Drupal 7.x

Hello...

I am writing to inquire if anyone can create a global content management, web builder/replicator combined with a sequential multi user autoresponder system package with drupal. We manage several industries from a super admin area; all their websites, autoresponder, content, emails, everything gets replicated when a user signs up with their personalized content, then they can edit on their end, etc.

We are very disappointed with the project that we did over the past two years with another company. It actually is not really complete yet and it costs us significantly. It still is not what we want and other people have worked on it too, but most have did a poor job and we still don’t have what we want.

My question to you is, is anyone interested in seeing if they can incorporate what we've gotten done so far into what we want using drupal? Or do the whole thing over?

What do we want? A bunch...
-We want the system to be web 2.0 compatible for our users
-We want the latest programming and development technology to be used
-We want it to be graphically updated with web 2.0 look and feel
-We need better content management functionality and smoother
-We want all web 2.0 social networking integration with popular networks
-We want each user to get a blog with replicated content which we can manage from Super admin and they can manage from their admin.

Looking for full time lead dev to work from our west LA offices. Some at home work will be fine, but we're looking for someone who can work in a real office environment.

That said we work in a cool environment with a fun, very dedicated team.

Candidate will have written their own modules, will be able to build and manage a small team of developers, and work with freelance developers in other parts of the world.

This is a position for someone who is looking to be a Vice President of Technology or CTO in the future.

I don't know if this is the proper Forum for this topic but here goes...

How do people setup Drupal environments for a development effort with multiple team members...coders, themers, etc.

What is the typical setup? What environments to you create (DEV, TEST, PROD)? What is the best strategy to migrate code and data schema changes across these environments? Is there a dedicated resource on the team that just does migrations/deployments.

I just updated Drupal 7.x that was available on April 8 and I noticed that my cron wasn't updating some feeds I have on my site. When I manually ran cron I received this ERROR:

Home » Administer » Reports » Status report
Error
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

I also ran cron from outside my site using lynx: http://www.mysite.com/cron.php?cron_key=97d3s6e23457b454f781b9239a00f7a8

And received a 500 Internal server error. However, there are no errors in the logs for apache, mysql, or PHP

Anyone?

OK, I've finally got my head around this templating thing and I've been messing around with overriding functions and I have some questions.

1). I used the devel module and I clicked the 'submitted by' text on a page and it gave the result - function called: theme_node_submitted(). I went to the root of my wampserver folder and searched for 'theme_node_submitted' and I got no results. I then searched for 'node_submitted' and got one result, theme.inc in the includes folder. However when I opened this file and searched for node_submitted this is all there was - $variables['submitted'] = theme('node_submitted', $node);

So where can I find the the actual theme_node_submitted() function?

2). I overrided the theme_node_submitted function in template.php and it worked fine. However I then I tried to turn it into a template by changing the underscores to dashes and naming it mytheme-node-submitted.tpl.php. I just wrote the word 'hello' in this file but for some reason override isn't working, nothing has changed on the page. Am I doing something wrong here?

3). Could someone explain to me what the advantages/disadvantages are of making a function into a template are?

I need an admin panel that looks a lot more user friendly. My client isn't going to want the default admin panel. I want to use drupal for the website but if I can't find an alternative admin panel then I'll have to go to Joomla =(

Anyone know of an admin panel that I can install to replace the default one?