General discussion

I am new in Drupal world, and I have one question/suggestion.

I was looking up and down through Drupal.org web site in a hope to find some dummy data (or example web site) to initialize core Drupal installation, something similar that Mambo/Joomla has.
I think that would be useful for new users, like me, to understand how to organize web site in Drupal.

If somebody could point me where to find such example (mysql dump) I would be thankful.

Greetings from Germany

Hi,

I'm about to start development on a new site, and I would -love- to start work using HEAD; particularly to take advantage of the changes at http://drupal.org/CHANGELOG.txt

Today is 15th September, could you please indicate to us when HEAD will be frozen. I suspect working on the site will also result in (hopefully) significant usability and stability information, and we could all contibute to rewriting the documentation.

Question: Xtemplate is totally removed?

Regards,
Alex

It may be of some interest to the Drupal community to know about recent events in the Mambo community. It seems that less than a month ago the majority of the core development team left Mambo to form Joomla, in a response to some events regarding control of the development path/Mambo community etc. As it may be known to some of you, Mambo is "hosted"/sponsored - and now probably controlled - by a company called Miro. I don't know the details, but some of it can be found here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,72.0.html

This is not the first time I've seen forks happen. Some of you may remember the Php-Nuke to PostNuke split, and the subsequent PostNuke to Xaraya split/fork (and some other PostNuke to something forks that I don't recall now....). It is not often that such forks have good endings, Xaraya is an exeption I think.

In my opinion forks often happen when the leading developers get tired of people fighting for power and influence - and decide to take the code and walk away (in good compliance with the ideas that Richard Stallman preaches..). This is what it means when we say that "software wants to be free".
It happens when a project grows and becomes so succesfull that the community cannot stay one. When forces driving people away from each other, overpowers the opposite forces.

What can we learn from these events? Drupal has not yet experienced the pains related to such a fork. But that does not mean it will not happen. Can the Drupal community prepare itself for this?

I'm fairly new to Drupal but definatly sold on it. Drupal.org features a nice complement of modules but does anyone know of some third party resources for modules? Are there any sites that track/list 3rd party Drupal modules?

Any links are appreciates. Also, I would love to be pointed in the direction of any particular 3rd party modules that anyone has found especially impressive.

Thanks.

I have a couple of users that are contributing good content to my site and I would like to do one of two things to get their content on the front page. Either give them the option to promote their blog entries to the front page, or promote their content to the front page by default.

Is this possible? I have already put these two users into a new "super user" role, and will probably add users to this role in the future. So, the desired solution is to promote all "super user" blog entries to the front page by default.

Hi all,

Just getting started with a new version of my personal site. I just wanted to stop and thank all the Drupal developers, contributers, and community members. Drupal seems great! It only took me a couple of hours to get my site up (in a beta state) complete with Textile and Smartypants and start adding content. I'm still learning and need to customize everything, but the basics are all there. Once I get my personal site up & running, I'll start on a few other projects that have been lying fallow waiting for the right platform.