<span class="gmail_quote"></span>------------DRUPAL NEWSLETTER FOR SUMMER, 2006 - DRAFT 1------------<br><br>DRUPAL DOCS - DRAFT #1 - More content is needed for this newsletter. Your<br>contributions are extremely valuable and help make Drupal stand out against the
<br>*other* CMSs.<br>Please help make this edition of the newsletter be all that it can be!<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Welcome to the Drupal Newsletter for Summer, 2006! Over the past couple months<br>Drupal has made great advancements with the inclusion of a new installer in core
<br>(see Karoly's Quickies below for more). This will probably be the one greatest<br>feature of Drupal 4.8/5.0.<br><br>In related news, Nick Lewis has outlined the biggest developer mistakes in a<br>section he's titled \"The Road to Drupal Hell\" [
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/77487">http://drupal.org/node/77487</a>].<br> This amusing look at poor development habits gives an excellent overview of<br>how to code well, by showing you how not to code. A must for Drupal
<br>Developers/Hackers.<br><br>This sections will be expanded.<br><br>Robin Monks.<br>Drupal Marketing Coordinator<br><br>*In this issue...*<br><br> * User Space<br><br> * Content Needed<br><br> * Drupal Sightings<br><br>
* We need sightings!<br><br> * Dev Zone<br><br> * The Drupal Development Quickies – See what's new in Drupal's codebase.<br><br>------------USER SPACE------------<br><br>---------- Want to tell us your 2 cents? ----------
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</a><br>---------------------------------------------------<br><br>------------DRUPAL SIGHTINGS------------<br><br>MOMS RISING [<a href="HTTP://MOMSRISING.ORG/">HTTP://MOMSRISING.ORG/</a>]<br><br>Moms Rising is an exceptionally well-built Drupal site built for a petition to
<br>help new mothers, from the site:<br><br>The United States is one of only four countries (out of 168) to not have any<br>national form of paid leave for new moms. This petition supports a bill, titled<br>The Balancing Act, which includes paid leave for all new parents.
<br><br>COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN PORTS [<a href="HTTP://CLEANPORTS.ORG/">HTTP://CLEANPORTS.ORG/</a>]<br><br>Communities for Clean ports is a community of activists proposing stronger<br>legislation and tougher laws on ports.
<br><br>SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION [<a href="HTTP://SUNLIGHTFOUNDATION.COM/">HTTP://SUNLIGHTFOUNDATION.COM/</a>]<br><br>The Sunlight Foundation uses Drupal to power it's blogs and community tools.<br>From the website:<br><br>The Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using the
<br>revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable<br>citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives<br>are doing...<br><br>------------DEV ZONE------------<br><br>
DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT QUICKIES<br><br>My bzr log shows more than 260 commits in the three months since Drupal 4.7.0.<br>That's a daily average of almost three. Thanks to everyone who worked hard<br>writing, reviewing and committing!
<br><br>Here are some of the commits that caught my eyes reading the log at the<br>Montreal airport waiting for my flight to Vancouver:<br><br> * It was always problem to change links returned by modules. We resorted to<br>
various string hacks in our themes. No more [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/18260">http://drupal.org/node/18260</a>],<br>thanks to Ber, m3averck et al.<br><br> * Block visibility is now controllable by role [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/18018">
http://drupal.org/node/18018</a>]<br>thanks to: dww, nedjo, tostinne, luke et al<br><br> * Caching logic is now in a separate file [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/67675">http://drupal.org/node/67675</a>]. We<br>expect that you soon will be able to use files and "memcached" to cache stuff.
<br>Thanks to myself (chx)<br><br> * GUID support was added [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/61433">http://drupal.org/node/61433</a>] to prevent duplicate<br>posts being inserted. Thanks to: Steve Dondley<br><br> * Your non-core modules and themes now can go to sites/all
<br>[<a href="http://drupal.org/node/44920">http://drupal.org/node/44920</a>]. Thanks to: Crell et al<br><br> * Mails now can be changed [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/71194">http://drupal.org/node/71194</a>] thanks to Goba.
<br><br> * admin/settings is now vastly reorganized [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/72284">http://drupal.org/node/72284</a>]<br>thanks to: Dries<br><br> * Modules have been moved to their own directories.<br><br> * An initial install system for Drupal core [
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/68926">http://drupal.org/node/68926</a>].<br>Special thanks goes to Kieran Lal (amazon) for sponsoring and driving this<br>patch forward. Adrian Roussow (adrian) has written the original in the
<br>beginning of 2004, Jeremy Andrews (jeremy), Nedjo Rodgers (nedjo) and Angie<br>Byron (webchick) working on it under the CivicSpace umbrella for 1.5 years,<br>then Karoly Negyesi (chx) moved it to close to core with the help of Jeff Eaton
<br>(eaton) and others. Finally Steven Wittens (steven) took over and brought it<br>home.<br><br> * Added support for additional fields in blogapi<br>[<a href="http://drupal.org/node/38178">http://drupal.org/node/38178</a>
] via a couple new hooks. Thanks to: Eaton.<br><br> * We removed gender-specific pronouns [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/75594">http://drupal.org/node/75594</a>]. Thanks<br>to: eafarris<br><br> * Total administration section reform [
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/72079">http://drupal.org/node/72079</a>]. Thanks<br>to: merlinofchaos<br><br> * A lot of properties of content tyes are now editable<br>[<a href="http://drupal.org/node/62340">http://drupal.org/node/62340
</a>] and you can create as many simple node types as<br>you want. Thanks to: chx, webchick, Jaza, Eaton, mathieu, and Drumm.<br><br> * User mass editing [<a href="http://drupal.org/node/75582">http://drupal.org/node/75582
</a>] is now possible thanks to<br>hunmonk.<br><br>Karoly Negyesi,<br>[ [<a href="http://drupal4hu.com">http://drupal4hu.com</a>] ]<br><br> -------------SECURITY UPDATES-------------<br> Get the latest security updates
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