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Just some thoughts...

Do we need personal blogs? I can see a use for Group blogs (to announce a great new release) but why would anyone want to read what Jurjen has to say outside the context of a group? I know John has one blog entry, but that might as well have been a group blog for The Hive, or..?

So far I have only used "book pages", never "pages" or "stories". I am confused what the advantages are for one or the other. Confusion is not good, so can't we just delete one or two of those nodetypes?

If we need "pages" to express "product homes", then should we not use the CCK to create a "product home" nodetype instead of just using the standard "page"?

Argh, it looks like I never really got OG working properly. The Hive Group has lots of posts (especially its forum), but the Group page says: "No posts in this group". I'm pretty sure that's just plain wrong.

In case it was just something about og_forum that was broken, I also tried adding a "page" for the codeparse group, but it didn't work either.

Help, I'm going crazy!

Searching drupal.org now...

Ah! Good points! And it makes me think: We should set up a Subversion repository with the entire oehive.org directory - all of the Drupal code and modules.

This will be handy when we need to hack Drupal itself, as I've already had to do in a very trivial way for totalfeeds.module.

Developers should work with new modules and configuration locally, before committing their changes.

We'll promote new changes to a test/sandbox, where everybody can work with common test data online.

I wonder if we could put the oehive.org subdirectory under Subversion control? We'd have to instruct Apache to disallow access to .svn directories. Then, we could use the command-line svn commands for applying patches and updates to oehive.org.

I've installed an RSS feed module (which required a minor hack to node.module), from here:
http://www.gerd-riesselmann.net/archives/2005/11/one-feed-module-to-rule...

It should give us much better notification/coverage via RSS.

Books are currently in Projects, not in Groups.
As a result, when somebody adds a book page, it won't get noticed by the Group (and no notification will be sent).
That is a bit scary.

Oops, this could be another case for mandatory groups...

Although I was not subscribed, I did visit a few groups and they did not seem to have any content or activity, so it did not seem necessary to subscribe. Was I wrong: only after subscribing I got access to the group forum! It appeared that none of the forum topics where marked "Public".

It is important to teach everyone to always look at the "Groups Audience" toggle boxes in everything you create. By default, "Public" should be toggled on and also at least one group.
There is an admin configuration setting that specifies that at least one group must be toggled. I would like that, there is no reason to create content outside of a group.

(Jurjen: You still need to subscribe back onto the "hive" group. :)

I installed EasyLinks, but unfortunately I don't care for it. It seems to work fine on the surface, but it's not well integrated into the rest of Drupal. The /easylinks page doesn't seem to be a node that we can assign categories to, so it's hard to fit it into navigation by category. I've worked around that, but...

It doesn't seem to use normal "node" records, so things listed in EasyLinks do not show up in Search. :( That's not acceptable, and I'm going to look for an alternative.