I was talking with Doug Green today a little bit about Drupal releases and he reminded me that Dries' keynote in Barcelona discussed the last push to release Drupal 6. For D7 it has taken two years. Each release, is of course, a community effort and sprints are essential for pushing the Drupal project forward.

Watching the Drupalcamp CO forums, it became clear that there was a desire for a sprint. So, as an addendum to Drupalcamp CO, Examiner.com decided to host a Drupal 7 code sprint at the Examiner offices. The Examiner.com has a great deal invested in the use of Drupal 7 and MongoDB. This has extended to retaining some amazing Drupal talent including several of the top contributors to the Drupal 7 project. Driving towards camp, there were over 60ish critical core bugs preventing D7 from achieving release candidate status. After camp, the number had reduced to about 50 thanks to the chx coder lounge. A significant number of these core bugs affect the examiner project so we wanted to help with them.

Rachel Makrucki of the Airforce Academy in Colorado Springs shared her experiences in setting up the Academy ecommerce site to comply with PCI compliance. She made her slides available on Google. Video of the session can be found below the main points of the discussion.

--PCI Compliance does not mean you are secure.
--Document everything - if if isn't on paper it never happened
--The Credit Card companies make the rules - they want to make you responsible

Doug Vann did a presentation on Views and CCK at Drupalcamp Colorado. I didn't take many notes, but I did video most of his presentation. The video can be can be found below on YouTube - the quality isn't great--I was at the back of the room--you'll want to use your headset for sound and the video is a little blurry but it will give you a sense of the presentation's content.

David Luhman - luhman.org -- did a presentation on Git. I have included video below, but really you will want it for the audio, not the video part. The slides were difficult to see in the classroom and the video came out pretty poorly. However, I've got copies of his slides as a PDF and you should be able to follow along without too much difficulty. In addition, my own notes can be read below - they were taken hastily, please forgive any errors.

David started out with a brief history of version control covering:

• SCCS and RCS
• RCS and scripting is CVS
• Rational ClearCase "multi-site" (commercial)
• Distributed (bitkeeper, Git, Monotone, Darcs, Mercurial, Bazaar) Lots of controversy over use of Bitkeeper for Linux.

He suggested that you grab Git 1.5 or higher
Ubuntu # apt-get install git-core
Mac http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer
Windows http://code.google.com/p/mysysgit

David went onto talking about customizing Git. Then went onto discussing creating the first repository. Then went onto multiple branches. Discussed fast, easy, compact, intra-repository branches.

I didn't catch the video for the Panels portion of this presentation, but I did manage to get the majority of the Skinr demo and discussion. Don't expect any panels information in this post or in the videos.

Thanks to Stephanie Pakrul, Chris Fassnacht, Jay Wolf, and Chris Bryant for presenting.

A podcast of the whole presentation is available on archive.org here:

http://www.archive.org/details/PanelsAndSkinr-StephaniePakrul-Drupalcolorado

The Skinr project can be found on Drupal at: drupal.org/project/skinr