Comments | giza: Two quick Drupal things

giza

Two quick Drupal things

Feb 18, 2009 22:37

The folks running Drupal.org thought they would upgrade the site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 tonight and proceeded to take the entire site down, not even leaving a copy in any sort of "read only" mode. It was supposed to be back up by 5 PM EST. Clearly that has not happened yet. Not only has the Drupal team been not very forthcoming on what the ( Read more... )

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pengolodh_sc February 19 2009, 04:00:52 UTC

Is the url in your first link meant to be drupa.org or drupal.org?

giza February 19 2009, 04:02:15 UTC

D'oh, that would be a typo! Thank you for catching that.

meow_tuna February 19 2009, 04:10:54 UTC

GOod shit Recovery.Gov - Pity you haven't got CLEAN URLS ENABLED!

rustitobuck February 19 2009, 07:03:53 UTC

I use Drupal for a coupla sites too. It's good stuff...good enough to endure PHP for.

tgeller February 19 2009, 07:20:38 UTC

This happened at the same time as a seemingly awkward upgrade to Acquia Drupal.

toumal February 19 2009, 13:07:18 UTC

I'm not a huge fan of drupal, and that said I run a drupal site myself. I don't see Drupal as ideal for the same reason I believe "Generic Database Designs" are stupid.

giza February 19 2009, 13:13:27 UTC

What I get out of it is economy of scale. I currently run 5 different sites that are Drupal-powered (soon to be 6). Rather than learning a different CMS for each, it's just a matter of installing different modules for each site, as per its requirements. Lets me do more with less effort.