On Jun 20, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
4. The module notification module that Derek and Earl are working on.
For those who wish to help... a) Please test update_status 5.x-2.0-beta: http://drupal.org/node/153410 b) Please test the 2 patches I have in the queue: http://drupal.org/node/153502 (make it E_ALL compliant, for both 5.x and 6.x) http://drupal.org/node/153503 (porting to the 6.x API) c) After those land, I'll be working on making it a patch against system.module, instead of a stand-alone module (at Dries's request), but the issues in (b) are a first step. d) 2 other D6 issues are related to moving update_status into core: http://drupal.org/node/147000 ("unify module_rebuild_cache() and system_theme_data()") http://drupal.org/node/152926 ("Introduce hook_info_alter()") If someone wanted to work on patches for either/both of those, I'd be thrilled.
5. The node render patch that Eaton started work on a while ago. I don't think that is been committed yet, but Eaton recently reminded me about how important this is to further unify and clean- up the CCK and core.
Eaton and I spoke about this at length last week. We decided the next step for both node rendering and killing the evil $node namespace bugs I was ranting about earlier is to convert $node from an object into a #FAPI-style array. This is a huge undertaking, but will solve a *bunch* of issues and open up tons of new possibilities. I've been so busy with update_status that I haven't had a chance to work on the initial patch for this. If anyone else wants to get the ball rolling, that'd be great: http://drupal.org/node/148420 Cheers, -Derek (dww)