- Changed the authentication and login scheme as discussed on the mailing
  list.
- Fixed the export function in book.module (patch my Julian).
- Fixed the comment alignment (comments got truncated).

- format_username() now takes a second optional parameter which gives the
  real name of the user.

Rest
- updated the calls to format_username() where appropriate to show the name
  of the user instead of the account id. Clicking on a name will still give you
  the account info etc. If you find a place where the real name is not shown
  let me know.

- blog.module:
   + fixed visual glitch with 'read more' link (blog comments)
   + made it possible to delete your last blog item
   + fixed timestamp bug when previewing a new blog
   + fixed potential problem with blog_save()
   + fixed a few HTML/XHTML tinkos.

- statistics.module:
   + "yoursite.com" should no longer show up under "external referrers"
   + fixed "Referers of the last 31 years 37 weeks 1 hour 46 min 40 sec" bug
   + xhtml-ified

- node.inc:
   + fixed watchdog message

- import.module:
   + small block improvement

- Tidied up node.inc and node.php a bit.

- Fixed annoyance in comment.inc.

Extremely large commit:

- Fixed tiny quote problem in account.php.

- Fixed tiny bug in comment.inc.

- Fixed tiny bug in comment.module.

- Fixed tiny bug in meta.module.

- Simplified user_access() API.

- Rewrote link system: still needs fine-tuning and testing so don't
  upgrade if you are running a production site. ;)

  Updated all modules and themes to reflect this change.  All other
  themes and modules need updating too!

- Added a brand-new access.module which allows you to manage 'roles'
  (groups) and 'permissions' ... (inspired by Zope's system).

    + Once installed, click the help-link for more information.

    + See updates/2.00-to-x.xx.sql for the SQL updates.

- Modified loads of code to use our new access.module.  The system
  still has to mature though: new permissions have to be added and
  existing permissions need stream-lining.  Awaiting suggestions.

- As a direct result of the new access system, I had to rewrite the
  way the top-level links in admin.php are rendered and displayed,
  and xhtml-ified admin.php while I was at it.

TODO

- Home-brewed modules need updating, home-brewed themes not.
  (Examples: file.module, trip_link.module)

- As soon we *finished* the refactoring of the user system (KJ has
  been working on this refactoring already) we should consider to
  embed this role and permission code into account.module ...

- Changed '?meta=' to 'index.php?meta='.  Patch by Simone.

Oops, a rather large commit:

- Changed meta.module, node.module and index.php to use comma-seperated
  lists of attributes rather then "foo=a,bar=b" lists.  This makes it a
  a lot easier to use both modules.  In addition, error handling can be
  discarded as it can't be made any simpler, really ...

  It fits rather nicely in Drupal's design so I'm getting more and more
  happy with this meta.module (but we are not 100% there yet).

- node.module, node.inc:

   + Improved the node-related admin interface so that navigating back
     and forth the administrative menus is made both easier and faster.

   + Removed some redundant database fields from the node table.  See
     2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

   + Added 2 news hooks called "node_insert" and "node_update".  Just
     like this is the case with the existing hook "node_delete" these
     new hooks will automatically get called when a node has been
     inserted or udpated.  Note that this is an optional call-back that
     only needs to be implemented when required.  With the addition of
     these two hooks, the node mechanism (version 1) is pretty well
     completed.

- watchdog.module:
   + Fixed bug whit the 'regular messages' query in the watchdog.module.

- book.module:
   + Fixed bug in book.module: the 'parent' was not set properly when
     updating a book page.
   + Made it so that older versions of a book page are automatically
     reactived upon deletion of the most recent version, i.e. when
     doing a version roll-back.

- comment.inc:
   + Undid Remco's patch to comment.inc; it does not work in some cases.


- conf.module:
   + Fine-tuned some of the options in conf.module a bit.

