[support] Which one is preferable - Drupal 6 OR Drupal 7

[Larry Garfield]

Drupal 7's "maturity period" will be far shorter than it was for D6.  Drupal 6 
had a very long lag time while contrib caught up.  For Drupal 7, we have 
Fields in core, tons of additional functionality in core, VIews is already 
usable on D7, there's hundreds of modules with stable or beta versions for 
D7...

My company (Palantir.net) has been building Drupal 7 sites for over six months 
now.  If you know what you're doing, it's ready *today*.  There are some 
significant contribs that arent ready, but that's a great opportunity for you 
to jump in and help get them ready.  And the knowledge you gain in so doing is 
worth gold to clients looking for someone who can show they really know their 
Drupal.

Unless you need a specific module that's not already ready, and you have a 
tight deadline, Drupal 7 is already mature enough, I'd argue.  Drupal 6 was an 
anomaly in that regard.

--Larry Garfield

On Monday, February 21, 2011 12:20:22 am Mutuku Ndeti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using d6 for now until d7 is "mature" enough. This would be about
> 6 months to one year after launch.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> On 2/21/11, Warren Vail <warren at vailtech.net> wrote:
> > I host better than a dozen Drupal sites, and while I am planning to
> > switch my dev site to D7 in about 6 mos, if that goes well, I'll begin
> > to move my client sites when I discover the support for D7 (newer and
> > better modules) is better than D6.  I don't want to expose my clients to
> > "The Bleeding Edge".
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Warren Vail