Developer

Few things can liven up a room full of core developers like the word "Roadmap." Some say it would bring order to a chaotic development process, while others argue that a rigid plan would stifle Drupal's famously organic developer community. Fortunately, we don't have to speculate! While our community avoids official roadmaps, there are ample examples of long-term plans that have been used to make Drupal better.

This session will explore those successes, as well as a few notorious failures, and identify what sets them apart. We'll also take a look at important questions like:

Drupal install profiles have been around for a while, but some recent developments such as drush make or features have turned install profiles into tools that we can actually use to build cool stuff. If you want to build a new Drupal-based product or simply want to create reusable configurations, this session is for you.

Drupal 7 is on its way, and Ubercart is following close behind it. Thousands of sites rely on hundreds of different modules that integrate with Ubercart, and it is time to make sure that they will still work when the client wants to upgrade versions.

This session will go over the major changes in Ubercart 3, and how they affect contributed modules. There will also be a demonstration showing how Ubercart's implementations of Coder Review and Coder Upgrade make the upgrade efforts easy.