- marvin.theme:
   + Visual changes to make it look better on Windows browsers.  Mind
     to give some feedback on this?
   + Fixed 3 HTML typos/bugs.
   + XHTML-ified the theme at a best effort basis; I didn't carry the
     XHTML specification with me.
   + Made use of the theme_slogan variable to display the site's slogan.
   + As soon we have at least one valid XHTML theme we can wonder on how
     to integrate other XML namespaces (cfr. MathML story at drop.org).

- database.mysql:
   + Updated database.mysql so that it contains all the latest "database
     patches".

- Added meta.module, an improved index.module that allows you to
  associate different collections - think "combobox" here - with
  different content types, all hardcoded references to "section"
  have been removed and the admin-friendliness of the meta admin
  section has been slightly improved.

  I'll keep working on it during the weekend - if time allows me
  to.  Moreover, I'll focus on the usability/user-friendlines of
  the meta admin section as well as graceful input-checking, and
  error-handling.

  Requires an SQL update, see updates/2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

  Index.module will be removed, or meta.module will be renamed as
  soon we can ditch one of them.  For now, having both coexist is
  not going to harm your setup and is useful to make a comparison
  and / or to migrate from index.module to meta.module.

  Index.module is de-coupled form the rest of the system so you
  will have to use meta.module after having upgraded.  You have
  been warned.

- Updated CHANGELOG.

- Improved watchdog and submission throttle: removed redundant code,
  streamlined the existing code, added new watchdog type called "httpd"
  for Apache errors.  The latter should make it easier to add watchdog
  filters later on.

- Clarified some watchdog messages.

  '=' instead of ';' and ':'.  It is considered to be more readable.
  --> A _first_ step towards and improved index.module.  Stay tuned
      for more.

  + Important:
     If you update from CVS - apply the queries in 2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

- Changed all 'attribute' to 'attributes'.

  + Important:
     If you update from CVS - apply the queries in 2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

  + Important:
     This might require to ieni-wieni small update to your custom
     themes and/or node-related modules:
      - themes: node_index($node->attribute) -> node_index($node)
      - node modules: attribute -> attributes

- fixed the trailing | in some cases.
- removed theme_morelinks().
- added node_links().
- simplified BaseTheme->links().
- updated themes.

Notes
- the new links system is taking form, but concider it beta. There might still
  be some major changes ahead so I suggest waiting a little longer before
  modifying your theme to take advantage of it.

This a rather large commit that needs a lot of fine-tuning.  If you
update, you'll break your site as you need switching from structure
to index.module: so this can be considered an intermediate commit.

If you upgrade, and you are welcome to, just create a collection
called "section" (for now) and assign your nodes some attributes
in the described format.

Feedback and bugreports are welcomed.  Questions will be answered.

CHANGES:

- comment system:
   + when replying to a node (rather then to a comment), that
     node is displayed above the reply form.
   + when replying to a comment (rather then to a node), that
     comment is displayd above the reply form.

- removed structure.inc, removed structure.module.

- node.inc:
   + added 2 new node functions called 'node_attribute_edit()' and
     'node_attribute_save()' used to 'hook in' any indexing system
    including your home-brewed stuff if you'd want to.  Currently,
    index.module is the facto default index system.

    See story.module for usage.

- book.module, story.module, poll.module, page.module, forum.module:
   + added preview functionality to administration section (via node
     module).
   + removed all references to structure.inc (category, topic).

- moderate.module:
   + removed all references to structure.inc (category, topic).

- book.module, story.module, page.module, forum.module:
   + increased the sizes of some textareas.

- submit.php:
   + removed all references to structure.inc (category, topic).

- marvin.theme:
   + removed dead code: function story() was depricated.

- unconed.theme:
   + removed hardcoded references to drop.org.

- marvin.theme, unconed.theme, jeroen.theme, yaroon.theme, example.theme:
   + removed all references to structure.inc (category, topic).

