As of today, requests for support via email (i.e, my contact form either here or on drupal.org) will be denied.

I’ve received four of them today, and I’m appalled. Normally I do what I can to help people who email me, but this is starting to snowball out of control. I’m not your technical support. There are channels for that. There’s the drupal.org support forums. There’s #drupal-support. If there are bugs or you think there are bugs, there’s the issues queue. But emailing me directly is rather rude. I’m sorry that my software is confusing, I really am. But honestly, would you rather I stop working on it entirely because I’ve run out of resources for it? And yea, usually if I’m in the IRC and you ask me there (publically) I’ll help you out.

A quick review of both the #drupal IRC channel and the activity on the dev list is that, despite everything, Drupal’s new release system is a little confusing. And, truth to be told, it is a little confusing. In my [not so] humble opinion, this is not the fault of the implementation or the design of the system, but more the fault that Drupal users and developers have gotten accustomed to a system that sort of worked, but left a lot to be desired.

To start with, the original system worked well for Drupal core itself. This meant that a fair number of people, who primarily deal with core, never really got to get face to face with the problems that manifested on the contrib repository. But that’s a relatively small group of people, and all of them are very smart people. While it took some good arguing, the bulk of them were convinced that the new way is a better way, and thus the improvements actually came to pass.

Thanks to KarenS, who has become a very prolific Views’ contributor, we finally have the calendar app I’ve been wanting. It integrates with Views beautifully, and it finishes the demolition of the archive.module that I so desperately wanted to be rid of. It is the last piece, and now Views + Calendar can do everything archive.module did — and so much more.

Click here for a demo of the project.

I’m noticing more and more modules using Views, and there’s a class of modules springing up that specifically expand Views, which is awesome, because that’s exactly the kind of thing I’d hoped would happen with this module.

In particular, there’s some AJAXY stuff springing up — and I noticed a few days ago that a module to do node editing using Views as a framework has been checked in. It’s called Edit View — people interested in this should check it out.