[drupal-docs] [draft] Drupal Newsletter #4 - August

Fri Aug 19 13:57:19 UTC 2005

That's an impressive list O_O.  Thanks!

Fixing now...

Robin

On 8/19/05, Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com> wrote:
> > Comments are needed and welcome!
> 
> This is my first time editing the newsletter, partly because it mentions
> one of the sites I developed. My apologies - I'll look forward to editing
> more but, I'm uberAnal about things, so you may not want me to <g>.
> 
> > Welcome back to the Drupal newsletter for out 4th straight month!  We
> 
> "out" should be "our", but I don't like the "for our 4th straight month".
> It yells out "Wow! I'm surprised I managed to do it four months in a
> row!", which you may very well be, but no one else should know that.
> People should be seeing the Drupal newsletter as everlasting expectation,
> not a "holy crap! five months! now, THAT's dedication!"
> 
> > have received great acknowledgement from the community, and have had a
> 
> acknowledgment.
> 
> > generous supply of content thanks to our contributors.  As always, we
> > are a completely open newsletter.  So good Drupal-related content is
> > always welcomed and encouraged!
> 
> Remove "so", capitalize "Good".
> 
> > As you probably already have heard, Drupal 4.6.3
> > <http://shurl.org/drupal/4.6.3> was released this week.  The new
> > XML-RPC vulnerability this addresses
> > <http://shurl.org/drupal/sa-2005-004> would allow an attacker (in a
> > worse case scenario) to take over the server.
> 
> It's "worst", not "worse". And, honestly, most ISPs consider *any*
> security breach to be "he took over the server". Because, by the time
> someone has gotten in, anyway, anyhow, they have the capability of hiding
> their tracks, such that there are no "good case scenarios" for a vuln. I'd
> remove the whole "in a ... scenario" comment.
> 
> > After the very successful O'Reilly's OSCON in the USoA, there will be
> 
> The hell is USoA? It's either "in the US of A",
> or "USA". I've never seen it abbreviated thusly.
> 
> > a Drupal conference as well during the Euro-OSCON in Amsterdam, The
> 
> Remove "as well". The text preceding those words
> don't say anything that would justify an "as well".
> 
> > Netherlands. This event will take place from October 16 to October 20
> > and will be both within the OSCON conference (paid) as separate from
> > the OSCON conference (free).
> 
> "as separate" -> "and separate".
> 
> > The goals of the mini Drupal conference will be:
> > * To meet up with fellow Drupal coders and users,
> 
> Lowercase "To".
> 
> > You are encouraged to come to this event; we will try to organize a
> > cheap hotel or place to stay for the drupal people. So even when you
> 
> Capitalize "drupal".
> 
> > Bert Boerland will be coordinating this event, if you are willing to
> 
> ". If", or "; if". Comma doesn't work.
> 
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> Did you or they write the ads? If we can, it's "MySQL", not "mysql".
> MySQL is a product name, and it must be given the proper punctuation.
> 
> > Boris: We even made friends with the Plone guys. They walked off with
> > a "My CMS kicks your CMSs ass" t-shirt! And we know now the
> > international secret Plone handshake.
> 
> Hopefully, the shirt was punctuated properly. "CMS's ass".
> 
> > Boris: I'd have to say that it's not just community
>  >
> > Kieran: Boris, do you have examples?
> 
> Did Kieran interrupt? If not, there needs to be a period.
> 
> > Boris: Drupal has cutting edge features in it's taxonomy and node
> 
> Remove the apostrophe.
> 
> > Dries: at OSCON we had a Drupal Foundation meeting. Boris wrote about
> > it at <http://drupal.org/node/28338>.
> 
> Capitalize.
> 
> > Robin: How will this affect further Drupal marketing and
> 
> Interruption? And what?
> 
> > Boris: for Drual's aggregator to regain the lead -- e.g. replace with
> > aggregator2 (feeds/items as nodes), support Atom.
> > Looking forward to the new infrastructure, which will let us put in
> > place tools to help people self organize local Drupal and Drupal CoP
> > meetings.
> 
> Capitalize. I don't understand this - "regain
> the lead"? What lead did it ever have?
> 
> What's CoP mean?
> 
> > 1) Drupal documentation being firmly tied between Drupal
> > 2) I think AJAX support will raise consciousness of interaction design
> 
> These two snippets need periods.
> 
> > - You no longer need $node->foo in your node.tpl.php, chx flattened
> > the node object's member fields. <http://drupal.org/node/24862>
> 
> You can still use it if you'd like, however.
> 
> > - Morbus and drumm both modified taxonomy API
>  > significantly. <http://drupal.org/node/19621>
> 
> Remove my name - I merely attempted to fix a bug in the original patch.
> 
> > - Prometheus6 made the aggregator module parse Atom feeds.
> > <http://drupal.org/node/13941>
> 
> At gunpoint.
> 
> > UPGRADE (Contributed by Sthithaprajna Garapaty)
> > Upgrading is especially important this time because of the major
> > security fix.  Failing to upgrade can result in someone hacking into
> > your website and abusing it.
> 
> Cracking. Running scripts posted on Bugtraq is not hacking.
> 
> > E-COMMERCE (Contributed by Sthithaprajna Garapaty)
> >   Check out this nice E-Commerce module for Drupal:
> > http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce
> 
> Parse error. Is it ecommerce or e-commerce?
> 
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