TODO:

- file.module, trip_link.module:
   + update preview functionality:
       see story.module for example.
   + remove references to 'cid' and 'tid', use 'attribute' instead:
       see story.module for example.

- extend and build upon index.module as well as making it configurable

- Fixed inconsistent behavior of 'node_save()' and simplified the
  algorithm a bit. --> Needs testing!  I improved this last night
  and only got around to testing this rather briefly/quickly.  It
  was to late already. ;-)

  (This is part of a larger set of changes I'm slowly working on
  which I will feed to CVS in steps after more testing.)

- Added 2 new node functions called 'node_attribute_edit()' and
  'node_attribute_save()' used to 'hook in' any indexing system
  including your home-brewed stuff if you'd want to.

- Added improved node scheduler:

   + Automatically post node at date 'xx/xx/xx, xx:xx'.

   + Automatically queue node at date 'xx/xx/xx, xx:xx'.

   + Automatically dump node at date 'xx/xx/xx, xx:xx'.

  Requires a database update, see ./updates/2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

- Refactored the admin interface of node.module.  It is only a start
  but it should show the direction we are going.

   + The new interface is easier to extend with new functionality
     and operations.  New "edit xxx" links can easily be added on
     our way.

   + The new interface tries to cover all content- or node-related
     functions.  Thus making a special admin interface for each new
     node type redundant.  To demonstrate this, I removed the admin
     hook from page.module and forum.module.  This removes quite a
     bit of logic from the invidual modules which is a good sign if
     you ask me.

     A centralized GUI or interface covering all node-related
     administration should make Drupal easier to administer.

TODO:

- All node-related nodes need updating.  This should be trivial and
  I'll hapilly tackle this later tonight.

- There will be bugs, and I'm still working on this but I would like
  to get some feedback (from Natrak et all) on both user-friendliness
  and usability of this new interface.  I'm still working on it as we
  speak ...

- Moved most of the options in structure.module to node.module.  The
  structure.module either needs work, or replacement by index.module:
  see "admin > node > node settings".

  It will do for now and it can always made better when we can think
  of a better solution; it is the best I could think of.   Now what?
  index.module or structure.module?  I'm currently pro index.module.

- Drastically simplified "variable.inc".

- Removed most dependecies on structure.module from all content related
  modules.  Thus making our modules more modular.  ;)

- Fixed calculation glitch in queue.module.

- Fixed potential function name clash/conflict in rating.module, and
  simplified some code on my way.

- Started removing all global variables $status and $rstatus.  Global
  variables are "yucky" so in near future, we will replace all global
  $status variables by a call to node_status().  Originally, $status
  was only introduced as a temporary hack and nothing is as permanent
  as a temporary hack so I took it out when still possible.

- Changed the watchdog messages a bit.

  When $field was 0 it would return true, causing SQL errors. Seems to
  convert the string its being matched with to a numeric, normally 0. Forced
  $field to be treated as a string by enclosing it in quotes.

- Removed includes/timer.inc: it has been integrated in common.inc.

- Fixed a bug in node.php: UnConeD forgot to update 1 node_get_object().

- I changed the look of theme_morelink() a bit: it might not look better,
  but at least the output is "correct".

- Various small improvements.

- Improved node_get() so that it will try to skip one additional query
  if possible (ie. to reduce the number of queries).

- Automatically removed tabs and trailing spaces from the poll.module.

- Added the "delete" hook for node-modules. When called, a module should do additional clean-up if necessary.

- Updated all node-modules

- Improved node_preview().  Fixes a problem with poll.module.

- Redid settings.module and even renamed it to conf.module.
    * Settings are now grouped in basic categories like "system
      settings", "module settings" and "filters".
  * Added new settings to make Drupal easier to configure and
  to make some aspects like the watchdog scale better.

- Renamed includes/settings.php to includes/conf.php.

