upgrading to drupal 4.5

Submitted by Alaa on Fri, 05/11/2004 - 16:01.
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drupal 4.5 was released a few weeks ago, it has many improvements and new features and IMO we should upgrade EGLUG installation ASAP

tasks required for the upgrade:

  1. port our custom modules to 4.5
    • LinCount (done by MohammedSameer)
    • Bidi (done by MohammedSameer)
  2. port contrib modules we use
    • glossary
    • wiki (done by alaa with help of patch found on drupal.org)
    • remindme (removed)
    • navigation (deprecated)
    • members (done???)
    • article (done)
    • csvfilter (done)
    • event (done)
    • flexinode (done)
    • htmlcorrector (done)
    • image (done)
    • notify (done)
    • privatemsg (done)
    • subscription (done)
    • syndication (done)
    • taxonomy_image (done)
  3. reimplement certain website features:
    • Left iconbar menu (done by alaa)
  4. port theme (done but no new features or IE fixes)
    • maybe in the process fix IE support
    • maybe implement some of the missing features promissed
    • maybe even use a new theme, too many people hate the current one
  5. setup a test install
  6. upgrade current installation
  7. write missing modules
    • vote module
  8. test new modules and deploy ones that fit our website
  9. update the translation
    • merge current with new po files
    • finialize the translation
    • deploy the translation
  10. feedback everything to drupal community
  11. ???
  12. profit

please everybody join in and help so we can finish this quickly.

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