drupal 5.0

Hi,

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct section, but I posed a similar question on the main drupal forum and received no replies on the subject, so i'm hoping someone can assist me here if possible.

It is here. Lots of bug fixes a few new features.

I think there will be 1 more alpha and then we will get into the beta's

There is still some payment gateways that need to be updated. and some other modules that have been broken. Also I have a list of TODO's and FIXME's all through the code that also needs to be fixed.

We have been working hard and have fixed many more bugs.

We have ported the Authorize.net to use the new ec_receipt API. I was actually quite impressed how easy it is now to create a gateway, esp where it is a gateway like Authorize.net where the input form in on your site. This is now an inline gateway and people will just load the credit card details directly into the review page, and the order will not be submitted until the payment has been accepted. This should get rid of a lot of these pending transactions that never go anywhere.

Well over the weekend I did a lot of work on E-Commerce in developing a new interface which creates a much better customer interface.

In the past we have really only had 1 way of dealing with customers and that was with the address module. This was not a very good way of storing the information, or being able to extend the information captured. In fact in some situations it just doesn't work.

Hey everyone -

I just got my own local copy of drutex working for drupal 5.0 (I still need to get an install of latex for my server; its a hosted server - I'm looking into server farms, but haven't been able to find anything reasonable yet)

I just installed drupal for the first time, so this was sort of a get oriented with the system project. I expected it to take a long time.... it took 5 minutes! (granted, I still have to install latex on my server - but it appears drutex is working fine)

I find myself in the position where I need to set up a commerce site in a relatively short timeframe, and I really want to get the most out of Drupal and ECommerce... so my question becomes 4.7 or 5.0?

One thing I would be really interested in seeing is a benchmark suite run on the current drupal.org installation, and then again once it's upgraded to 5.0. Is this something that could be done or is being planned? It would be an underestimate of performance gains to the extent that certain performance patches are applied directly to d.o when fixed in core.

Performance upgrades from the CHANGELOG include:

In preparation for starting the 5.0 drumbeat, I was able to get killes (thx Gerhardt!) to run some analysis on drupal.org. I think if we can keep up this kind of growth (and with the spiking numbers of developers, projects, and activity on the site I think we can) 2007 could be a sort of tipping point for Drupal!

UPDATE: here's my blog post on the subject.

The source XLS file is also attached for your own viewing pleasure.

Hey fellow Microformatters,

I've been working on a small side-element to Microformats in Drupal and it will be ready to commit to the CVS at some point tommorow.

I have created microid.module, which creates a MicroID hash in the user profile.

At the moment, it's a little hard coded. First off all, there is the function that creates the hash:

Now, what I do with this is I get $user->email to generate the email part of the hash, thats fine. But for the profile side, I have specified that there must be a field called profile_homepage. The reason for this is that the URL you want to create the hash with should be your homepage, thats how you will be identified.

I plan to modify to module according to Drupal 5 requirements. It can be expected in December month. I assume that there are not so things to rewrite, because the biggest part of the module is Drupal-independent code.
Watch the project website to track the upgrade.