- Added filter support to conf.module and introduced filter hooks so
  modules can implement and export new filters.  Example filters are
  an HTML filter (implemented), a profanity filter, an url converter,
  ASCII smileys to images filter and so on ...

- Reworked the check_* functions: user contributed content/input is
  only verified and filtered once in its lifespan.

NOTES

- Altough this is a large commit, no database changes are required.

- Removed debug output.

- Created 2 new functions:
    + path_uri(): returns the fully-qualified URI of your drupal site.
    + path_img(): returns the image directory or http://image-server.com/
                  in case you prefer to load-balance bandwidth usage.

  Replaced all occurences of the variable "site_url" with path_uri()
  and removed "site_url" from "setting.module".

- Drastically simplified the node_save() API, which should make the
  node-forms more secure.  Updated "story.module", "book.module",
  "forum.module", "page.module" and "node.module" to reflect this
  change.  This is needs more testing so hit it, beat it, tease it.

- Fixed an occasional glitch in the configuration file loading logic.

- Made "queue.module" display an informative notice when an anonymous
  user tries accessing the moderation queue.

- Updated the hard-coded information in drupal.module a bit.

CHANGES:

- Added moderator support to topics.

CHANGES:

- Added moderator permissions to nodes.

- Added moderator support to structure.module.

- Added new moderate.module.

- Renamed moderation.module to queue.module to avoid confusing.
  Updated theme yaroon as it seems to have a hard-coded reference
  to moderation.module.

- Polished on:
   + account.module: improved access list
   + fixed HTML typo in node.module

ACTIONS:

- Jeroen: can jeroen2.theme be removed from ./themes/yaroon?

Welp.  Large commit ahead.

CHANGES:

- Added "read" and "write" permissions into drupal but removed
  it again because - when finished after 3 hours of work - it
  was considered nothing but added complexity that didn't buy
  us anything. :I

  (I'll explain this in detail on the mailing list, I guess.)

- Added a very simple help.module to group all available
  documentation on a single page.

- Fixed bug in node_control(), book.module: UnConeD forgot to
  global $user when updating the combobox code.

- Removed static wishlist.module: in future, the wishlist can
  be maintained as a page in our collaborative book.

- Revised most of settings.module: tidied up the code and the
  descriptions to accompany the settings and introduced a new
  "default maximum number of nodes to display on the main page"
  variable.

- Revised most of comment.module: the administration interface
  looks better now, integrated node permissions, and -finally-
  made it possible to delete comments.

- Polished on:
   + account.module
   + structure.module
   + locale.module
   + module.module
   + forum.module

- Form-ified:
   + account.php
   + account.module
   + setting.module
   + cvs.module
   + submit.php
   + comment.module
   + forum.module
   + book.module
   + page.module
   + locale.module

- Updated CHANGELOG

INFO:

- Designed a "generic tracker system with optional backends"
  on paper.  The idea is to allow registered users to hot-list
  certain topics, individual nodes or threads (comments) and
  to "plug-in" output backends like - for instance - an e-mail
  digest.  The design requires "intelligent blocks" though.


TODO:

- I want to tidy up the headline.module and backend.class as
  well as merge in headlineRSS10.module.  Julian spent quite
  some time working on headline.module but I'm not sure what
  he changed and whether he'd contribute it back?

CHANGES:

- Added new form_* functions to common.inc, used for building
  forms: it should improve 'stability' (no form typos, every-
  thing properly escaped/unescaped) and should help providing
  a very consistent user interface (wrt forms).

- Adjusted node.module to use the new form functions.
  (Can be used as an example.)

- Adjusted book.module to use the new form functions.
  (Can be used as an example.)

- Merged function.inc into common.inc!

- Slowly removing all global $status and $rstatus variables:
  use node_status() instead.

TODO:

- Apart from implementing the permission system, I'll spend
  some time updating most modules today and tomorrow to use
  the new form functions.

