[support] Drupal 7 not ready yet

[prothero]

Thanks for the comments, folks. They verify my intuition and  
impressions. Here's hoping for a great new release for version 7.

By the way, I installed the Administer module (for Drupal 6) and it  
makes access to administration functions a lot quicker.
Regards,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthednet.org/



On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Metzler, David wrote:

> Best answered by visiting:
>
> http://drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7
>
> But compelling is a pretty subjective thing of course.
>
> IMHO:   I would generally not encourage new users to be beta users  
> of any product, so don't feel bad about adopting drupal 6 as a  
> newbie right now.
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]  
> On Behalf Of prothero
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 8:51 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Drupal 7 not ready yet
>
> I'm wondering what the compelling improvement is for Drupal 7? I see  
> feature lists, but for me, a newbie, I can't find that list of why  
> Drupal 7 is so much better.
> Bill
>
> William A. Prothero
> http://earthednet.org/
>
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Roger wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> FYI, I tried Drupal 7 (also as a new user) and found it not ready for
>> newbies to use. Many of the themes and modules have not been  
>> updated yet,
>> </snip>
>>
>> I'm saddened by this also.
>> I want to start building a Drupal 7 site but even basic well known  
>> and
>> desperately needed modules and themes have the famous "I pledge that
>> this or that will be ready when Drupal 7 is released".
>> Surely, now that the code is locked (Drupalcon June 2010) we can have
>> some of the more well known modules.
>> My basic Drupal 7 was killed by a D7 beta update last week after  
>> getting
>> views almost working, had to reinstall the pre update release.
>> I'd love to be working with D7.
>> Roger
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