Once again, my distraction got the best of me. The Trac login was validating against the wrong MySQL table so all login attempts were denied. This has been fixed, and you can now login using your login for this site.

Email sending has also been fixed, so you will actually get them this time. However, user registration doesn't require a confirmation email. No one likes to wait for those anyway, and do they actually stop spammers?

After a few days of hard work, I've finally upgraded this site to Drupal 6. In the process, I had to give up quite a few features, but overall, I think the transition was worth it. There will be a few major changes, but only one that will concern the majority of users that visit this site.

The minor changes involve a revamped post flow. That is, no longer will there be a separate section for announcements, thoughts, articles, and tutorials. Instead everything is treated as the same content type, and taxonomy is used to distinguish them.

But the main change concerns project issue tracking. Like many others, after ages of waiting for the Project module to be ported to Drupal 6, I've given up. So in the meantime, I will setup Trac and see how it works out. It's unfortunate that it's separate from Drupal, but hopefully it's powerful features will make it worthwhile.

After months of internal development, you can finally download an official release of Gallerix v1.3, code named Santa Clara. This is the last release for the Drupal 5 branch. All subsequent releases will be for Drupal 6.

As usual, backup your database before upgrading. And remember, Gallerix v1.3 does not work with v1.2 of the Widget Engine. You will have to use v1.3 of the Widget Engine. An email will be sent to you with the download link for the Widget Engine v1.3; once it's ready of course.

I've been pushing back v1.3 for a while now, so to ease everyone, I'm setting July 17th as the hard deadline. The module is guaranteed to be out by then. As always, the widget engine might take up to a week after that to be ready.