General discussion

Hi...

Just wanted to start a discussion of why people have resorted to or why are they you are using flexinode - and for what purpose...?

I'm thinking about using it but I don't know what advantages it may give me... I mean, you already have an image type, book type, blog type... etc...

Thanks!

drupal, like any software package, has flaws that need to be fixed. with a commercial product, however, someone is responsible for seeing that problems are addressed and the customers are kept happy. because OS has no customers, and no company per se (something i think is great, in general), the pressure to keep anyone happy is missing. the various module suppliers are the ones responsible for customer service -- and frankly, most of them could appear to give a rat's ass.

massmailer, for example, has a bug. it's a little bug, but it's affected a few people, including a guy named John Jonas, who, being a php programmer, spent a few hours looking at the code and finding the problem. one line of one file was missing 2 periods, and with that taken care of, MM worked for him -- and for me. (of course, i've reported this bug appropriately.)

the point is that this problem has existed, it's been reported, and it took an outsider to find the bug. meanwhile, people keep trying to use MM because the drupal "community" says how wonderful drupal is, how superior OS is to commercial ware, how responsive people are to your problems, bla bla bla. except problems go on and on, and if a developer feels like fixing the problem, great; if not, tough. newbies are made to feel like idiots, and if unlike me you don't have a programmer pal to turn to, you'll waste hours and weeks on something you are told is a brilliant solution -- that fails.

i installed Taxonomy Access Control in order to restrict access to unregistered users to one of the category. i can't seem to get it worked or may be i don't know how.

admin > access control > category permission > anonymous user > i tried both check and uncheck the category that i want users to register so that they are able to access it. it doesn't seem to do anything at all.

any help or suggestion please!

If you already have a running site and have access to security updates and updates to modules what are the other reasons you have for upgrading?

I am asking because of the iminent release of Drupal 4.7 which I am trying to find a good reason for updating to. I am not a "bleeding edge type user" so 4.7 really does not have that much appeal for me. But I see that there is always a swarm wanting to upgrade for seemingly no good reason.

At Barcamp in Amsterdam, the friendly Jabber dudes pointed out to us that searching Google for PHP CMS PostgreSQL didn't lead one to find Drupal (we were several pages down in the search results). He also pointed out that when he looks for open source software, he turns to freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net, and we don't rank highly on those sites either. His point --- we don't get found by everyone who is looking for us. So Boris Mann decided to fix the problem (at least a little bit) and claimed that he'd have the top search spot in "a few days". Well, he did it:

Hi

I am pretty new to Drupal and I want to use it to build an interactive site for a textbook
collective : http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst

The key thing I need to be able to do is design my own workflows. I was wondering if there is a status report
somewhere on the Workflow summer of code project?

I have installed the current workflow module but I am struggling to get what I want out of it, but I am still
learning.

Thanks,

Mark