Module development and code questions

I have just added the ability to list the options of a profile field if the field is given but a value isn't to the profile module.

For example, right now /profile shows all public user information, /profile/profile_school shows a blank page and profile/profile_school/Miami University shows all public info on users for that school. I have written the code that allows a list of all possible schools to show up.

Introduction
I'm developing a site for a small software company (selling and supporting GIS (Geographical Information Systems) software). The site will be a community site where users of the GIS software can exchange scripts, place questions in the forum etc.

Why do I need 'read-only' fields in the profile module ?
One important request of the company is to be able to put the license information of the user's software online. This is just some text with the license codes and some more info. The support folks get a lot of questions about the license codes (esp. with upgrades) so a place where the customer can retrieve these online would be very handy. The only catch is that the current profile.module does support private fields but no read-only fields. Only an admin should be able to edit a 'read-only' field.

How to add a 'read-only' field option ?
There are several ways of implementing this. I've thought of:

1. Using flexinode to define a 'license node type' and the access-control features to limit access to this file. But this is quite cumbersome. I could code a php block to show a link when a user is logged in. It can be done, but not within my limited resources.
2. Build a module that integrates with the user account pages like notify.module and contact.module. Bu I think this is a bit overkill for such a small feature.

About 1 week or 2 weeks ago I applied for a CVS account, is this normal time to wait? When can I expect CVS access to add a module?

Thanks.

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I know their has been work to get the regular Blog post etc to recognize enclosures. But we are making a tech podcasts feature site and using the aggreator to pull all of the participants content. Is there a plan to add enclosure recognition on the aggregator side of the house.

This is another opportunity for Drupal to shine but it's aggregator again is not keeping up with the times.

Sites like bloglines etc have already added it. I understand they are a different model but a well designed drupal site could do the same thing.

I am wondering if it is possible to setup an SMS system where an international community could communicate back and forth with each other much like Upoc.com but only one group that sends messages.

I know that it is possible to send messages to the phone from the website, but is it possible to have the person receiving the message, reply to the group with their phone, and have their reply go to every phone associated with the group ... like a mobile messaging community.

Hello!

I want to have a "sandbox" for pages and stories where anonymous users (=user not logged in) can add, edit and delete pages and stories - but only the pages and stories they have created. The access rights should be granted based on the session id, meaning a user can only view (and subsequently edit and delete) those nodes where the node id is associated with his session id in a separate table.

If possible, the pages module should still be usable for static portions of the site.