General discussion

Drupal.org is the busiest Drupal site I've seen. Does anyone know of any other really high-traffic sites? I'd like to check them out and see how they perform.

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revolver

Executive Summary

I propose to replace my employer's extranet website, which currently uses all custom-coding to generate dynamic web pages from database queries and trading partner electronic transactions, with one newly built upon Drupal.

Is this a good idea?

Why Drupal developers might care to help me answer this question

If I undertake to convert our current web applications to Drupal, I believe there are some benefits to the Drupal community which may accrue. They fall primarily in three categories:

1. My employer will pay for me to spend a significant amount of my time working directly on Drupal or Drupal-related code. I expect this may be a thousand hours over the next year minimum. This means I will be paid to work on Drupal issues which affect my employer, which would include bugs or limitations in core or module code. Fixing bugs is good for the Drupal community.
2. My employer will need to develop a large amount of custom code to run its applications. Some of that will be very generic code which will be donated back to the Drupal community if they so desire it. For example, almost all of our applications involve date input for elements. I will spend the time necessary to perfecting a variety of form elements such as date which others in Drupal may wish to use. (It is also true that much of the code I develop with be of no interest or use to anyone else, and/or proprietary.)

I'm planning a few new Drupal deployments, so I wonder how far we are from a stable 4.6 release.

At this point, would it be reasonable to base new sites on CVS's 4_6 branch?

Having an estimation about how things are in the 4.6 front would be nice to plan ahead translation updates, etc.

Hi,

I'm looking for a special function in Drupal or in a module: I need to reuse content on different pages / sites. Is there any option to handle a content library in Drupal? Can I link ( not via HREF but more linke OLE) and/or embed articles on different pages?

Haiko

If I get a free domain from a site like DotTK or FreeDomain.co.nr, will the authentication work? Could I say 'Login as username@something.co.nr' as they use javascript to redirect users.

Is the Drupal Handbook available in a download somewhere? Either as a PDF or just a .zip would be fine.

When I click on Handbook I can't find any quick and easy method to get the entire thing onto my local machine. I'd like to be able to read through the entire thing while not online.