relationship

"Relationship" I understood as relationships between fields (nodes are many relationships, which are subject of more advanced process).

Wanted features:

1. Powerful and without limitation thanks to the most abstract (see: "everything is a field", compare this to: Global CCK fields, A controversial(?) point: store translations as nodes).
2. Build-in categorization features.
3. Build-in views features (listing fields, not necessary nodes).
4. Build-in menu features.
5. Support for Semantic Web/Microformats/similar.

Observations about current situation:

I've got a views integration for my nodeprofile modules working. This also works for general nodes, not only for nodeprofiles.

By doing the nodefamily views integration I ended in writing the module views_fusion:

With this module its possible to build views which display information of several nodes in one view - useful for tabular views.

This is achieved by defining multiple views, one for each node. Then the views fusion module is used to melt these views to a big one which contains all the information.

More information on this module

This module works great together with the nodefamily module, so it's possible to use nodefamily relations for joining the views/nodes. However I've written the module in a general way so that it's possible for other node relation modules to use it the same way.

Of course testers and feedback are welcome.. :)

I'm copying out jimw's recent comments (http://groups.drupal.org/node/465#comment) to begin a separate thread.

jimw brings up a couple of issues that has been talked about at some length. Specifically he is interested in roles like "volunteer", "presenter" etc. as they relate to Events: