Deprecated - Drupal core

Hi,

We are about to migrate an application called Dgroups www.dgroups.org (somewhat similar to Yahoo Groups) for collaboration among development orgs. to Open Source. Drupal appears to have lots of building blocks in order to create such a system, but I'm not totally sure if it can do the job. Does anyone know if any of this is possible:

1) We need to have some central site, where administrators (of groups) can create a new groups with an appropriate skin. Each group would contain a blog (news), links, calendar, document upload, and message archive (to a mailing list). There could be hundreds and if successful thousands of groups hosted by the one drupal install. An admin might be an admin of 1-200 groups or more.

2) Each group would have a unique URL so that members of the group could login to it.

3) The groups could be public or private.

4) Users of the whole system would be able to see all available groups and add themselves to appropriate public or private groups.

5) Users would be able to click a button called 'mygroups' to see the groups they would be belong to.

6) In addtion, there might be many other hosted iterations of the same thing all over the world. They need to talk to each other. Drupal's distributed authentication system might help solve this issue.

I noticed there is multisite patch (not yet integrated into the core I believe, although there have been some requests). This might solve the issue of creating the various groups, but I wonder if it is needed or if Drupals unpatched arch. could handle this model.

I submitted a request for a CVS account. My question is, how long will it take to either get an account or get notification that my request has been denied?

Thanks.

Module in development, Page Shell

Hi, I created a patch to the "taxonomy" module which adds a new operator, "up", to the existing ones. Instead of the URL "taxonomy/view/or/17" you can use "taxonomy/view/up/17" and the nodes from term (tid) #17 **and all of its parents** are displayed.

I have English and Thai content on my site. I noticed that for Thai posts, the teasers are always much shorter (visually) than the English posts.

Could this be because the counting mechanism count the length of encoded characters? (like &116; or & #x74;)

My attempt to put my rather large (unreleased) module as a GPL project on http://gna.org failed, I received a message on how the LICENSE.txt (as Drupal 4.4.2 distributes it) is too old and named wrong (I used Drupal's LICENSE.txt). One other error at least for drupal source code files seems to be the absence of correct GPL text on top of EACH source code related file.

For my module I need to make a few minor modifications to drupal code, so I have to redistribute all drupal code along with my module for it to be working code.

At least for Drupal 4.4.2, this means basically the following:
LICENSE.txt is outdated! This file should be replaced with this file: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt and that file should be called COPYING

Also,

I fail to see source code files (*.inc *.module) with a GPL notice and _copyright holder_ mentioned.

I paste some directions I received:

Additional instructions are available from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The GPL FAQ explains why these procedures must be followed.  To learn
why a copy of the GPL must be included with every copy of the code,
for example, go to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyMustIInclude

Can all these indications please be updated? I cannot release my own module code under the GPL via http://gna.org until Drupal has it's own GPL indications up-to-date, I am requ

I downloaded CVS yesterday and tested on my local machine. (loved the new tab navigation)

However, I can't get anonymous comment to work. I set the permission to access and post comment, but I got

Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page.

after clicking the "add comment".

I'm not sure if this should go to bug report or something or not, haven't been so active in the forum.