Drupal 6.0 Released

Posted February 13th, 2008 at 09:13 PM by IlliniPundit
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The great folks at Drupal, which is the software used to publish this site, have just released a major upgrade to v6.0.  I'm going to start playing around with it on a test site before upgrading here, while also waiting for the bugs to get ironed out of the new release. 

We will upgrade here as soon as practicable, as I'm very excited about some of the new features, and that upgrade may include some policy changes.  Specifically, I'm thinking of requiring registration or a valid email address to comment, as well as allowing universal access to the front page.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas for site features or policies (or any old suggestions that I've been ignoring) now would be a great time for me to see if I can implement them.  I've always said that this site is only as good as the commenters make it, so your input is very much wanted and your ideas will absolutely be considered.

Of course, if anyone has knowledge in CSS or mySQL and wants to help, I'd love any assistance I can get.  I had a great helper when IP.com first switched to Drupal 4.x over a year ago, but everything else I've learned the hard way.  :-)

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On February 13th, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Run4cvrlib said:

I have no suggestions beyond those suggested. I would like to say thanks for all the work you put into the site. I read the description of the changes to Drupal which number 1600, I take all of this for granted and just hunt and peck to send my comments out into the world, I didn't realize how complicated it was.

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On February 13th, 2008 at 10:51 PM, IlliniPundit said:

Thank you, but the people who program Drupal (and the other excellent open-source content management systems) and make it available to novices like me, answering my questions and fixing my mistakes - they're the ones who do the real work.

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On February 13th, 2008 at 11:16 PM, D. Boon said:

I'd like to have the little smiling yellow heads.  The eyeroll would be especially appreciated.

Good luck, geek.  :)

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On February 14th, 2008 at 07:58 AM, IlliniPundit said:

"I'd like to have the little smiling yellow heads.  The eyeroll would be especially appreciated.

Good luck, geek.  :)"

Noted, and thank you.

On February 14th, 2008 at 08:54 AM, JRR said:

I'm pretty competent at CSS stuff and would help in my not-so-copious spare time.

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On February 14th, 2008 at 09:10 AM, IlliniPundit said:

Thank you. 

I'll send you a note when we get to a point where we can think about theming.

On February 14th, 2008 at 09:12 AM, wayward said:

FWIW, I'd be willing to help too.

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On February 14th, 2008 at 09:16 AM, IlliniPundit said:

Excellent.

Thanks!

On February 14th, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Run4cvrlib said:

Oh I guess I do have one suggestion, some of these other people may need a spell checker.

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On February 14th, 2008 at 01:36 PM, IlliniPundit said:

Spell checker is high on my list, for my own personal use as well as yours, Run.

On February 19th, 2008 at 01:26 AM, Seth (not verified) said:

might want to check out moveable type or wordpress. i think both have more features fo bloggin than drupal. imho, drupal is one of the better cms's, but lacking in blogging features. my 2 cents.

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On February 19th, 2008 at 08:17 AM, IlliniPundit said:

"might want to check out moveable type or wordpress. i think both have more features fo bloggin than drupal. imho, drupal is one of the better cms's, but lacking in blogging features. my 2 cents."

IP.com was on wordpress for more than a year.  I switched to Drupal because it allows for for "community" features than either MT or WP.

That said, wordpress is great, and use it for my personal site and almost everything I build for anyone else.