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Classified Ads 3.0 Release Candidate 2

La nouvelle intégration CTools/Panels dans Classified Ads 3.0 RC2

The winter holiday season saw a flurry of activity on Classified Ads 3.0, for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 branches.

As of today 2011-12-26, there is not a single active bug or untended support request remaining, allowing Release Candidate 2 to be published: Classified Ads RC2 is released !

Classified Ads 3.0 Release Candidate 1

Illustrations des nouveautés de Classified Ads 3.0 RC1

At long last, the Drupal Classified Ads module has reached Release Candidate status.

RC1 Releases 6.x-3.0-rc1 and 7.x-3.0-rc1 were published today and include:

New Classified Ads project page

Nouvelle home page du projet Classified Ads

In preparation for the final release of Classified Ads 3 for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, the Classified Ads project page on Drupal.org has been completely rewritten by st4t0 to make the purpose and features of the module clearer to new users.

Have a look at it and tell us what we could still improve !

Classified Ads merged back to Drupal.org, patches upcoming

The classified fork of module Classified Ads, originally maintained here, is now back to drupal.org as branch 6.x-3.x of the module.

All 5.x features requests have been updated to 6.x-3.x, and bug triaging will be coming next, to check what is still relevant these days and what was just needed because of 5.x limitations.

The goal is to have a clean-again issue queue by mid-August 2011n, possibly with some new features.

Classified Ads heads back to drupal.org

The Drupal Classified Ads module was initially developed in 2010 as a fork off the drupal.org ed_classified module and evolved separately since then, while ed_classified did not.

The existing ed_classified maintainer recently agreed to let OSInet integrate back Classified Ads into the ed_classified project, as branch 6.x-3.x. This means sites will no longer need to choose and will be able to rely on a single version once again.

Advanced Help in Munin API

The latest update in Munin API master branch includes online help in Drupal advanced_help format.

It includes:

a brief explanation of how the Munin API, Munin, RRDtool and MRTG relate
an intro to the hooks you will need to implement to create your own Munin API graph providers
an explanation of the difference between Munin API graph providers and straight Munin plugins

Comments are opened on this post: feel free to tell us what extra help you would like to see.

Munin installation tips

What to do if your Drupal Munin graphs do not appear ?

Assuming the module was installed and the plugin configured as recommended, all should go well.

However, in some cases, munin-node will start before Apache (or whichever web server you are using) is ready. In such cases, using the default web-based plugin provided in (module)/plugins/munin-drupal will receive a connection error, and be unable to provide munin-node with the needed config information.

Memory vs Hits: the APC plugin split

Until today, the Munin APC plugin for Drupal displayed SMA and Cache info on the same graph, meaning RAM allocation and use coexisted with hit-related indicators, like the number of hits, misses, insertions and deletions.

In most cases, this proved to be a not-so-good idea:

Business logic application monitoring

Most Drupal enterprise-class applications and web sites have business-specific quantities to measure: the Munin API plugin offers a very simple way to write your own plugin, to monitor exactly the quantities needed for your marketing or quality purposes.

Munin API or http://drupal.org/project/munin ?

Sample output from the drupal.org Munin plugin

Another Munin plugin exists on drupal.org. The OSInet plugin is an independent implementation, not derived from the existing project, and strongly differing in architectural choices:

OSInet

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