- Various small improvements: no bug fixes though but I moved a few things
  around.

  headline code is still in place 'till the new code has proven
  to be stable. See "syndication.module" for the new code.

  Changes:

   + Improved the parser and tested it against RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91,
     RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0, RDF and XML feeds.

   + Improved the administration interface.  It might be a bit fuzzy
     at first.  Maybe some native English like Julian, Michael (or any
     one else with knowledge in the field) can help out by suggesting
     better naming, terminology or descriptions - as well as by
     writing the help section for this module?  I'd have no idea how
     much this would be appreciated.

   + We can *easily* recognize new tags or extensions: we parse out
     "link", "title", "description" and "author" right now, but we
     will have to revise which tags to support and which not.  New
     tags can be added in less than 10 minutes (if you are familiar
     with the code).  Read: we have something we can build on.

   + Within each item, tags can now appear is random order which is
     or was not the case with the old headline code where we expect
     <link>s prior to <description>s for example.

   + Feed updates only (ie. always) happen through cron.  Neither do
     we use one global cron for updating all feeds; instead, every
     feed can specify his own update-interval.

   + Newly fetched headlines are "appended" to the pool of existing
     headlines (read: we don't replace the whole feed), and headlines
     automatically "expire" after x days or hours.  (Every headline
     has a timestamp.)

   + Got rid of backend.class; it is integrated in the module.

   + Switched to more generic names: "headline" became "item" and
     "backend" became "feed".  This should ease future non-headline
     oriented syndication.

   + You can associate attributes or keyword lists with every feed.
     At the moment new items will automatically inherit their feeds
     attributes but in future we can use heuristics to make these
     attributes "mutate" when and where we see fit.  The attributes
     can be maintained by hand as well.

   + We don't export any blocks yet; we will soon do as soon this
     new code has been tested for a bit more.  We will only export
     bundles though so if you want to export by feed/source, you
     will have to make a source-specific bundle.

- Polished a bit on a few other modules: nothing major.

- Wrapped the test URLs in urlencode()

- Added a experimental index.module to try out some of the discussed
  techniques.  It does not work yet, nor is it integrated with the
  rest of the code.

- Improved the rating module: made it possible to define "weights"
  for the different content types.  These weights are used when
  calculating each user's gravity.  This is a required step before
  we can even think of "nodifying" the diary or headline module.

- Polished a bit more on the other modules' crons.

- Fixed a small glitch in the moderation queue.

- Improved the crons and cron settings a bit.

- Added a cron to queue.module to automatically discard or dump nodes
  older than x days.

Hmmm for some reason the \r\n's in the poll output where being changed into <br>'s... is that because of the check_output() legacy functions inside the themes? In anycase, I removed em.

- Replaced $theme->story() by a more generic $theme->node().  All themes
  required an update (and so will your custom themes).

- Fixed small glitch in check_preview().

- Updated CHANGELOG.

  When $field was 0 it would return true, causing SQL errors. Seems to
  convert the string its being matched with to a numeric, normally 0. Forced
  $field to be treated as a string by enclosing it in quotes.

  Apache, but seems that the latest versions are not as forgiving.

Please update drop.org as soon as possible, coz my crappy poll.mod is making drupal look bad :(

This baby is fixed.

(Hopefully) a fix for the "n.active" watchdog error... forgot that node_get_XXXX() only queries node properties.

- Removed includes/timer.inc: it has been integrated in common.inc.

- Fixed a bug in node.php: UnConeD forgot to update 1 node_get_object().

- I changed the look of theme_morelink() a bit: it might not look better,
  but at least the output is "correct".

- Various small improvements.

- Improved node_get() so that it will try to skip one additional query
  if possible (ie. to reduce the number of queries).

- Automatically removed tabs and trailing spaces from the poll.module.

- Fixed small glitch in locale.module.

- Added the "delete" hook for node-modules. When called, a module should do additional clean-up if necessary.

- Updated all node-modules

- Improved node_preview().  Fixes a problem with poll.module.

- Redid settings.module and even renamed it to conf.module.
    * Settings are now grouped in basic categories like "system
      settings", "module settings" and "filters".
  * Added new settings to make Drupal easier to configure and
  to make some aspects like the watchdog scale better.

- Renamed includes/settings.php to includes/conf.php.

- Added filter support to conf.module and introduced filter hooks so
  modules can implement and export new filters.  Example filters are
  an HTML filter (implemented), a profanity filter, an url converter,
  ASCII smileys to images filter and so on ...

- Reworked the check_* functions: user contributed content/input is
  only verified and filtered once in its lifespan.

NOTES

- Altough this is a large commit, no database changes are required.

- Cleaned up the coding style

It's mainly intended as a sideblock-element as there's no real use in having them show up on the mainpage. There's no real poll-browsing system for now either.

I still need to write documentation, and I'm not yet satisfied with the node-output (non-sideblock). I should be able to improve it once the $theme->nodebox ideas get finalized.

CHANGES:

- Rewrote the cron system.  Removed cron.module and moved all cron
  related options to settings.module.  Cron was a confusing thing:
  it has been made simpler both in terms of code and configuration.

   + You had to rehash your modules to make the cron show up in
     the list.  This is no longer required.

   + You couldn't tell what cron "watchdog" or cron "story" were
     up to.  Instead, we now display a clear description message
     for every cron involved.

   + The user interface of setting.module - and the admin section
     in general, looks a bit ackward but I couldn't care less and
     don't want to see this improve at the time being.

- Improved setting.module:
   + Now uses variable_set().
   + Added some help and documentaition on how to setup cron.

- Improved ./export.

- Updated CHANGELOG.


TODO:

- I'm now going to look into UnConeD's question with regard to
  check_output() and $theme->node(), as well as the filter and
  macro stuff.  I'll probably be fine-tuning setting.module a
  bit more on my way.

There was an "echo $story->cid;" after the date in $theme->story, which caused date/times for stories to appear like:
on Tuesday, 05/15/2001 - 18:393
on Friday, 05/11/2001 - 07:033
...

On Windows machines (not sure about *nix boxes) it's not always pre-sorted by the filesystem. It has no effect code-wise, but it will cause all module-lists in Drupal to be sorted alphabetically (e.g. the links in admin.php).

- Fixed bug in book.module: parent-field was not saved.
  (reported by Remco)

  This change extends the functionality and makes it conform more with the
  other form_* functions.

- Tidied up the field_get() API and improved the implementation of
  both field_set() and field_get().

- Removed debug output.

- Fixed bug in account.module.

- Simplified field_set() API.

- Made UnConeD's cool common timestamp format conform with the
  general coding style.  Sorry to be so picky about this but I
  really can't help it. ;)