Talking Drupal #440 - The Cost Of Drupal

Today we are talking about the cost around Drupal, common
misconceptions, and how you get what you pay for with guest Jeff
Robbins. We’ll also cover Module Instructions as our module of
the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/440
Topics

What is new!

How did you get started with Drupal

Selling Drupal and the cost

How much is the technology vs the complexity of projects that
lend themselves to Drupal

Value of Drupal

What can the Drupal community do to make it more widely
attractive

Versionless Drupal marketing

Resources

Drupal.org README.md Documentation

Drupal versioning discussion

Talking Drupal #390 - Employee Owned Companies

Talking Drupal #429 - The Drupal Association Board

Talking Drupal #439 - Drupal 7 Long-Term Support

Visibox

Jeff Robbins

MySQL

PHP

Guests

Jeff Robbins - jjeff.com jjeff
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to have easy access to the README,
CHANGELOG, and INSTALL files for the contrib modules on your
Drupal site? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Module Instructions



Brief history

How old: created in Apr 2012 by Ales Rebec of Slovenia

Versions available: 7.x-1.0 and 2.0.3 versions available,
the latter of which works with Drupal 9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained?

Security coverage

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 4 open issues, none of which are
bugs against the 2.0.x branch



Usage stats:

1,238 sites



Maintainer(s):

Current maintainer of the 2.0.x branch is Viktor
Holovachek a.k.a Aston Victor of the Ukraine Drupal Community



Module features and usage

The usage of the module is pretty straightforward. Once
the module is installed, anyone who has access to the Modules
page on a Drupal site will see links on that page to any
README, CHANGELOG, or INSTALL files that are available for
the contrib modules in the codebase

It also provides a cron job and drush command to generate
the links, stored in the site state, so the application isn’t
doing all the work of parsing through all your contrib
modules looking for the files every time someone wants to
load the Modules page

It does override the template for the module page to add
those links, so be aware that if you’re doing something very
custom and have overridden that template in something like a
custom admin theme, you may need to manually add some extra
markup to see the links

The module does also define new permissions, to manage
the settings for these links, or to view them

The settings really consist of specifying which of the
links you want to appear, if the relevant files are
available. By default it will show all three, but you could,
for example, only have it show README links