Two quick Drupal things

[giza]

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 holdup is, they have the nerve to ask for donations while the site is down.

I'm sure there's more to the story of the botched site upgrade than we know so far, and I'd love to hear their side of things when the upgrade is all said and done.


And in more positive Drupal news, the Obama team has embraced Drupal, by using it to power Recovery.gov. Good for them.

Full article: Why the White House's Embrace of Drupal Matters

Drupal is the same software that powers the Anthrocon website, my website, and many other websites out there. Naturally, I am pleased by this. :-)
 

Comments

[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

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

[giza.livejournal.com]

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

[meow-tuna.livejournal.com]

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

[rustitobuck.livejournal.com]

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

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

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

[toumal.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.