This is for John, mainly, but anyone else read on, if you fancy it. Expect me to follow my website motto. This post is a patchwork of thoughts coming from going through actions module, some of those can be damaging or tedious or both.
After 8 months of development we are ready to release Drupal 5.0 to the world. Today is also Drupal's 6th birthday, so the timing could not be more perfect.
Ernest has done quite a lot of experiments with his collaborative editor. Early on I've advised him early on to focus on the communication/collision detetection/... part as opposed to a new really fancy editor.