- Addition: added a new, tiny forum module: I will use this forum
  module to develop and test the permission system along with the
  regular nodes.  And hopefully, this forum module will grow into
  a very useable piece of code for drop.org.

  Requires a new SQL table "forum", see 2.00-to-x.xx.sql.

- Removed 1 unused hook from page.module.

- Removed 1 unused function from comment.inc.

- Fixed an error in module_rehash_blocks() that didn't handle '-symbols.
- Removed some module depencies. Drupal will now run (sorta) even if there
  are no modules installed.
- Changed theme_link() to check if certain modules are installed before
  offering a link to them.

Todo
- Check all SQL queries to make sure they are addslashes'ed correctly.
- Check the effects of changing the PHP magic_quotes setting.
- Make the theme_link() function to be customizable either via the admin
  page and/or in the module itself.

- Fixed bug when node-navigation-combobox wouldn't select the correct item if drupal was run from a sub-directory.

- Addition: added a "promote" field to the node table, which
  makes "promoting nodes" to the main page possible.  Stories
  and reviews could be promoted by default, but - on accasion
  a good book entry could be manually promoted too.  Thus all
  existing content types can be shown on the main page, not
  just stories.

  Requires a SQL update, see 2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

- Addition: implemented "auto-post new submissions" feature
  to disable or by-pass the moderation queue in addition to
  "moderate new submissions".

  TODO: admin moderation versus registered user moderation.

- Addition: added category and topic support to page.module.

- Addition: made it so that comments can be enabled/disabled on
  a node per node basis, rather then on a category per category
  basis.  The default settings for each individual category can
  be changed though.

  Example: it can be setup so that - by default - all stories
  posted to the category "article" will have comments enabled
  but stories submitted to "announcement" not.

  Different configuration schemes can easily be added later.

  Requires a SQL update, see 2.00-to-x.xx.sql/database.mysql.

- Addition: made submit.php only use categories that users can
  actually submit new content to.

Another big update so please read this carefully because there is important information hidden in it.

Made it so that we can disable/enable comments on a category by category basis. In order to accomplish this I had to make a few (*temporary*) changes.

I moved all comment code from the "module level" (eg. story.module) to the "node level".  It was nothing but the logical next step in nodifying drupal.  This enables us to add comments to all existing content types including book entries.  But also for book entries, this to can be toggled on and off. :-)

Moreover module writers don't have to worry about the complex comment logic: it is "abstracted" away.  This implies that story.module got smaller, faster and easier to comprehend. :-)

In order to accomplish this, I had to update ALL THEMES, which I did - and on my way I updated Goofy, Oranzh and UnConeD - with the previous changes.  All themes are up-to-date now!  I also had to remove the [ reply to this story ] links, and temporally re-introcuded the "Add comment" button in the "Comment control".  Tempora lly that is, UnConeD. ;)

I plan to upgrade drop.org either tommorow or wednesday so test away if you have some time to kill. ;)

Oh, I also fixed a few bugs and made various small improvements.

- forgot to disable some debug information

Large commit, read it carefully, and make the required changes to
your theme:

- corrected some missing translations in story.module.  Oops!
- grealty simplified the "moderation threshold mechanism"(tm) so
  that module writers don't have to worry about this.  As a result
  story.module and book.module became a bit smaller and easier to
  grasp.
- greatly simplified new "category" and "topic" code which is soon
  going to replace the "section" code.  Needs more work though so
  hang on thight.
- includes/section.inc and modules/section.module are replaced by
  includes/structure.module and modules/structure.module.
- beautified example.theme a bit without adding HTML complexity:
  it is a good example but still useful as a theme
- made theme example use "categories" and "topics"
    --> TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND UPDATE YOUR THEME
- made theme marvin use "categories" and "topics"
    --> TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND UPDATE YOUR THEME
- added 2 new "story listings" to administrator interface of
  story.module to verify story integrity.
- optimized comment table a bit (work in progress)

- make the version CVS function a bit better