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How to search a Module in Drupal.org ?

By nicopepe on

Hello evrybody,

I want to build a website with drupal. Unfortunatly for me, i can't spend so much time, and i do it little steps by little steps.
I looked the last time the module list on july. I would like to know what is new since then ? What are new modules and what are modules that have been updated ?

List of new modules, updated modules

By drupalguest on

i looked at the download > modules section and noticed it is sorted alphabetically. is there a way to find out when the module was last updated? is there a list of newly released modules? how do i know when to update my modules?

is Drupal development and the Drupal community getting too scattered? discussion point..

By Dublin Drupaller on

Hi Guys,

Just thought I'd post a discussion starter up here for anyone else who is experiencing the following symptoms:

  • 70/80% of your time is spent troubleshooting your drupal installations and 20/30% actually working with your sites
  • confusion about which modules are which, what difference there is between modules that do the same thing
  • uncertainty about whether you should install a.module or b.module or c.module and which will be maintained
  • you have stumbled across a fantastic, useful.module at a non drupal.org site purely by accident
  • You find it frustrating to get quick responses from the forum and don't know about the IRC support channel
  • You learn about new developments or essential fixes by visiting drupal.org and spotting posts by chance while browsing the RECENT POSTS

This is not intended as negative criticism...it's intended as a constructive discussion point, because, while I love Drupal and it's community etc. I have noticed a general scattering of late that has me slightly worried...

A good, simple, example might be the emailthispage functionality which now has (I think as many as) 4 contributed modules. All doing essentially the same thing, but, slightly differently.

Another example would be how drupal.org and Drupal development is being inadvertantly "forked" with other non drupal.org sites, but related, turning into mini-development hubs for "their own" Drupal, not the drupal.org Drupal...if you know what I mean.

How are the drupal.org support forums doing?

By DriesK on

The success of an open-source project such as Drupal largely depends on the quality (and efficiency) of the support that community members offer to each other. Although Drupal offers support through various channels, the Support Forum on drupal.org probably is the most important 'gateway to help' for most users.

My personal feeling has always been that, generally speaking, the support on the forums is fast, efficient, and almost always leads to some kind of solution for the problem being discussed. However, after following this thread, I started wondering exactly how well we are doing in the support forums, obviously staying neutral concerning the actual discussion in that specific thread. One way to express that, would be to calculate the forums' response ratio, being the percentage of topics to which at least one reply was posted. This of course doesn't account for the responses' quality, but it gives an idea of the forum activity.

Can i build a new site from scratch using Drupal?

By zirafi on

Hi,

I've downloaded Drupal and going through configuration topics. So far i'm thinking i don't have to write any code to build a site using Drupal. I think i may be wrong and you can comment me on this, caz i'm trying to understand how this CMS does help me. After read some of the configuration topics, i understood that i need to have a site already developed before using Drupal. Am i right?

serach engine

By dan123-1 on

how do one enable the search module ?

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