206/6.13.0%20alpha/vbDrupal-6.13.0_alpha.tar.gz/download)

[elmuerte]

wtf is wrong with the forum? it didn't allow me to post the release notes, it had issues with the "instructions" section

[sifuhall]

It may have been tripping modsecurity.

If so it should be corrected now.

Try it again.

[elmuerte]

Yeah works now, I really dislike mod_secruity. It has a lot of stupid rules.

[webdzinez]

Yuhooo!!! Can we send out a newsletter to the community .... I am sure a lot many people will be willing to test the alpha release ...

[StuartDH]

Hi Elmuerte,

This is great news.

I've just upgraded my server's harddrives so I can create some room to duplicate my main site and test the vbdrupal 6 alpha. I'll be sure to post any issues and help wherever possible

Something tells me that once Vbulletin 4 is in place and people get a taste for VBs new CMS facility, they'll soon want more than it can deliver and start looking at options like vBDrupal for real CMS features

Stuart

[All4Data]

congrats El

sadly just don't have the time to test now but maybe by mid-Sept

[Coop1979]

I'd like to echo the suggestion to send out an email to the community. I would have never seen this had I not stumbled upon it today. This is BIG news and needs to be shared!

[LimeTwists]

Man, I wish I was a little more developmentally inclined.. I'd love to test this out (because there's a lot of social networking mods for that are either not working with or plain old not available for (vb)drupal 5.) but if I killed my site I'd be forced to bludgeon myself with something heavy. :|

[jawatkin]

:eek:

I had no idea this was in development!!!

I've got a user begging with me to convert my vbDrupal 5.x installation into a Joomla installation (fighting him all the way)... I love Drupal far too much... Now, I can satisfy his need to tinker with things and keep Drupal. :)

It also gives me warm fuzzies that there's continued development, so I can safely skip over the joke-of-a-good-deal from Jelsoft with the vb4 CMS and stick with vBDrupal 6 and vB4 forum-only (assuming you will integrate with vB4)!

[All4Data]

congrats El

sadly just don't have the time to test now but maybe by mid-Sept

and still not much time

[LimeTwists]

If I make a copy of my site's database, and then set up a second database and upload the freshly made copy to that.. then make a folder on my site to host a test site.. (Am I even making any confounded sense with this?) .. adjust all the settings accordingly, of course. ... would that create a test site that I could use vbdrupal 6 on to test out for you guys? Or would it risk death and destruction to my current community?

[warm woolly sheep]

I agree, this is awesome! I had no idea it was being developed. Are you going to make an official post at vbulletin.org?

[David Gentry]

Does anyone have a rough idea of when vbDrupal6 will be out of Alpha testing? We are looking at possibly making the jump to Drupal 6 as there is a good portion of the Drupal community that isn't supporting 5.x anymore.

Any guesses or estimates would be greatly appreciated.

[warm woolly sheep]

My guess is November 18th!

[Tom-E]

My guess is November 18th!

no.

i dont think theres been any development on 6 since this release =/

id like to jump back into dev, but have had no time

[motivez]

Any updates on this?

I'm considering abandoning vbDrupal unfortunately, there simply doesn't seem to be any active development taking place to move the project forward anymore.. it's been a half a year since this was released and we haven't hard anything.. if it's about money, I'm sure there's plenty of people who'd be willing to donate to get this back on track.. but please give us an update.

At the moment my site has tons of errors due to php deprecation of various functions, I can't use the latest modules because really, not many people are doing anything more than maintenance releases for Drupal 5 anymore, and Drupal 7 is just around the corner, meaning my site will be even more stagnant than it is now..

[jawatkin]

Any updates on this?

I'm considering abandoning vbDrupal unfortunately, there simply doesn't seem to be any active development taking place to move the project forward anymore.. it's been a half a year since this was released and we haven't hard anything.. if it's about money, I'm sure there's plenty of people who'd be willing to donate to get this back on track.. but please give us an update.

At the moment my site has tons of errors due to php deprecation of various functions, I can't use the latest modules because really, not many people are doing anything more than maintenance releases for Drupal 5 anymore, and Drupal 7 is just around the corner, meaning my site will be even more stagnant than it is now..

I'd advise against swapping to PHP 5.3.. If you can downgrade back to 5.2.12, you'll be able to avoid the deprecation issues. There is a way to exclude the E_DEPRECATED messages from displaying if you cannot.. IIRC it's in bootstrap.inc.

If you choose to abandon vbdrupal, what are you considering for replacement?

[michael_s]

We are working on a Drupal6 + vB4 + drupalvb instead of vbdrupal for our site. We are just about ready to make the change over.

Unfortunately the development of vbdrupal is too far behind drupal, and we want to use a lot of the current features that are just not available in vbdrupal5.

Although we like the integration of vbdrupal better than what we are moving to, the ability to run a current version of drupal moving forward far outweighs the things we will be giving up with vbDrupal.

[jawatkin]

We are working on a Drupal6 + vB4 + drupalvb instead of vbdrupal for our site. We are just about ready to make the change over.

Awesome for you guys!

Wish I could do the same, but I simply have way too advanced permissions and usergroups in vBulletin to allow Drupal to be the primary userbase. :(

[Lloyd Apter]

I'm looking for a stable vbDupal 6 for integrating BV 4 and Drupal 6.17.

Thanks!

[All4Data]

This is not available as yet

[tomk]

any idea of when? I'm at the point of throwing the towel in on this...

[All4Data]

Tomk .. in the new year I shall attempt to gain more clarity on what is happening, currently I am holding fort as admin keeping this site going

what 2011 holds I will have to clarify

Cheers

A4D
ps.. will drop you a PM