Planet Drupal and Drupal talk launched

By Uwe Hermann on 12 Sep 2005 at 22:05 UTC

The Drupal project is proud to announce a new service for our users here at Drupal.org — Planet Drupal. In addition, Drupal talk is back from the dead now. Planet Drupal is a place where the Drupal-related blog posts of many Drupal developers, users and supporters are aggregated. Drupal talk is similar in nature to Planet Drupal, but aggregates a lot more Drupal-related content, including usenet posts, forum posts, mailinglists and lots more. Click "read more" for more information.

Planet Drupal

Planet Drupal is a place where the Drupal-related blog posts of many Drupal developers, users and supporters are aggregated. This allows you to easily track what is going on in the blogging Drupal community. Planet Drupal also provides an RSS feed, so that you can browse the Planet in your favorite RSS aggregator.

Currently we aggregate ca. 20 blogs, more will be added later. If you want your own blog added or you know someone who you'd like to see added, please post here or contact Uwe Hermann.

There are currently two guidelines which your blog should meet if you want to have it added:

The blog must be written in English. Drupal is quite an international project and English is the only language that probably everybody around the world will understand.
We currently only aggregate Drupal-related content. So in order to be added, either your whole blog should be Drupal-related, or you should provide us with a feed which only contains your Drupal-related posts. This is quite easy to achieve with Drupal itself, simply create a category "Drupal" and file all your Drupal-related posts in there.

Drupal talk

Drupal talk is similar in nature to Planet Drupal, but aggregates a lot more Drupal-related content, including usenet posts, forum posts, mailinglists and lots more. In addition, Drupal talk aggregates (unlike Planet Drupal) contents in any language, not just English. Of course, Drupal talk provides an RSS feed, too.

Implementation

Both, Planet Drupal and Drupal talk, use the improved builtin aggregator module from Drupal HEAD (the upcoming Drupal 4.7), which allows us to aggregate RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.x, RSS 2.0, and Atom feeds. Unlike many other planets, we don't use the popular PlanetPlanet software, but rather Drupal itself in order to "eat our own dogfood".

We're looking forward to your comments and suggestions.

Comments

Looks fabulous

laura s commented 12 September 2005 at 22:29

I like the contributors' block, too. Might be nice to add a shortcut to the "contributor links" block on the right. This is going to be a regular stop for me.

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Done

Uwe Hermann commented 13 September 2005 at 22:40

I took the freedom to add Planet Drupal and Drupal talk to the "Contributor links" block. If most of the developers don't want them to be there, I'll remove them again, though.

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Hooray!

jdub commented 13 September 2005 at 02:03

As a maintainer of Planet and Drupal fan, I cheer for this most excellent news! :-)

Hey Jeff!

Malthus commented 13 September 2005 at 22:38

You probably don't remember me, but I am in your garnome CHANGELOG :)

Go Debian/gnome/drupal/planet/open source :)

Cheers!

Ubuntu

Brian@brianpuccio.net commented 18 September 2005 at 13:44

You forgot Ubuntu! :p

Hey jdub!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hosting Geek commented 18 September 2005 at 13:17

Hey jdub!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Uwe

robertDouglass commented 13 September 2005 at 04:57

I will love this and get far less work done because of it ;-)

I wonder if you could add class=even/odd to the feed items and have the odd ones be on a slightly grey background? That would be one way of making it easier to spot where one item ends and the next one starts without having to make margins, paddings or titles bigger.

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Soon

Uwe Hermann commented 13 September 2005 at 22:44

Some changes are already planned, I'm currently waiting for Dries to fix CSS files, as I don't have direct file access.

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Robert, the changes are

Uwe Hermann commented 14 September 2005 at 14:46

Robert, the changes are applied (thanks Dries!), does that look ok now, or do you propose further improvements?

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Looks great

Jose Reyero commented 13 September 2005 at 12:40

And I think it's a very good idea.

My question is: Who/where should I send the link for my Drupal related writings to show up there ?

https://reyero.net

See annoucement

Dries commented 13 September 2005 at 13:28

Oops :)

Jose Reyero commented 13 September 2005 at 15:01

Oops :)

Thanks, Dries.

