Sam Boyer

Tag1 Quo
When we left off last time, we’d assembled a definition of what versions are. Now, we’re going to dive into how we use them in Tag1 Quo: comparing them to one another! The general goal is straightforward enough: we want to know if, say, 6.x-1.0 is less than 6.x-1.1. (Yup!) Or if 6.x-1.0-alpha1 is less than 6.x-1.0. (Also yup!) Let’s rewrite these two examples as tuple comparisons: {6,1,0,4,0,0} {6,1,1,4,0,0} = TRUE {6,1,0,0,0,0} {6,1,1,0,0,0}...

Sam Boyer

Tag1 Quo
When Tag1 decided to build Tag1 Quo, we knew there was one question we’d have to answer over, and over, and over again: is there a security update available for this extension? Answering that question - at scale, for many websites, across many extensions, through all the possible versions they might have - is the heart of what Quo does. The problem seems simple enough, but doing it at such scale, for “all” versions, and...

Randy Fay

Tag1 Quo
Long Term Support for Drupal 6 might be my favorite new feature included in Drupal 8. (I know, that might be stretching things for the fundamentally awesome step forward that Drupal 8 is, but bear with me.) If you're like me, you have loved the power of building websites for people that expose their ideas or services to the world. If you're like me, you've ended up "owning" a number of these websites that you...

Jeremy Andrews

What We Did This Summer
t’s been an exciting summer, building our first product with Drupal 8. When we originally made the decision to offer Long Term Support for Drupal 6, we were thinking about a few of our clients that were a little behind on their upgrade plans, and had envisioned a mostly manual process. However, once we took the plunge and signed up new clients, we had more modules and themes to track than could easily be done...