BoF: Porting contrib modules to D6.x

Overview

Drupal 6 is out now for almost 5 months, but a lot of modules haven't been ported to D6. Yet people seem to screaming for them and with cck and views 2 almost being ready, maybe it's time to join forces and help out other contrib module maintainers.

Agenda

• This is an all-day code hacking session !
• Introduction on porting. What, Why and How?
• Agenda of the day. How will we succeed
  • Choosing the modules

  • Get help
  • Contribute patches
• We expect to port 1 module for every 2 attendees

Goals

Although it's nice that all attendees will become known as experts in drupal module porting, our ultimate goal is to get as many modules ported by the end of the day.

Resources

• Attendees should already be capable of creating drupal modules

• http://drupal.org/node/114774 is an invaluable source of information for developers
• http://groups.drupal.org/contributed-module-status will be used to prepare a list of work.
• http://realize.be/joined-forces-porting contains the initial idea