[Imc-drupal-dev] IMC Sydney Drupal Features and Modules

[Phill Clarke]

Hi Everyone,

I'd like to kick off further discussions around the features of Drupal.

My understanding is that there is a core set of features that come
standard with the base Drupal install. The list of these features can
be found on the Drupal website here -

http://drupal.org/features

There's also a whole bunch of add-on modules that can be installed
onto the base build. The full list of these modules, with a brief
description, can be found here -

http://drupal.org/download

It'd be great if people could take some time to review this list and
then we can come to a collective decision regarding which modules we
would like to include in the migration project.

My initial starter list would be as follows:

Article - The article module allows for articles to be organized and
displayed in
a centralized location.

Attached Node - The attached_node module allows users to include a
reference to a node within the body of another node.

Attachment - Allows the attachment of arbitrary files to nodes.

Bbcode - The Drupal bbcode.module adds a BBCode filter to Drupal. This
allows you to use HTML-like tags as an alternative to HTML itself for
adding markup to your posts.

Bookmarks - Gives users with the 'access bookmark' permission their
own private bookmark block, allowing them to add any URL to the list.

captcha - Adds "captchas" to the user registration process.

Collimator - For example, collimator could be used to view the latest
posts to a site. Nodes are then sorted by their last modification time
in descending order.

Daily - The daily module is meant for things like comic strips or
daily headlines. It offers a new node type daily that has a date
associated with it.

Database Administration - The dba module provides Drupal
administrators with direct access to their Drupal database tables from
within the standard Drupal user interface.

Feature - A module that lets you organize and maintain a feature list. 

Filestore2 - a completely rewritten version of filestore which stores
the files on the filesystem instead of in the database.

Image - This module allow users with proper permissions to upload
images into drupal. Thumbnails are created automaticaly.

Img_assist - Greatly simplifies the process of adding inline images to content.

mypage - Provides users with the ability to select among all your
site's taxonomy terms, and then get a customized "mypage" with nodes.

News Page - Allows creation of pages which show syndicated 'news'
items from an aggregator category.

Node Moderation - This module enables users to vote on nodes.

Summary - The summary module provides several options for content
display on a home page in addition to the standard list of recent
posts.

Syndication - Syndication.module offers a web page which centralizes
all of the RSS feeds

Taxonomy Browser - Think of this as a 'build your own category view' page.

Taxonomy Menu - This module adds links to taxonomy terms to the global
navigation menu.

OK a long list of 20 items. I'd really like to encourage everyone to
go and have a look at the complete list of modules on the Drupal site.

We need to decide:
1. Should any more modules be added to the list above?
2. Should any be immediately removed as unsuitable?
3. Following further discussions settle on the exact list of modules
we would like to add.

It may be that item 3 can only be usefully decided upon once we have a
test version of Drupal 4.5 up and running so that we can see/use the
default functionality.

Once we agree on the initial list of Drupal modules for possible
consideration I'll add them to the Wiki.

One thing to keep in mind is that in Drupal "Categories" are known as
"Taxonomy".

Cheers
Phill