On 1/2/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
This thread reminds me of a recent post I made "Page vs Story - Again", I'm sure you all remember. I still contend that Story should be off on a new install to prevent the newbie not understanding the difference from needing to do a conversion in the first place. Statements were made that it had to do with workflow but a newbie doesn't realize how Drupal workflow works upon start.
But they will, with documentation and differing workflow options. Page is not promoted, has comments disabled, and has revisions turned on by default. Story is promoted to the front page, has comments turned on, and no revisions.
And worse, story isn't even listed in the modules for V5 to be turned on or off even though the node type can be deleted. Ok, I know about the dynamic "Content Types" and I understand the reasoning behind it and the fact that modules need to create a content type but upon installation there isn't an example in V5 of a module that creates a content type.
Content types are used to describe any module which creates new node types. Whether CCK-like story or page. Blog module "creates" a content type on installation.
IMO, Story needs to be a module inactive by default that users can activate once they learn what it can do for them.
Earnie: I have seen zero comments from you in the threads that I repeatedly pointed to: http://drupal.org/node/104763 Story is NOT a module any longer -- in Drupal 5, we are in a transition phase with CCK-like functionality in core. We've streamlined the code that was almost a complete duplicate between Page and Story and added more flexibility along with an upgrade path from 4.7. in Drupal 6, the removal of even more module node types is possible -- e.g. blog and book are candidates here that have long been talked about, and folks are already working on an outline module that does book functionality. Hope that helps. Use issues and patches if you want to help enact change. Thanks, -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 Skype borismann http://www.bryght.com