Drupal 4.5.0 battle plans

Dries - March 23, 2004

With Drupal 4.4.0 around the corner, it is time to share what each of us are up to. If you plan to work on something in particular, or to contribute to Drupal in one way or another, please share your personal battle plan in the comments. Please refrain from posting wishlists: this time around we are merely interested in what you actually plan to contribute in the next few months. So, what can we expect from you?

Here is my personal battle pl

Dries - March 23, 2004

Here is my personal battle plan:

• Usability improvements. I'm determined to further improve Drupal's usability. Despite the fact this has been a continual process and that we made steady progress, we are not quite there yet. Common tasks such as setting up a vocabulary should become a lot more intuitive.
• Profile module improvements. I already rewrote the profile module in the new development branch and will continue to work on it.
• Forum module improvements. I already committed some first forum module improvements to the development branch but will be adding more.
• Aggregator module improvements: make (composite) feed pages pageable and add a setting to define how many news items should be kept in the database before older items are pruned.
• Configurable menus.

The list is not complete and is subject to change but I think it pretty much summarizes the key points on my personal agenda for the coming months. Of course, everyone is invited to help. In addition, I'd also like to help with:

• Adding basic document management, and image handling in particular, to core. I want to add images to my posts and possibly even PDF documents.
• Adding a node-level permission system (ACLs) to core.
• Rewriting the search module and rethinking the search API.
• Improving Drupal's localization.

(Note: I might add more points later.)

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