I find I constantly refer to my "My recent posts" tab to keep track of responses to questions, comments, and so forth. Extremely useful. Like others, though, I am guilty of posting a useless comment to a thread (i.e. "just tracking this!") in order to keep track of an important thread.

When lots of users do this over time, it means lots of threads indicate they have new comments available, but the new comment turns out to add nothing useful to the discussion. For trackers, this means a few wasted minutes each time we go to check out a thread where this has occurred.

Absent a better method, I don't really mind people using the "just tracking" comment method to follow a thread. (And absent a better method, I will continue to do so myself. But given Drupal's potential (and the number of Drupal.org users), isn't it silly that, as far as I can tell, there is no other easy, silent method for tracking forum threads?

Issues queues allow us to subscribe via email, but this is actually not very useful. What I would like to see is something like a "track this" link that allows users simply to click on it, and then refer in a tabbed window to a list of tracked posts like the "My recent posts," indicating which has been updated. This could be a "My tracked posts" tab right next to "My recent posts."

I just registered for a new account on drupal.org. I clicked the link in my email to change my password on the website. I changed my password. Then when I try to log in with that password to http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/user it says it doesn't recognize my username or password. I have tried resetting my password a few times, still no luck.
Any admin help appreciated!

Hi all,

I regularly check the "Download" section, ordered by date, by name and by category. There is, however, something which I feel should be corrected.
- When you browse the modules "by name", you get 1,490 modules (counted on Jan. 27, 2008).
- When you add up all the numbers in the "by category" listing, however, you get a whopping 2,654 modules.

Hope this is the correct place for this question...

Using 5.6 -- attempting to install modules directly from CVS using drupal handbook published commands:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-5--1-0 -d moduleName contributions/modules/moduleName

And module version number info is missing from the admin panel module list...

I'm getting the modules fine -- (can turn them on an off). Ran update, and no joy. Version column is empty.

http://rotodatabase.com/

I recently started using views and panels to design my page layouts, and over the last few days there have been zero issues.
Now I am getting and error message when I enter "blocks list". I can access "Blocks add" just fine, but I just can't see my existing blocks.

is there some limit on the amount of blocks I can have? The list is long I know, its a baseball site and I am averaging about four "Blocks" or "Views" per team.

I found some FF2 toolbar search engines for drupal, but none of them had autocomplete, so I made my own, using a local search glue layer. This actually isn't specific to drupal, but now I have drupal auto-complete. Would people in charge of drupal.org consider adding something like this to the api server? I bet it would run even faster if the auto-completion was local, and it would be handy for everyone to have autocomplete in their toolbar (this works for IE7, too, I think, and maybe Safari.)

here's how I did it:

make an html file on your localhost (or wherever you want) with this in the head:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Drupal 5 API" href="drupal-5-api-search.xml">

make a drupal-5-api-search.xml search file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>

Drupal 5 API
Search Drupal 5 API
drupal api 5
http://api.drupal.org//misc/favicon.ico