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Since one or two weeks Drupal.org Site is ultra slow... is there anything wrong with the Servers? I'm in Germany and near the DECIX... and it's not only seens such slow on my line... sometimes i get timeouts from the servers...

PS: preview THIS posting took 28.780s (measured with Fasterfox).

i'm getting more and more issues submitted indicating that other people are actually using the project.module on their own sites (i know, surprising, huh?). ;)

i'd love to have a way to communicate with these people in a more structured way than leaving comments on the project node or in the issue queue. for example, the new release system completely drops support for the old "scan this directory for new releases" stuff, but i have no idea if anyone is really using/depending on that functionality in the wild. i'd love to be able to send out an email to all these people (opt-in, of course) and say "hey, i'm planning to do X, will that ruin your site?". similarly, such a community of users is an essential element in fostering a wider team of active users, testers, and eventually developers/translators/contributors for project.module.

of course, nothing i just said is specific to project.module. anyone trying to be a responsible maintainer would probably want something like this. and i'm guessing users of modules would often be thrilled to have a list of this sort.

there's the whole issue of project-specific forum posts. while that would certainly help keep the forums more useful, i don't think that's a solution to this problem, since i don't believe end users of any given module are going to be closely following those forums in the same way.

I would like to see a voting feature added to the modules list to help determine the quality of modules as there really isn't a way of doing so at this time without testing. There are just to many modules to go out and test each and every module. It would also serve as a method of determining how widely used a particular module is. Any thoughts concerns about adding this feature to the drupal.org site?

-Jeff O'Hara
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Hi. I am in the process of developing a Drupal site and need to use a calendar app I wrote based on the PEAR package:

Calendar

Drupal beta5 looks great! kudos to everyone who contributed

but I feel with new version releasing on this site brought another layer of complexity

if one wants to download
on
http://scratch.drupal.org/project/Drupal+project
5.x = drupal-HEAD

http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project
drupal-5.0-beta1.tar
drupal-cvs

Q: is CVS not HEAD? what is the difference between beta and them?

same confusion with modules

but on updated modules list there are some modules indicated as updated to v.5
yet on
http://drupal.org/project/Modules
filter 5.x beta
there are none

so we go to
http://scratch.drupal.org/project/Modules/category
5.x = there are 2 modules
Bookmaker and Focus

and back to updated modules list

http://drupal.org/node/82257

those modules that ported to v5
i.e Buddylist Ported to 5.x

and the link takes the user to
http://drupal.org/project/buddylist
and this is by default v4.7

ok lets the View the other releases
http://drupal.org/node/3230/release
that i presume cvs is the 'Ported' and for 'testing'

I guess is a this is a terminology question and reflected or rather not reflected to the site release/download site structure here.

I can not figure out any solution to this to come up with a suggestion yet i like to, it can be my shortcoming of understanding of exact terminology and the the site structure here, maybe masses, who are newcomers to Drupal after V5 came more onto the spotlight might experience the same