January

January 29, 2009

DrupalCon DC swag is here!

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be getting at DrupalCon DC.

DrupalCon DC swag

The stickers and button were designed by Four Kitchens. Development Seed very graciously printed and paid for the buttons. Thanks, Development Seed!

January 20, 2009

Bazaar 1.11 and BzrTools 1.11.0 RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5

These RPMs are now obsolete. Please check this blog for the latest ones.

The EPEL RPMs for Bazaar and BzrTools are quite out of date, so I rolled some experimental packages based on the Fedora 10 spec files.

January 19, 2009

Creating common branch ancestry is a hard problem

One of the key features of distributed version control systems (DVCS) is support for divergent development (branching) and then merging. Most DVCS tools, including git and Bazaar, include rather elegant support for such workflows by embedding metadata about common ancestry into branches. In this post, I’ll be focusing on Bazaar.

January 17, 2009

Quick Drupal version control with Bazaar

We all have the Drupal projects we work on that ought to be under some sort of version control system but aren’t. There are many reasons why this might be the case: the small size of the project, the lack of central version-control infrastructure, or the annoyance of “.svn” or “CVS” directories littering your working copy.

January 17, 2009

Distributed version control provides a streamlined alternative to vendor branches

Anyone who’s worked with a sufficiently large project eventually ends up establishing vendor branches to track and merge upstream releases. Maintaining these branches is time-consuming, redundant work because everyone who needs a vendor branch of a project needs approximately the same thing.