One of the cool benefits of the watchdog module is being able to see what caused a page error on your website and when it happened, and the IP that did it. I never thought about this until now, but this is more than a debugging tool, but can also be a security monitor.
I understand Drupal is licensed under GNU/GPL. I wonder if it is allowed to use Drupal as part of a commercial service. E.g. can we host a Drupal-based site as part of a service we offer our customers?
We at, hack4dean.org, a working group of professional software engineers, graphical artists, students, and other miscellaneous innovators are in the beginnings of a monumental web development project. Our goal is to create and support extensible web community tools for all interest-based and regional groups who are participating in the Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign. The first set of tools we will release will be built on Drupal.
The past month we have been hard at work getting ready for the Drupal 4.2.0 release; we have been squashing bugs and made small improvements all over the map. We are now in the final phase of the code freeze which means we are down to a few remaining issues that need to be resolved. If you haven't already, please help us test. Report back your findings in the comments below or, if you found a bug, file a bug report.
Dries has approved a new Drupal mail list to be used for working on ways to improve the Drupal user experience. As his email to the Drupal-develop list explains:
Everything that has to do with "user experience" is considered relevant, including (but not limited to) usability, documentation, and localization. . . . The drupal-user mailing list will be less technical and offers a home for non-programmers willing to contribute to Drupal development.
Note that support questions should still go to the Drupal-support list.
Charlie Lowe announced that he assembled a group of writing teachers interested in using Drupal in education. The group is mostly comprised of PhD students and faculty in Computers and Writing, a subfield of Rhetoric and Composition studies. They plan to commit themselves to improve and extend the existing Drupal documentation. Read on for the full announcement.
