Drupal.org upgraded

Is the new slogan "Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, a content management or discussion engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven weblog or website." and if so, what is the difference with the old one?

BTW: I was / am unable to type a subject field in this reply? Is this 4.5 behaviour or a booboo?

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groets


bertb

The latest forums block seem to be gone. It would be nice to reenable. Also the repeated 'range' word in the new mission statement does not look good. I am a bit picky. :)

On Point 3 - is there some simple way to know which modules are core, and which are contributed? I don't see any flag of that type anywhere. Should I have better paper notes on what modules I have installed, or should I just download a fresh copy of 4.4 and see what modules are there and compare to my list?

When will Drupal 4.5 be released? I'm looking around the site and I really like it. I don't want to use the CVS version.

Thanks

Mr Maggoo

Is it just me, or is drupal.org reeeallly sloooowwwwwwww today? Perhaps a bit of tuning is in order...

I don't know if this is relevant but: I installed the latest CVS today and It won't let me create the first account.
When I try to create the account it just says "You must select at least one role."

How do I create the Admin account?

* the latest forums block still doesn't appear for me
* please have a look at the "Filter format selector is confusingly positioned" patch and consider it for inclusion. those filter tips between subject and content textarea on submission pages are really annoying.
* there are quite some latencies with certain pages. it took me 5 to 8 seconds to load the forum page for the first time. guess the various performance speedup patches have to be considered, too.

PLease,

please, please, please. this is not the place to post support questions, nor the place to post concerns or feature requests.
The bug tracking system and the support system gives enough freedom to post any concerns or feature requests.

And if those are posted in that place they have a much bigger chance of being incorporaated in the new release. Provided they are valid, and have a good background, of course.

[Ber | webschuur.com]

If you update, also note that if you have any custom profile fields set in profile.module (in 4.4), you should do the needed modifications at the end of update_80() in database/updates.inc to import your custom profile fields properly.

Plus note that as usual, the Drupal built in update script only handles core data and no contrib modules get updated. You currently need to investigate on a module-by-module basis, what needs to be done to update (or if it is possible at all - ie. the module code was updated already).

I tried to modify my account here and upon submitting the changes, there's an error message saying: "You must select at least one role.". I am updating my "account settings".

I looked around for the role but it's not there.

I hope this would be addressed soon.

Thanks,

When I tried to post a forum topic or book page, I found nothing about the so-called document management feature that should be included in Drupal 4.5. I have no permission to do that? or it is not ready yet?

The past days we improved filter and menu caching. I just upgraded drupal.org to CVS HEAD so we can take advantage of these. If all is well, the site should be snappier.

I dont know if it is related to CVS, but since some time the interest of people is not showing correctly. See this bug report.
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groets
bertb

Hi All,

I am wondering if Drupal would work for a commerce site like http://bowling-tips-and-tricks.com?

Also, would I be able to tune it for Search Engines?

Thanks,

Ed

Hi there,

I tried upgrading from v4.4 to v4.5, but got numerous errors from the upgrade script, despite following Dries's instructions to the letter. In the end, tracked the error down to an errant 'menu' table that the update script seeemed to think shouldn't be there! Anyway, here's what I did to upgrade successfully - this may be specific to my configuration (XP, Apache, MySql, variety of downloaded modules and themes), and thus not actually help anyone; or it may be more general, and so be of some use, so if you're having problems, give it a try (but backup first!):

1). Before doing anything...
- Ensure you have a Drupal v 4.4 install
- Back-up includes/conf.php script

2). Go to your current drupal site
- Login as administrator
- Switch off ALL modules and themes (set theme = example)

3). Files -
- Delete all files and directories in existing drupal web directory
- Copy new drupal files and directories into old (now empty) drupal directory
- Copy old includes/conf.php file to new drupal includes directory
- Edit update.php script so that $access_check = FALSE; (You MUST change this back to TRUE after successful upgrade)

NOTE: setting access_check to FALSE seemed to be required for my upgrade. This could be a fault with me, rather than the script, but it was definitely needed for successful upgrade.

4). Database:
Update the database with the new tables, as the install instructions tell you to.

*Then go into mysql, and drop the menu table*

Note: The menu table gave the update script huge problems. Given that the update script creates a new menu table (hence the problems), and I didn't really care if I lost the existing menus or not, dropping the existing menu table was the only way my upgrade would work.

5). Completion
Finally, go back to your drupal site, and goto drupal/update.php, then click on 'Upgrade' using the default offered.

With any luck, the upgrade will work. Now back this new upgrade up immediately, to spare you having to go through the same procedure again should you break the thing :)