After using XOOPS for the past year and using Mambo for another site, I discovered Drupal via the urlgreyhot.com site. I have a few sites, but I decided to pilot Drupal on my personal web site, Nautis Project. My day job is management consulting (IT Strategy and Knowledge Management) - so I work with information architects quite a bit. I'm impressed by Drupal's taxonomy core. This system seems to have been built correctly from the ground up. Some of the most sophisticated content management systems out there (Interwoven, Vignette, Documentum) have still not mastered this idea very well.

In preparation of the Drupal 4.6.0 release, development of Drupal core will be frozen on February 1th. During the initial stage of the code freeze, documentation updates, usability improvements and performance improvements will be accepted. New functionality, on the other hand, will not be accepted unless deemed important. Thus, as of February 1th, the focus is to strengthen the code base's performance, usability and stability. As we progress, focus will shift towards stability and near the end of the code freeze, only bug fixes will be allowed, until no release critical bugs are left.

I am interested in spearheading the development of a module that allows the creation of quizzes, administers them and keeps records of users' performance. This module would be aimed at educational sites where users come to test thier skills and understanding. I would like initial feedback from the community to guage interest and to find out if anybody has already begun work in this direction.

I realise that I'm likely to get a biased report from here, but I'll ask anyway - how does Drupal stack up to Mambo? What are the advantages and disadvantages? I'm looking strongly at either Drupal or Mambo as a solution, and I don't want to invest time and learning in a CMS I won't end up using long term.

The website is going to be mostly information rather than community (so no need for forums, comments, etc). It is for an educational institution, including course information and other details like that.

Thanks

Exactly four years ago, on January 15th 2001, I released Drupal 1.0.0. The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:

The Drupal project has released version 4.5.2 of its open-source content management platform. Drupal 4.5.2 is a maintenance release that provides corrections of problems reported using the bug tracking system. Drupal 4.5.2 fixes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability so it is recommended that you upgrade your existing Drupal sites. There are no new features in this installment. For more information about the Drupal 4.5.x release series, please consult the Drupal 4.5.0 release announcement and the Drupal 4.5.1 release announcement. For more information about the Drupal 4.5.2 release in particular, read on.