Hi I'm being to convert my actual joomla site to drupal... I want to create something of important like Teamsugar.com with some feautures of myplay.com, but now some doubts rise me in order to leave well and make a very structured job for after (the foundations for a structure are most important, I think!).
Mine problem and in a generalized manner of many people who approach themselves to drupal's worldis this:
*THE CHOICE OF THE VERSION*
Many people will think that it is one demanded "foolish", but in truth creed that play an important role for the development of a site! Drupal 6 is NEW RELEASE... Drupal 5 is STABLE RELEASE... the first one has many new feautures for the final user and "a fresh" api packet, in prestactional terms I do not know to quantify these improvements, but I believe that these improvements have brought remarkable progresses to the lovers of the "D"; the second one is instead the stable version most used and with one remarkable vastness of module to disposition.
The problem is this: To choose a new core version with the some possible modules to disposition and bug not still resolved, but that it gives to the "future" between not much time (even if creed that with the development of new Drupal 7 already in course.. also this version is just obsolete..), or to choose stable version of Drupal 5 (modules are many and all tested..).
In my plan I think of having to modify also heavy some modules in order to give unique and interesting interaction with final users...therefore if I delivery with drupal 6, I would have in the first place to attend the porting of some modules to the D6 and then develop them, or to try to make porting myself (the enormous waste of time) and slowly develop them... knowing to use one new set of api in the core.
Is to quantify if it is convenient in prestactionals terms to work on "Core" old D5 regarding new Core like D6.
Teamsugar.com portal is develop with drupal 4 and it is still good like code, I would want to create something that it allow me to have a great portal of those dimensions and to create it leaving to the best way.
What do you think about that?
PS: my actual portal is developed in joomla 1.0 , I can wait for at least until 3 months and I have planned to release new version of portal until 7-8 months max.
Module(views, cck, gallerix, something for videos,...)
..excuse me for my English..
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Hi
Hi,
Try to use the D5.Because the lot of modules are availble in the standard version in D5.
Thanks,
Raj.
In my case, I am waiting for Drupal 6
I'm in a similar situation as you for a large social site I am converting to Drupal, and as I am able to postpone a bit (and work on the many aspects of the site that don't require Drupal itself), I am choosing to wait for Drupal 6. Since Views 2, CCK 2, and Organic Groups 6.x-1.x all had their first release candidates for Drupal 6 today (woo hoo!) the wait should not be "that" much longer. Within the timeframe you mentioned, I believe that what you need should be available in time. However, if you choose to use Drupal 5, that is still good as well - I've heard that Drupal 5 will be supported a bit longer than usual during this cycle, as Drupal 7's code freeze has been pushed back (since many core developers have been tied up working on Drupal 6 related projects and haven't had enough time yet to invest in Drupal 7).
I've recently posted a few things around this topic if you're interested: http://drupal.org/node/269616#comment-879449
Sicne you mentioned videos, here's another of my posts the other day about video.
Best of luck with your Drupal site, and welcome to the community!
If I choose to work with
If I choose to work with Drupal 6, how many tasks I would have to attend for complete release of Views 2, CCK and Organic Groups?
In your Post of Drupal Video you talk about some Video module and other like(Panels2, Advanced Profile Kit, Mediafield, Mediafield View that module are only for drupal 5 now... and I don't known if that will be converted to Drupal 6 quickly...)
CCK2, Views2, OG2
These modules have release candidates for 6.x as of a couple of days ago. That means they're mostly stable pending final testing.
There are 4 open issues for views-6.x-2.0-rc1 currently, 3 for CCK-6.x-2.0-rc3, and 7 for OG-6.x-1.0-rc1.
You can browse the issue lists to see if any are blocking progress.