The built-in Ping module bundled with Drupal is not as good as I expect to have on my site because it only notifies Ping-o-Matic. I just want to ping to custom list of pinging services. I have also found multiping which was initially referred in a thread. Actually, I patched the built-in Ping module to support custom Ping services, both ping and extendedPing. Anyway, it is not as good as multiping provide to me. Unfortunately, multiping has not been ported to Drupal 5 yet. That's why I have to do it today.

One thing I would like to track in my sites is how many query got 404 or 403 error. Sometimes, 404 means something wrong by me. Anyway, I have my hero, customerror module.

Another useful module for all content-based sites is gsitemap which interacts with efficiently. This module already has its branch for Drupal 5. However, it doesn't work properly on Drupal 5 yet.

This is a long journey for me. The second critical module in this site is interwiki. I often used this useful module to refer to something mostly Technorati. This module is a filter so it is possible to use with other filter including wiki or markdown.

Eventually, I continue my tasks as a module maintainer to port my modules, ip2cc and search_keywords to Drupal 5. I would like to announce that these modules are ported to Drupal 5. If you have time, please give it a try to upgrade.

I have not worked with packaging Python module for so long. It seems distutils was deprecated since Python 2.4. The recommendation is to use setuptools instead. It offers lots of useful functionalities, e.g., easy install with automatic dependencies resolver.

To create a package with setuptools, the package should have