Steve: I think you got this feedback elsewhere in another discussion, but for the record I'd like to clarify here that one does NOT require permission to port a module from Drupal to Backdrop CMS. However, we do encourage folks to contact the Drupal 7 module maintainer as a courtesy and invite them to help with the port or at least inform them of your intention.
Posted2 weeks 5 days ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) in Weekly Meetings
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This link should work if the VIEW contains a Block and a Page - the link from the block will be directed to this page. I've never used it, so I might be wrong. But what can be done easier is to...
Thank you very much for your reply!
I understood that I first need to create a VIEW. I had assumed that the settings were configured via the block because it’s already included in Backdrop...
I second this-- I have a module in contrib now that I just marked as "deprecated", and I removed its sole alpha release (because a fix in Core made it obsolete). Just plain deleting the module...
If there's some time left in the dev meeting - although it might rather be a topic for the PMC:
We have nice documentation and procedures, how to provide projects in backdrop-contrib space...
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I've just downloaded and converted with the Coder_Upgrade module and the D7 uc_feeds module and it worked... Yeah me!!!!
I'll look into messaging the original provider of the D7 module and see if I can get permission to officially move it across to BD
Watch this space!
I went ahead and ran it through coder upgrade myself and it also worked for me.
I have not issues a full release yet, so it is not on BackdropCMS.org. But you can download and use it directly from Github.
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/uc_feeds
EDIT: It is now on BackdropCMS.org
https://backdropcms.org/project/uc_feeds
Steve: I think you got this feedback elsewhere in another discussion, but for the record I'd like to clarify here that one does NOT require permission to port a module from Drupal to Backdrop CMS. However, we do encourage folks to contact the Drupal 7 module maintainer as a courtesy and invite them to help with the port or at least inform them of your intention.
https://docs.backdropcms.org/converting-from-drupal#communicate
Other resources for porting modules from Drupal 7:
Including links and resources for anyone else in the future interested in porting Drupal 7 modules.
Thanks Tim, really helpful as always :-) I appreciate it.