Deprecated - Drupal core

I have heard some hosting companies are making the switch to php5 which is breaking drupal sites. My hosting company is notorious for adding the latest versions. Should I panic now or when my site breaks? (joke) Will drupal be php5 compatible before or after I get fired? (another lame joke)

http://drupal.org/node/6630

i'm currently editing the user.module and the profile.module so that they fit my special needs. so i discovered the serialized data field in the users table. drupal stores there everything, which is submitted by the browser!!

is this the intended behaviour?
so everyone could come and store hundreds MB of nonesense in my database!!!?

further, which information does drupal store there?
since the profile.module uses it own table, is this field still needed?

There are some discussions and work in progress at the moment to change the administration user interface to be a little more friendly for the upcoming release(s).

One topic in specific that has been discussed is where 'roles' administration should be. While a lot of developers have chimed in on the topic, and those developers tend to be admins of their own sites, I haven't heard much input from the 'average' administrator on where s/he would expect to find roles administration. In other words, I found that after doing a search, there doesn't appear to be a recent thread on the topic of roles administration here in the drupal.org fora. (the ones I found go back a few versions - and the current discussion appeared only on the drupal-dev mailing list).

If there is a fairly recent thread in the general fora here at drupal.org, I'll be happy to move the discussion over there, but I thought I would post this topic to see if some administrators out there in the drupalsphere had any thoughts on the topic and would care to share them.

In 4.5 roles were put into administer -> users -> configure -> roles. I think most people agree that this was a bit hidden away (i.e. not easy to find, not where it would be expected to be found).
I seem to recall that in previous versions roles were found in administer->settings->roles. This was changed for 4.5 so there was obviously a reason for it (whatever the reason was at the time).

Hi.
I searched Drupal site, but I didn't find ERA model of database. Is it available somewhere and I just need to search better?

If it is not available yet I think it would be a good idea to create one. I'm quite new to Drupal and I want to better understand the way Drupal works and ERA model would be IMHO a great start.

Thanks for replies.

So, both functions disappeared somewhere between 4.5 and current.
I see that they are simple wrapper methods for module_invoke_all() calls but shouldn't a API change be reflected at least by CVS comments?

Hello, I've noticed that there is no easy way to delete multiple comments at once. This is a critical feature, since between spammers and trolls, one is often faced with a need to delete several comments in a single shot without having to reassure the server of one's seriousness. The obvious way to do this would be to put checkboxes next to every comment and have a mass action button, more or less the same way they do at LiveJournal.

It's a pain right now just to delete one comment with the default drupal install. Having to go to seperate confirmation page just to delete one (!) comment is way too much.

Also, while I'm here, I've noticed that drupal does not generate particularly useful user pages by default. The userposts module provides a listing of nodes and pages created by the user, but not comments. Even at that, it's a little primitive. User pages with comment listings are critical to fostering a sense of identity on community oriented blogs. Without a record of what people have written in the past, most users become little more than names attached to comments. History is important in establishing continuity of personality. I would say that Scoop is the gold standard as far as user pages go, so it'd probably be good to try to emulate their setup.

I managed to hack the userpage module up a bit to put some recent comments on the page in addition to the usual nodes, book entries, and so on (even seperated it into nice little columns), but it's quite primitive.