專業顧問的Drupal：客戶常見的需求綜覽

當要指定專案的需求時，大多數客戶都會詢問許多同樣的問題，不論該專案是一個電子商務網站或是一個社交網路。以下所列出的是大多數專案所關心的項目，以及本手冊裡其他部份所提供的相關資訊。

注意：本文所列出的是主題，而非該項主題的教學指引。例如，「延展性：案例研究」而非「延展性：如何調校伺服性」。有些教學連結暫時還存在，但以後會移除。

Platform Support

• System requirements

Scalability

• Tuning your server for optimal Drupal performance
• Congestion control: tuning the auto-throttle
• Performance Case Studies
• Any figures available?
• Any good case studies or examples?

Security & Access Control

• Security
• Security announcements
• Configure user registration
• Watchdog: monitor your site
• Any info on history of vulnerabilties and how quickly they where patched?

Administration Overhead
Auditing

• Watchdog: monitor your site

Disaster Recovery

• Backups
• DataBase Administrator

Maintenance

• Upgrade tutorial
• Do we have any info on dates of previous releases? It would be good to be able to give clients a very rough idea of Drupal maintenance cycles

Documentation

• Drupal Handbooks
• Would be better for client if a "Using Drupal" handbook was available, none of the handbooks suits an organisation where a consultant takes care of all technical tasks.

Accessibility Legal Compliance

• Accessibility

Professional support

• Drupal services
• People that provide Drupal services
• Consultants mailing list

Interoperability

• NTLM authentication
• LDAP integration
• Pubcookie
• BlogApi
• WebDAV
• Web standards?
• Desktop aplications?
• Microsoft Exchange Server?