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[Robin Monks]

------------DRUPAL NEWSLETTER FOR SUMMER, 2006 - DRAFT 1------------

DRUPAL DOCS - DRAFT #1 - More content is needed for this newsletter.  Your
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Welcome to the Drupal Newsletter for Summer, 2006!  Over the past couple
months
Drupal has made great advancements with the inclusion of a new installer in
core
(see Karoly's Quickies below for more).  This will probably be the one
greatest
feature of Drupal 4.8/5.0.

In related news, Nick Lewis has outlined the biggest developer mistakes in a
section he's titled \"The Road to Drupal Hell\" [
http://drupal.org/node/77487].
This amusing look at poor development habits gives an excellent overview of
how to code well, by showing you how not to code.  A must for Drupal
Developers/Hackers.

This sections will be expanded.

Robin Monks.
Drupal Marketing Coordinator

*In this issue...*

  * User Space

  * Content Needed

  * Drupal Sightings

  * We need sightings!

  * Dev Zone

  * The Drupal Development Quickies – See what's new in Drupal's codebase.

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------------DRUPAL SIGHTINGS------------

MOMS RISING [HTTP://MOMSRISING.ORG/]

Moms Rising is an exceptionally well-built Drupal site built for a petition
to
help new mothers, from the site:

The United States is one of only four countries (out of 168) to not have any
national form of paid leave for new moms. This petition supports a bill,
titled
The Balancing Act, which includes paid leave for all new parents.

COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN PORTS [HTTP://CLEANPORTS.ORG/]

Communities for Clean ports is a community of activists proposing stronger
legislation and tougher laws on ports.

SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION [HTTP://SUNLIGHTFOUNDATION.COM/]

The Sunlight Foundation uses Drupal to power it's blogs and community tools.
>From the website:

The Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using
the
revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable
citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives
are doing...

------------DEV ZONE------------

DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT QUICKIES

My bzr log shows more than 260 commits in the three months since Drupal
4.7.0.
That's a daily average of almost three. Thanks to everyone who worked hard
writing, reviewing and committing!

Here are some of the commits that caught my eyes reading the log at the
Montreal airport waiting for my flight to Vancouver:

  * It was always problem to change links returned by modules. We resorted
to
various string hacks in our themes. No more [http://drupal.org/node/18260],
thanks to Ber, m3averck et al.

  * Block visibility is now controllable by role [
http://drupal.org/node/18018]
thanks to: dww, nedjo, tostinne, luke et al

  * Caching logic is now in a separate file [http://drupal.org/node/67675].
We
expect that you soon will be able to use files and "memcached" to cache
stuff.
Thanks to myself (chx)

  * GUID support was added [http://drupal.org/node/61433] to prevent
duplicate
posts being inserted.  Thanks to: Steve Dondley

  * Your non-core modules and themes now can go to sites/all
[http://drupal.org/node/44920]. Thanks to: Crell et al

  * Mails now can be changed [http://drupal.org/node/71194] thanks to Goba.

  * admin/settings is now vastly reorganized [http://drupal.org/node/72284]
thanks to: Dries

  * Modules have been moved to their own directories.

  * An initial install system for Drupal core [http://drupal.org/node/68926
].
Special thanks goes to Kieran Lal (amazon) for sponsoring and driving this
patch forward. Adrian Roussow (adrian) has written the original in the
beginning of 2004, Jeremy Andrews (jeremy), Nedjo Rodgers (nedjo) and Angie
Byron (webchick) working on it under the CivicSpace umbrella for 1.5 years,
then Karoly Negyesi (chx) moved it to close to core with the help of Jeff
Eaton
(eaton) and others. Finally Steven Wittens (steven) took over and brought it
home.

  * Added support for additional fields in blogapi
[http://drupal.org/node/38178] via a couple new hooks. Thanks to: Eaton.

  * We removed gender-specific pronouns [http://drupal.org/node/75594].
Thanks
to: eafarris

  * Total administration section reform [http://drupal.org/node/72079].
Thanks
to: merlinofchaos

  * A lot of properties of content tyes are now editable
[http://drupal.org/node/62340] and you can create as many simple node types
as
you want. Thanks to: chx, webchick, Jaza, Eaton, mathieu, and Drumm.

  * User mass editing [http://drupal.org/node/75582] is now possible thanks
to
hunmonk.

Karoly Negyesi,
[ [http://drupal4hu.com] ]

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