General discussion

Is it safe to store files on the filesystem? And if, for example, I'm having several web-sites on one sourcebase. How do secure it carefully?

I am still having trouble getting my site to work, and I thought the thing that I, and many other people need is an example site. Something that shows all the access controls, settings, etc. Is there anything like that allready?

I wonder, why on drupal.org when I type keyword "node access" into search box, it shows http://drupal.org/cvs-account ?

Even though they paid for the development (via Summer of Code), and even though I wrote to them to ask them to pretty-please add it to their list, Google still doesn't list Drupal + GSitemap module on their list of CMS's that implement the sitemap API.

http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html

I wrote to them again today.... maybe they'll update their site.

I think this would come down to personal preference. I would like to know what would be considered the best way of going about creating a new site, Structure first or theme first.

Is it best to setup all the modules you are going to use developing any custom modules you need and building a site with some content and all the structure using the default theme or a contributed theme before creating your own custom theme.

I don't know if this is posted in the correct forum, but anyway;

In a few days I'll start developing a new project / site using Drupal.

Now that the 4.7 betas are rolling, I'm wondering:

It would make sense to work with 4.7, since it is the soon-to-be official, current major version of Drupal.

However, many modules are not yet 4.7 compatible, so:

What is needed to make a given 4.6 module work with 4.7? Is it something that I can do myself relatively easy?