Yet Another Hours Module

A primer in community focused development.

Presented at the UT Austin Drupal Users Group.

Transcript

1. YET ANOTHER HOURS YET ANOTHER HOURS MODULE MODULE A PRIMER IN COMMUNITY FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT A PRIMER IN COMMUNITY FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT
2. DUSTIN YOUNSE DUSTIN YOUNSE UT LIBRARIES UT LIBRARIES TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION SERVICES TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION SERVICES
3. THE PROBLEM THE PROBLEM WE NEEDED A CENTRALIZED HOURS INTER‐ WE NEEDED A CENTRALIZED HOURS INTER‐ FACE FACE
7. THE SOLUTION THE SOLUTION FIND A DRUPAL MODULE TO ACT AS A CEN‐ FIND A DRUPAL MODULE TO ACT AS A CEN‐ TRAL HOURS REPOSITORY TRAL HOURS REPOSITORY
8. THE COMPLICATION(S) THE COMPLICATION(S) Content editing needs to be centralized Display needs to be distributed (Drupal and non-Drupal) Display also needs to be mobile friendly Needs some wow factor for stakeholder buy-in
9. THE COMPLICATION(S) THE COMPLICATION(S) THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MODULES THAT ARE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MODULES THAT ARE ALMOST ALMOST PERFECT PERFECT http://drupal.org/project/office_hours http://drupal.org/project/opening_hours
10. THE (PARTIAL) SOLUTION THE (PARTIAL) SOLUTION
11. THE (PARTIAL) SOLUTION THE (PARTIAL) SOLUTION
13. SO I GOT TO WORK SO I GOT TO WORK ~/Sites/d6/sites/all/modules$ git log Thu Dec 20 16:52:19 2012 -0600 3539d33 finished basic styling, moved css styling into libhours.css [Dustin Younse] Thu Dec 20 16:16:55 2012 -0600 d47e61e added logic to create new Now Open page with basic css styling [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 18:39:06 2012 -0600 0465148 unnecessary file [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 18:38:34 2012 -0600 c90ad3c added hooks to enable new Now Open page, although the .module and tpl.php files still n Wed Dec 19 18:37:41 2012 -0600 ef80c34 added template file for new Now Op en page [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 16:18:08 2012 -0600 456ce38 added new file for a now open page [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 16:03:28 2012 -0600 72b39cc reduced font size for printing to keep it on one page [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 15:52:52 2012 -0600 1b5e0d5 testing, still not working quite r ight [Dustin Younse] Wed Dec 19 15:52:36 2012 -0600 070a06f modified output of disclaimer text [Dustin Younse]
20. THE HARD PART THE HARD PART
21. CONTRIBUTING BACK! CONTRIBUTING BACK!
22. CONTRIBUTING BACK! CONTRIBUTING BACK! ONE-OFF CODE IS EASY ONE-OFF CODE IS EASY
23. CONTRIBUTING BACK! CONTRIBUTING BACK! ONE-OFF CODE IS EASY ONE-OFF CODE IS EASY RE-USABLE CODE IS RE-USABLE CODE IS HARD(ER) HARD(ER)
24. GITHUB TO THE RESCUE! GITHUB TO THE RESCUE!
26. OTHER OPTIONS OTHER OPTIONS HTTPS://DRUPALFEATURES.STANFORD.EDU/ HTTPS://DRUPALFEATURES.STANFORD.EDU/ HTTPS://DRUPALFEATURES.STANFORD.EDU/ HTTPS://DRUPALFEATURES.STANFORD.EDU/ HTTP://GROUPS.DRUPAL.ORG/HIGHER-EDUCATION HTTP://GROUPS.DRUPAL.ORG/HIGHER-EDUCATION HTTP://GROUPS.DRUPAL.ORG/HIGHER-EDUCATION HTTP://GROUPS.DRUPAL.ORG/HIGHER-EDUCATION
27. WHERE TO FIND ME WHERE TO FIND ME HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/MILSYOBTAF HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/MILSYOBTAF HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/MILSYOBTAF HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/MILSYOBTAF
28. WHERE TO FIND US WHERE TO FIND US HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/THELIBRATORY HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/THELIBRATORY HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/THELIBRATORY HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/THELIBRATORY HTTP://BLOGS.LIB.UTEXAS.EDU/TIS/ HTTP://BLOGS.LIB.UTEXAS.EDU/TIS/ HTTP://BLOGS.LIB.UTEXAS.EDU/TIS/ HTTP://BLOGS.LIB.UTEXAS.EDU/TIS/
29. THANKS! THANKS!