[consulting] managing many sites

[Dries Buytaert]

On 13 Dec 2005, at 08:18, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
>> Generally, I would say that this is not terribly easy.  One thing  
>> that
>> I am really impressed with in the world of updates is the way that
>> Firefox periodically checks for updates and then downloads the
>> necessary files and patches itself.  The same system works for
>
> Sure thing. We could RSS the core updates, maybe sprinkle with  
> crypo, that's something the horde of Drupal developers could easily  
> tackle. There is a minor glitch though: Apache is rarely configured  
> in a way so that in can write the PHP scripts it runs...

Yes.  I have been thinking exactly that.  We could re-use the  
aggregator module's RSS parsing routines to suck in important  
announcements and show them on a dashboard (main administration page).

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