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.