[documentation] Here comes the Features page! :)

[Addison Berry]

Just an FYI, this was still on Full HTML format due to whack HTML. I  
cleaned it up, stripping all of the junk out and making it suitable  
for the Doc team format, so it is now cleaner and accessible to doc  
team. It does indeed need more cleanup though.

- Addi

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Gábor Hojtsy wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Up until earlier yesterday, the http://drupal.org/features page was
> managed by an obscure and old module called feature, which is used by
> less the 30 sites reporting back:
> http://drupal.org/project/usage/feature The permissions for editing
> this page were limited, so you could not get there, and even if you
> could, the module restricted you to its custom categories support (no,
> not taxonomy), and feature items in categories, which could only have
> some textual intro, an image link and a read more link. All managed in
> custom code stored in custom tables. Not totally flexible. This data
> was all used to generate what looks like very dated markup such as
>
> <div style="font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:
> 15px;"><p>General features</p></div>
>
> for a header and
>
> <i>Collaborative Book</i> - Our unique collaborative book feature
> lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to
> contribute content.<div align="right"><a href="node/284">detailed
> information</a>&nbsp;
>
> for explanation. Ouch. It also linked to Drupal 4.3 screenshots as
> showcase. Due to the permissions and architecture limitations, this
> was deadly outdated. It also did not support versioning of the feature
> list, only supported plain text input in feature descriptions, no
> formatting whatsoever, etc.
>
> So what happened yesterday, is that this module was finally retired  
> from
> drupal.org, and its generated page was moved into the node which made
> it possible to have it in the handbook, but magically did not contain
> any text before. Now the content is up for the doc team, and you
> should be able to run with it and update / spice it up, clean out old
> markup, etc. Please do!
>
> Gábor
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