The Drupal project is proud to announce a new service for our users here at Drupal.org — Planet Drupal. In addition, Drupal talk is back from the dead now. Planet Drupal is a place where the Drupal-related blog posts of many Drupal developers, users and supporters are aggregated. Drupal talk is similar in nature to Planet Drupal, but aggregates a lot more Drupal-related content, including usenet posts, forum posts, mailinglists and lots more. Click "read more" for more information.

Planet Drupal

Planet Drupal is a place where the Drupal-related blog posts of many Drupal developers, users and supporters are aggregated. This allows you to easily track what is going on in the blogging Drupal community. Planet Drupal also provides an RSS feed, so that you can browse the Planet in your favorite RSS aggregator.

Currently we aggregate ca. 20 blogs, more will be added later. If you want your own blog added or you know someone who you'd like to see added, please post here or contact Uwe Hermann.

There are currently two guidelines which your blog should meet if you want to have it added:

• The blog must be written in English. Drupal is quite an international project and English is the only language that probably everybody around the world will understand.
• We currently only aggregate Drupal-related content. So in order to be added, either your whole blog should be Drupal-related, or you should provide us with a feed which only contains your Drupal-related posts. This is quite easy to achieve with Drupal itself, simply create a category "Drupal" and file all your Drupal-related posts in there.

Drupal talk

Drupal talk is similar in nature to Planet Drupal, but aggregates a lot more Drupal-related content, including usenet posts, forum posts, mailinglists and lots more. In addition, Drupal talk aggregates (unlike Planet Drupal) contents in any language, not just English. Of course, Drupal talk provides an RSS feed, too.

Implementation

Both, Planet Drupal and Drupal talk, use the improved builtin aggregator module from Drupal HEAD (the upcoming Drupal 4.7), which allows us to aggregate RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.x, RSS 2.0, and Atom feeds. Unlike many other planets, we don't use the popular PlanetPlanet software, but rather Drupal itself in order to "eat our own dogfood".

We're looking forward to your comments and suggestions.