General discussion

In my new Drupal installation I get a GD error. I would like to search this site for a solution but I can't because the search engine ignores words shorter than 3 letters. Why is that? Isn't it better to have a list of common words that should be ignored? Not all short words are meaningless in a search query, I think.

Regards,

Frans

With the goal of creating a specification for a project to offer as part of the Summer of Code program, Dries has suggested that we discuss ways to improve Drupal's file handling capabilities. Issues include:

• renaming files
• browsing files
• better integration of image nodes and image files
• better permission control on files

Share your comments and suggestions here and I'll write up a project spec.

There is an article on Newsforge about Plone being the best enterprise CMS. Drupal and Mambo are lumped together and generally brushed aside as 'lightweight' options.

Other than one or two points, I think much of what the author touts as Plone's plus points are either already in Drupal or are being made. Any experienced drupallers (I know I am not one!) care to comment on newsforge just to set the record straight?

Flexinode works excellent for what I'm trying to achieve. However, I'd like to limit the number of characters a user can put into a text-field.

Flexinode allows you to set the size of the text box which users input text fields into, but you can't set it to where, for example, users can enter no longer than 500 characters or such.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Hi everybody

I have e news editor role, and i want to allow the users that belong to that role, to edit only the news, but not the other content of the site?

the only way that I find to allow a role to edit any content is giving the "administer nodes" privilege, but doing that, the user can edit then any node type.

There are any way to do what i want?

I'm sorry for my english, it is not good enough....

UPDATE
Our official project ideas can be found here:
http://www.drupal.org/summer_of_code_2005
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Mark Leicester pointed out on the development list that Google is funding open source development by awarding student stipends for their participation in open source projects. I think that Drupal should most definitely put some ideas up - perhaps we'll attract some fresh young talent (as if we have anything else around here ;-)

The link to the Google program is here:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

In order to participate in this program, we need to apply by June 14th. I am volunteering to handle the application process.

What we need until then are the following:

The mentoring organization must do the following:

Create a pool of ideas for students to choose from.
Have a person available to take in student ideas should they not find something that appeals to them.
Have a person available to review the incoming applications marked for that organization and decide who should go forward with the effort.
Have a person to monitor the progress of the students and mentor them as the project goes forward.
Have a person ready to take over for that person in the event they go on vacation, are hit by a bus, etc...
Be able to tell us about the developer, how they worked with the group, if they should be invited back should we do another summer of code, etc..