Deprecated - Drupal core

I have to set up a bunch of drupal sites within the next month. So in the moment I am testing the actual cvs/pre-4.5. version to find out what is the best solution. The recent download provides a new locale module (PO files upload etc.) with some improvements.

I am not happy to report that the new locale results in a tremendous performance reduction especially with older and slower servers.
The speed reduction (devel) is between 800% (slower server & small percentage of transl. strings) and more than 2000% (faster server & a biger amount aof transl. strings) compared to a setting with locale disabled or english as default.

Drupal with new locale "adds" more speed reduction to faster machines than to slow server - relative to settings with locale disabled ord english selected. This looks like a sort of compensation: One can take away more power from the powerful, because enough strength remains; one cannot take away too much power from the less powerful because of the apparent weakness (this is not a competent technical explanation)

Values are page execution time (ms) provided by devel, start page was called

SERVER 1: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz, 2 GB mem, 3 SCSI 76GB, RAID 5, Freebsd 4.10, Apache/2.0.50, PHP/4.3.8 
SERVER 2: 1x AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+, 1 GB mem, 1 IDE HD 60 GB, Apache/1.3.31, PHP/4.3.8
SERVER 3: 2x Pentium II Xeon/400Mhz, 512 MB mem, 1 SCSI  4GB + 1 SCSI 8 GB, Freebsd 4.10, Apache/2.0.50, PHP/4.3.8

I want to set up a site with two or more locales, but as i see the site specific variables site-slogan, site-mission, site-footer etc. stored in variables table and there is no way to translate it to other languages yet. Am i right?
All that i found that the multi-site patch, but that is not exactly what i want...

Someone workin' on this now?
If not, i want to start it...

Dear friends,
a minor but significant fix in localization can be found in the page.module / function page_link().

The $links array should look like
$links[] = l(t($page->link), "node/view/$page->nid", array("title" => t($page->description)));

i.e. translating the $page->link and the $page->description

Hopefully, somebody with CVS access could estimate to fix it.

Regards

What is the drupal irc channel? And what network is it on?

Devin.

I'm not very familiar with the RSS paradigm and Drupal's implementation in this area, but it seems to me to be an error when people using RSS feed readers get notifications of updates when I edit an unpublished document. Is this a known problem, a settings problem, or something else?

cheers,

Robert Douglass

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I have started working on some scripts that would allow me to perform some admin operations, such as adding users in bulk (i.e. adding 600 users from a CSV file)

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