Deprecated - Drupal core

Drupal is a great product, and it seems to me that 5.0 will be a transition into a much different face of Drupal. So, because I'm not involved in the real project but take a distant interest, please forgive my naive question for what's up on everybody's radar. I know everyone's still thinking about 5.0, but I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to know what will be next and I'm sure others will want to start thinking/brainstorming/coding. So what's next? I have some ideas but some lines would be useful in this gray picture.

When adding term (creating new) in some category I write the name and the Breadcrumb path, but drupal doesn't save breadcrumb path. I always have to then edit an item to change it.

I tried it many times and It never saves the breadcrumb while creating a new term.

I often receive Drupal.org e-mails from the group I have suscribed to, or from other members through the e-mail contact form in my junk folder in hotmail. I never bothered too much with that as I check this folder also.

Then I started to experience more serious problems. My ISP host is not accepting any of the e-mails I sent from my Drupal install on Dreamhost. Mail is not delivered. I get an e-mail back in Dreamhost that says something along the lines that the e-mail failed to be delivered because the other host considered it abusive.

I inquired about this with my ISP provider. They suggest I use a fifth argument when using the php function mail().

I am gonna try that. I will seriously need to hack Drupal's code for this, and maybe someone can help me...? I just need to know which function to change... then I'll look up all instances where that function is called.

Researching into this matter, I found this, in a David Power's book I bought (a most remarkable php book by the way) : Php Solutions :

Most people are unlikely to need the fifth argument, although some hosting companies now make it a requirement. It ensures that the email is sent by a trusted user, and it normally consists of -f followed (without a
space) by your own email address, all enclosed in quotes. Check your hosting company’s
instructions to see whether this is required and the exact format it should take.

Folks:
I'm interested in all the same questions as rconstantine, in posting:
http://drupal.org/node/105011
... namely the zen of vid and nid, and a few other points.

FWIW, I have slurped the structure of my installed drupal into an E-R tool and manually sketched in many of the obvious conceptual relationships, but am a little stuck on the same points as rconstantine noted. (And maybe if I got unstuck I might get the diagram in respectable enough form that it would be useful to others).

Thanks,

Bug present in 5.0-dev

on line 1503 there is a foreach() within the user_view function which is erroring if that array is empty, so i have wrapped this in an if statement to avoid any unnecessary errors.

I was playing around with the IMCE module last night. I realized that the module was inserting HTML in the node for the images to insert, that much is great, however the href attribute for these images was an absolute link to the server's root. (Some say : server-root-relative path.) Indeed that is the only way it will "work" because of Drupal's weakness with regards to its clean (not so smart) URL management.

This is a problem as far as I see it. It is brought up regularly in the forums. Never dealt with.

Here is the problem :

When clean URLs is enabled, Drupal is unable, through its very own "rewrite rules", to correctly reference any file that is in the "Files" directory, unless the link to it is absolute. Relative links from index.php to the File folder, that File Folder location and name defined explicitly in the Adm Control Panel by the admin himself, aren't referenced correctly.

We usually want to have a test site.

We even move our web sites around, when we are no longer satisfied with our hosting cies.

Hence, if you move a web site, or transfer a dabase, and the Drupal installation does not have the exact same absolute path to the web's server, all images links are broken in all nodes.

Here is a simple, reasonable request :

Make it possible for end users to enter html image links in nodes with php input disabled, which won't break when (a) the site is in a subdirectory, (b) clean URLs are enabled and (c) the site is moved.