General discussion

I see that the download page has been updated...

As per usual, I have some suggestions:

1. Still no descriptions: at the very least, a link to the "README" file would be nice
2. Author info: who made these wonderful modules? Do they have a website where we can go and say nice things?
3. Last updated/version numbers: how current are these modules? Have they been updated since I last downloaded them?
4. Per-module comments: if the author doesn't have the time or resources to keep a module up to date, it would be great to at least have a comments button for every module. Forums and ratings would go on to my pie-in-the-sky wishlist

I want to end by saying that the Drupal team does a fantastic job. I wish nothing more than to see Drupal continue to grow and prosper. The kind of additions I am talk about help foster community interaction, which can only benefit users and developers. If there is any way we can help out, let us know.

It seems that news and the forum on the Drupal side are not crawled by google although the rest of the web-site is listed in full. One of the possible reasons may be in using session IDs by Drupal. See this thread on phpbb.com. Is there a simple way to disable session IDs for certain user agents?

Thanks

i sent this in as a feature request, but wanted to get thoughts from the forums too:

my fellow admin and i were discussing how it would be great if, when an item is submitted to the queue, you could post comments about it, for all the people able to see it before it is officially "published". once it is all set to go, and is added into the main body of the site, those comments would be scrapped. just think it would be a nice feature, especially if the content is designed more as something that needs to edited instead of just approved.

I was wondering why the dynamic PHP pages of Drupal are not compressed using the lowest gzip compression setting? The lowest level of gzip compression uses a tiny amount of CPU resources for a huge decrease in page size.

Would placing the code:

include "./polls/poll_cookie.php";
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

at the top of all .php files in the root directory work?

Thanks in advance.

I ran across Gallery, which is hands down the best image gallery system in existence:

http://gallery.menalto.com/

It can be a standalone site image gallery, or it can be used as a module to many other CMS platforms (XOOPS, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, phpWebSite, Geeklog, and phpBB2).

Anyone considered porting it to Drupal? I'd offer, but I suck at PHP, and have very little time to do so.

Shane

How hard would it be to fix the book.module module to manage proper 'previous'/'next' links? Basically, I find it extremely painfull to read a book, because the "next" link doesn't always do what I think it should. Instead of descending down a chapter, and then having to click on "up" to go back up a level, it should just naturally flow so that the *next* page is always, well, the next page. When reading a book, one naturally turns the page, in order, one at a time. If