how much do I want to know about drupal?

Submitted by connolly on Wed, 2006-08-09 09:59. ::

breadcrumbs fell over, again, today. Disk full. Probably the spam database filled up with drek. Again. While googling for reports of similar problems, I discovered drupal 4.7 is out since May 1. They tout TimBL's blog in their release announcement. I wonder if they'd help us upgrade. Well, they do provide a video about upgrading. Maybe I'll find time to watch it.

Meanwhile, I discovered a couple interesting articles on the design/architecture of drupal and how PHP is used: Drupal Programming from an Object-Oriented Perspective and the toungue-in-cheek The Road to Drupal Hell.

I'm not sure how much of this I really want to know. As I said back in my october item on PHP angst, I'm mostly playing simple customer when it comes to drupal. But I'm having a hard time investing in technology that I don't know inside and out.

In a #swig discussion where I was considering Zope alternatives (the one-big-file design has lost its charm), it occurred to me that I have read (parts of) the source to most everything that currently backs my personal web site Zope, the python interpreter, libc, various bits of debian infrastructure, and the linux kernel. I wonder when that will become totally impractical, and I'll understand my web site no more than I understand my car.

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help from #drupal-support folks
Submitted by connolly (OpenID: http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/) on Mon, 2006-11-13 14:10.

I did get some help in IRC; On 15 Aug:

<DanC> Hi. As noted in the drupal 4.7 announcement, TimBL uses drupal
for his blog. it's down. again. the disk keeps filling up. The guy who
set it up isn't around. the mysql logs are huge. Where should I check
for debug settings?

<killes> DanC: you don't run mysql with logging enabled, do you?

...

<DanC> ok, http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 is live now
(linked from http://drupal.org/drupal-4.7.0 )
<killes> If I'd blog, I'd blog abotu the day I saved TimBL's blog. :p

And my notes from 20 Aug say:

I should be going to #drupal-support rather than #drupal. On the other hand, they should use #drupal as the support channel and name the developer channel something different if they really don't want people like me to wander in there.

They advised against using the debian package as it's several major releases out of date. I expressed some hope that they'd update the debian package.

Today's #drupal helper was walkah. chx also offered to help...

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