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Hi,
I am the Head of Development for a large drupal project working for the Department of Children Schools and Families (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk) in the United Kingdom, our site is a sub set The National Strategies (http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk) we has been live for 8 months and we have developed a lot of custom modules in Drupal 5. So firstly because the Drupal community has helped us getting live in a quick period we would like to commit some of the modules back in kind. We are going through the upgrade process to Drupal 6 so the stable modules can also have an upgrade path. From the analysis we have done for the Drupal 6 upgrade there is a short fall in some modules being supported in Drupal 6 so would also like to either pick up those modules that are no longer supported or only supported up to Drupal 5. Will be contacting the current module developers and working with them for a quick upgrade path providing patches. Our site currently gets around 5 million hits a month but as we migrate other sites onto ours this is expected to double so we are putting a lot of work into R&D for scalability which we would like to contribute as well.
I am the Head of Development for a large drupal project working for the Department of Children Schools and Families (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk) in the United Kingdom, our site is a sub set The National Strategies (http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk) we has been live for 8 months and we have developed a lot of custom modules in Drupal 5. So firstly because the Drupal community has helped us getting live in a quick period we would like to commit some of the modules back in kind. We are going through the upgrade process to Drupal 6 so the stable modules can also have an upgrade path. From the analysis we have done for the Drupal 6 upgrade there is a short fall in some modules being supported in Drupal 6 so would also like to either pick up those modules that are no longer supported or only supported up to Drupal 5. Will be contacting the current module developers and working with them for a quick upgrade path providing patches. Our site currently gets around 5 million hits a month but as we migrate other sites onto ours this is expected to double so we are putting a lot of work into R&D for scalability which we would like to contribute as well.
Hope this is enough motivation
Regards
David Stuart
dave_stuart@hotmail.com
drupal username: dstuart
Sample module http://www.progressive.uk.net/system/files/nutch.tar_.gz
I Have talked to Robert Douglass and he has made me maintainer of the abandoned nutch module
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | nutch-6.0.tar_.gz | 3.61 KB | dstuart |
| #1 | nutch.tar_.gz | 11.03 KB | dstuart |
Comments
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dstuart commentedHi,
I have been looking at some of the other comments for submission so have remove licensing stuff from the zip and cleaned the code a little more
Comment #5
avpadernoI am sorry I have not seen that you reported you have been made the maintainer of the module; in this case, there is no need to review any code.
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