PS: Sorry you had to stop reviewing patches to answer stupid RTFA kind of questions like mine ;-)

https://reyero.net

news.google.com

bertboerland commented 13 September 2005 at 14:59

nice to see drupal news back, what newhardware can do...

since a couple of days, google's news service offers RSS, so you might want to add drupal news from google to the list.

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Done

Uwe Hermann commented 13 September 2005 at 22:34

Added to Drupal talk, thanks.

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great!

Bèr Kessels commented 13 September 2005 at 20:18

very nice work. (Am I happy y name starts with a B, now only hope that there is no Aaron to start bloggin about drupal :) )

one small thing though. It is fun to read about Boris (or was it Boris?) being annoyed by people calling him about office equipment, but maybe the http://bryght.com/taxonomy/term/40 feed/listing would be more appropriate?

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Done

Uwe Hermann commented 13 September 2005 at 22:23

Done, thanks. The original feed is still in Drupal talk, but removed from Planet Drupal. I added the feed you proposed to Planet Drupal.

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Relative URLs

tostinni commented 13 September 2005 at 21:21

I'm not sure this is the right place, but I think it worth to mention it.
I remember seeing this in another place, but can't find the node.
Well, the problem is that feed is giving relative URL (I'm thinking for example in "Bryght: PodCast Hotel Presentation and Photos" it gives us a link to "The presentation is available here for download in PDF format."
Obviously the URL is wrong because file belong to Bryght files.
Is this bug taken care somewhere ?

I think this has been fixed

Uwe Hermann commented 13 September 2005 at 22:27

I think this has been fixed in HEAD today: http://drupal.org/node/21924. It'll probably take a while until Drupal.org is updated, though.

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Good job.

Prometheus6 commented 14 September 2005 at 01:02

Good job.

There's still work to do, though...Bèr's "Nuke to Drupal Theme conversion: define DOM" post should show HTML tags, but they were eaten by the filtering.

Thanks!

kbahey commented 14 September 2005 at 20:26

Uwe!

Thanks for this very nice feature. It brings Drupal knowledge, thoughts, ideas and rants from a wider and larger community.

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Bad CSS

Chris Johnson commented 15 September 2005 at 18:33

It looks like the CSS has some sort of mistake which is resulting in the left side bar (contributor list) and the right side bar (Drupal navigation) being pushed to the bottom of the page after all of the articles.

Windows 2000, Firefox 1.0.6 at full screen resolution 1280 x 1024, is what I'm using, for what it's worth.

Same happens with firefox on macosx

robertgarrigos commented 15 September 2005 at 20:32

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it's been reported

sepeck commented 16 September 2005 at 05:52

already. Give it a few days and it will get fixed. The freeze is upon us so the few who can change it are distracted.

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use field in Drupal.org user profile

kika commented 19 September 2005 at 17:30

> If you want your own blog added or you know someone
> who you'd like to see added, please post here or contact Uwe
> Hermann.

Ideally there should be a field in Drupal.org user profile "My Drupal-related RSS feed" + explanation how and why this field should be used.

This field is managed by a simple module that at it's simplest form reminds Uwe, but can be extended to take care of moderation or even work 2-way (if I update/remove the RSS url, the feed in agggregator will also be updated/removed)

There are drawbacks -- possible spam and rubbish submissions/updates -- but those are also possible under current schema as well

Check user aggregator

Boris Mann commented 19 September 2005 at 17:49

Prometheus' new user aggregator would enable this.

How to submit a feed to Planet Drupal?

David Latapie commented 19 July 2007 at 03:06

Hi,

I'im writing Drupal articles in English) for some months and I would like to make them retrieved by Planet Drupal.

May I submit my category feed?
If yes, how to?

Thank you.

I would like to add my

mjwest10 commented 14 August 2008 at 02:56

I would like to add my drupal site: http://www.rundrupal.com to planet Drupal. The whole site is Drupal related (mostly geared towards beginners - as thats what I am).