- added a new faq module with administration interface

- improved comment module - code revision
- improved backend module - moreover headlines now work
- (automatically) stripped tabs and trailing whitespaces from
  Jeroen's theme.

- added fine-grained user permission system which allows us to give
  certain users access to specific administration sections only.
    Ex. a FAQ maintainer can only edit the FAQ, and members of an
        "editorial board" can only edit comments, diaries and
         stories, ..
- code review => rewrote include/user.inc which is much easier now
- fixed 4 small bugs

- More updates on the translation support

- initial import of the preliminary translation code.
- added timer.inc for benchmarking purpose
- bugfix for php-clean
- bugfix for account.php
- removed redundant format_data
- ...

- added new feature for evaluating purpose: user rating (mojo, karma)!
- removed tabs from Jeroen's theme

- add ienie-wiene of information

- removed redundant options from hostname.conf

I know, I know, it is getting nasty lately but I have another large commit after nothing but code.

This time I redid the "category"-stuff.  Categories - from now on called sections - are now maintained from the admin pages, can have their own post, dump and timout thresholds as discussed earlier (some weeks ago).  By tomorrow evening users will be able to enable or disable section as well - i.e. to customize the content of drop.org.

- updated/improved discussion engine: it needs additional fine-tuning
  though but I think this is stable enough for public consumption and
  real-life testing.
   ==> a first big step towards a flexible comment engine.

IMPORTANT:
  - Required theme updatins:

    UnConeD: check your $theme->controls() as I added a very, very
             dummy implementation

  - Required database updates:

    alter table users modify mode tinyint(1) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments change sid lid int(6) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments add link varchar(16) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    update comments set link = 'story';

- rewrote the block placement stuff and updated the themes.
  IMPORTANT: you have to drop 2 tables "blocks" and "layout"
             and you have to recreate them again with those
             in database/database.mysql
- integrated the documentation written by UnConeD

- fixed 2 small bugs in account.php
- drastically improved administration section
- drastically revamped story administration:
  added new feature to schedule the publishing of stories
- applied correct naming conventions to submission.php
- fixed 1 small glitch in boxes
- somewhat expanded the documentation
= changed one SQL table
- updated the faq with info on drupal
- ... and more things I forgot about

A batch of preparations for release candidate 2:

 - expanded documentation
   (written by Jeroen)
 - fixed bug in includes/module.inc
 - fixed bug in modules/backend.class
 - renamed some of the SQL tables (!)
 - started making the diary.module truly modular (not finished yet)
 - renamed "admin_blocks" to "boxes"
 - added new functionality to "boxes": apart from PHP boxes, you
   can now create ASCII boxes as well as HTML boxes for those who
   are not confident with PHP.
   (requested by stalor)
 - added drupal-site module to keep track of known drupal sites
 - added small Perl script to generate encrypted CVS passwords

- Jeroen: here are the correct and up-to-date database tables!

- a few more updates

* updated the database files

* added the database tables of drop to CVS: not the content, just the
  table definitions.