From chx's blog:

Alas, this post is not about announcing such an awesomeness. But i would like to draw attention to the new, open-to-other-modules subscriptions 5.x-2.x branch and what a fantastic piece would be a small module that ties views and subscriptions together. According to Earl Miles, the creator of views:

you could grab the view, add a nid filter to the view (or argument), run the view and get the result. If there's a match, it's in the view.

If you are up to code this module, contact me and I will help with the subscriptions parts, the API is not yet documented because it's a bit in a flux.

Somebody give 'im a hand, eh? =)

In this issue in the Views' issue queue:

How can I fail to understand you haven't even bothered to give a good
reason against? Duh. Oh and this isn't /your/ issue queue; you don't
/own/ Views (and this issue isn't even assigned to anyone anyway).

(Yes, that's to me).

I already told the guy I wasn't responding to him anymore.

If so see this: http://drupal.org/node/104848

While I'm on the topic, these are the remaining TODO items before I am ready to call Panels 2 beta:

1. Pluggable context. This means letting the panels page have a context selector (think: argument in Views) that can validate the argument and load the context. I want to supply user, node, vocabulary and taxonomy term contexts, and it needs to be able to identify basic Views arguments to correlate how a View can automatically be promoted to function with this context.
   

These are my high level design goals for Views 2.

Views 2 will be the Drupal 6 port. Views 1 will not be ported to Drupal 6; this is so we can make wholesale changes to the API at the same time there are other changes, reducing the number of complex upgrades required.

At long last, I have decided to end Views 1.6 beta status. I've fixed the bugs I considered critical. (Not that there aren't still bugs; some annoying and hard to fix, some edge cases, some I just don't understand). But the last one that was really giving me fits is fixed.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE back up your databases before upgrading!!!!!!!

Views 5.x-1.6
Views 4.7.x-1.6

HarryB over at OpenSourceCommunity.org recently wrote a nice article about his experiences with Drupal as a newbie. He's got a great deal of experience with both Wordpress and Joomla, and ut surprised me when I heard they'd picked Drupal for their task. In general I've found that Drupal and Joomla are generally both flexible enough for most tasks, and familiarity is often a key factor in making the decision.

I've released Panels 2 Alpha 6. (download)

This one includes the much talked about Panels Node module -- now panels can be a node! This module came out at only 275 lines, displaying the power of the panels API I built. Of course, panel nodes are simpler than panel pages, and have fewer options; but then again, you also have all the power of a node with them.