Hello, I'm Piotr Krukowiecki, aka Cvbge, your new (for almost three months) PostgreSQL maintainer. As some people have noticed, there was a poll running on drupal.org last week. This text summarises feedback gathered in the poll's comments, lists problems with PostgreSQL support in Drupal, and shows my plans on how to improve it. It also includes a help request (last item, but probably most important!)

Performancing.com is a group of blogging professionals who write about how to blog. They use Drupal. They also compared 10 blogging platforms for the purpose of blogging and Drupal comes out well (#2). Their site is interesting especially because of how well they are building a community almost overnight.

For those of you not subscribed to the development mail list and are curious, (why are you not subscribed if you are interested?) the conditions for Dries rolling a release candidate are now announced below.

The short answer is, it depends on how many bug fixes are submitted and how many people help review them. Possibly as early as next week if the level of critical bugs continues to go down as they are fixed and a base level of stability is met.

Following Drupal's involvement in the Google Summer of Code program, Robert Douglass was interviewed by Liz Gannes of Red Herring magazine. The issue has just hit the news stands, and the article, "Google U", is a full page from the 48 page publication. In the section Winning Hearts, where Google's motivation for spending $2 million on open source is pondered, Drupal get's it's shining moment:

And that kind of money is a significant infusion for open source. It means an emerging project like Drupal, a content management platform run by Belgian students that mentored 10(sic) Summer of Code participants, can get the equivalent of “hiring a highly qualified developer for an entire year to work for us,” says Robert Douglass, an American developer in Germany who spearheaded Drupal’s involvement. “Fifty-thousand dollars earmarked for Drupal development—that’s really astounding.”

You can read the full article at RedHerring.com.

Thanks again to Robert (see his post) and the whole team of mentors (and students!) that were involved with th

I used to subscribe to The Progressive and now I'm glad to see that they put my subscription dollars to good use and bought themselves the best CMS on the market; Drupal. Perhaps someone at The Progressive might want to share your story about how you chose Drupal and what it is like running a major news site with it?

So, I spoke with Dries about this and he said go ahead.

There are some reported issues with 4.6.3 and php5 (and misc other stuff). Let's see if we can get some folks to look at the issues for 4.6.3 and any that have patches for them, test (only test 4.6.3 not HEAD) and review. Pay paticular attention when you comment.