Yay! I wanted this to happen long ago, but by delaying we managed to get Views, CCK and OG to all roll release candidates on the same day!

Release announcement here: http://drupal.org/node/277856

Greg Knaddison (greggles) over at masteringdrupal.com did a screencast talking about some of the big changes in Views 2. If you haven't looked at Views 2 yet, it's worth a look to see what's changed.

I don't have a lot of time for Views 1 right now, but there are a couple of bugs in Views 1.6 that really need to be fixed. I've been hoping for a year now that someone would volunteer to write these patches, but no one has.

Ironically, both of the patches I need relate to taxonomy, and both of these problems exist because Views is trying to use Drupal's API but the API is simply not adequate to Views' needs.

So, after two years, I've finally gone and done it.

I've unchecked the box that enables people to contact me via drupal.org. It pains me to have to do this, because there are legitimate reasons to use this form to contact me.

I'm taking this weekend off from Drupal activities. Back on Tuesday. If you don't see me in the usual hangouts, now you'll know why. =)

An incredibly common complaint about Drupal is in that its terminology is often arcane and difficult to understand. And while the substance of these complaints are actually right, many people come to what I consider the wrong conclusion, and it's this wrong conclusion that is actually the root of what is currently wrong with Drupal's use of terminology.

Let's take a look at some actual problems with terminology.

Taxonomy

Ok, if the first sentence of your comment is "I'm sorry, this isn't really related to this post" I'm going to delete your comment without reading it.

If you are having a problem with a module, http://drupal.org/support -- your resources are there. My blog -- and as far as I know, pretty much all blogs -- are not a Q&A. Nor is my email box, for those of you have forgotten my rant on that topic from last year.

Forums. Issue queue. These are where support requests go. Thanks.

The release notes are way longer than I realized they'd be. Too much to do, too little time, etc.

Highlights:

Comment RSS
Enough help files to start being helpful. (Still looking for assistance!)
Lots of exposed filter goodness
Major fixes to taxonomy stuff.
Taxonomy with depth argument, using a subselect to make a query that sucks marginally less than all the other queries.
More UI tweaks
More default views
Bug fixes galore.

Release notes

While it's a bit late and almost the entire readership of my blog already knows this, last week I gave an interview to Jeff Robbins of Lullabot, for podcast #58. I hadn't been on the Lullabot podcast since the very first one, and that time it was an interview at Vancouver that wasn't quite as comfortable.

Just a quick note that Views 2 beta2 was released last night; it is primarily a bug fix release for PHP4 users. PHP4 users are encouraged to upgrade. PHP5 users can if they like, but there will be very little noticeable change.