Drupal

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Introduction

Drupal started out in 2001 as a forum content management system (CMS), but has evolved into a strong middle-of-the-road content management framework (CMF). Drupal Core and Drupal.org contribited modules are all GPL v2. Its framework benefits from a well-balanced module, development ecosystem. There are a variety of basic levels of abstraction, with fields, entities, bundles for content, and hooks pretty much all the way down that other modules and themes can work with, building a network of possibilities. Bunches of module state+configuration can be saved as a Feature, and make files and install profiles are used to build and provision new sites.

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• Sites Made with Drupal

Using

• Drupal CMS Benefits - "Drupal is a publishing platform created by our vibrant community and bursting with potential. Use as-is or snap in any of thousands of free designs and plug-ins for rapid site assembly. Developers love our well-documented APIs. Designers love our flexibility. Site administrators love our limitless scalability. Drupal's content management features make it easy to create and manage your site."

Site building overview

• Skill set
• The Drupal Learning Curve: a configurators view - A good overview of techniques and modules Drupal users will most likely learn over time.

Videos:

• Introduction to Site Building with Drupal 7 - Lullabot.Drupalize.me
• Summary of Site Building with Drupal - Lullabot (Drupal 6)

News and blogs

• Planet Drupal
• Drupal Radar

Videos

• Drupal video repositories

Handy

• http://drupal.org/project/issues/user - link to bookmark for viewing drupal.org issues you are participating in and have subscribed to

History

• New template system - July 28, 2004

Future

• Drupal 8 issues
• HTML5 in core

• Drupal.org should collect stats on enabled sub-modules and core modules - January 23, 2011
• Upgrade path for blog module removal - August 29, 2011
• -meta- Unofficial Drupal 8 Framework initiative - July 20, 2011
• Adopt PSR-0 namespace convention for core framework classes - August 5, 2011
• -meta- Make core maintainable - August 21, 2011 [1]
• Establish heuristics for core feature evaluation - September 8, 2011
• Namespace strategy for module-provided classes - September 26, 2011
• Add a CSS preprocessor to core - October 15, 2011
• Convert DBTNG to namespaces; separate Drupal bits - October 25, 2011
• Consider composer.json as a replacement for .info files - January 9, 2012
• Change notification: Proposal for unified namespace organization - January 11, 2012
• PHP project structure survey - January 14 2012
• Introduce Composer for Symfony component management - February 1, 2012