Purpose

There are a lot of feeds that come from Drupal.org. If you want to know everything, you can subscribe to them all, but then you'd have a lot of feeds to read. The author(s) behind this site have already read them all and highlighted the most important pieces.

History

There used to be a really nice site called DrupalDigest.com It was run by moshe with help from webchick and add1sun and it was glorious. Then the registration lapsed and a link-seller took the site. This was sad.

So, now I've rebuilt a similar site in a new place and am offering a list of CVS commits that are important and a list of module/theme releases that are important. See the front page for more details on these. Hopefully we can get back to glorious.

Future

There are a lot of other features I would like to provide towards the goal of "making Drupal more accessible to busy professionals." One goal is to provide valuable and accurate answers to age-old questions like "when will the next version of Drupal be ready" or "will featureXYZ be included in the next version of Drupal?" If you are interested in collaborating on that piece, please contact me

Colophon

This site is a simple aggregator. It uses the FeedAPI module to pull in some feeds. It uses the FeedAPI and Views integration to provide the listings of feed-items and the rss feeds for the major feeds.

For the mailing list based feeds it uses Mailhandler module. I had various problems with it which resulted in 1) moving to Amazon ec2 so I can control which php modules are available 2) playing with different "extra commands" to get the one that works for Dreamhost.

I specifically chose to use Bluemarine theme because it is a great theme for editing/administering sites (compact design) and because I wanted the site to be plain looking. If it looked all fancy you might actually read it. Instead, you are supposed to read the feeds.

I used FeedBurner to do a 307 redirect from the major feed urls to some FeedBurner "MyBrand" feed urls. This way I maintain control and the ability to leave FeedBurner some day and still get all their fancy statistics. This feature is only in the 5.x-1.x-dev release of FeedBurner module (as of December 17, 2007).

Other modules that help in some lesser and more obvious capacity: Poormanscron, Google Analytics, Hotkey, Meta Tags, OpenID, Pathauto, Token, Update Status, XMLSitemap, and DB Maintenance.

ToDo List

1. Get the submitted by out of the rss feed version of the aggregated content nodes
2. Share with world, get more contributors
3. Give credit to the person who created the release node - i.e. this should give credit to dopry.
4. Get the module name into the title of cvs commit messages
5. Make the original link more prominent in all "aggregated content" nodes
6. Magical future predictor system

ToDone List

1. Get mailhandler working so you can get mailing list summaries as well
2. Basic site up and running, invite contributions from people who did the digest.