A couple of days ago I started my first Drupal 7 site for a client, and while I was doing that I was listening to the latest Lullabot podcast and Angie was talking a little about the Drupal 8 (very briefly) and about what Larry Garfield was planning for blocks, in that their will be a completely new model which will be more of a pull model instead of the current push model which is currently in Drupal <= 7. This took me back to Drupalcon SF at the Core Developers Summit and other breakout sessions where we started talking about this.
I did some work today and cleaned up my website so it is not a spam sink and updated all the modules to the latest version of Drupal 5.x. Next is to upgrade it to Drupal 6 ready for Drupal 7. Also I got rid of CAPTCHA and I am now using Mollom which should stop the spam.
I have a number of articles I want to publish and now I have a place to publish these again, and will start publishing again.
After many months of resistance I finally upgraded my site to Drupal 5.
OK, it was not resistance, I just didn't have time to do it. So now I have done it and I am managed to log into my site after Dreamhost upgraded to PHP 5.2 and I then couldn't log in with 4.7+
Oh well it is done now, so I can move forward and do some cool stuff.
Well it is that time again, and Melbourne is having it's second Meetup.
We have taken up a kind offer from Luke Hodges @ Sustainable Living Foundation to use their premise and internet to make this a much better meetup that people will learn more and gain more from this event.
see http://groups.drupal.org/node/993 for more information and the siteup sheet so we have a good idea on how many people are going to be comming.
I hope to see a good turn out, and hopefully better than we did have last time.
This has been a heroic effort by everyone, and this is the Greatest version of Drupal yet. This release has had the most changes every for any release, and the most contributors.
So where does this leave E-Commerce. Well as I have said since I took over the maintenance that I (we) would be aiming to release E-Commerce 1 month after 4.7 was released. So now the the timer is ticking, and we should have a release by June 1.
This is quite approprate that today before 4.7 was released I posted to the E-Commerce group a request for ideas on what people would like to see in 4.8. Go and see http://groups.drupal.org/node/248 to see what has been added, and add more to it.
Here we will be talking about development and processes for E-Commerce. Once Dries gets back from holiday I will be discussing more with him about getting this moved to drupal.org.
Also on freenode there has been set up a new IRC chat area #drupal-ecommerce which should also help.
I am thinking about having a Melbourne Drupal Meetup, I am not too sure where or when we are going to have this, but I thought that firstly I would try and find all the Melbourne Drupalers and see how many are interested.
If anyone is interested you can contact me at [email protected] and we can arrange a time and place.
