This list goes to a lot of people. Please try to make your posts more substantive than "I agree!" ----- "Caleb Gilbert" wrote:
Reading this thread has me very excited - what a great decision to extend the code freeze of Drupal 7 for a while! In particular, I enjoyed/share chx's comment that 'Drupal 5/6 is quite good enough to hang-a-reputation-on for some time to come'. Indeed they are. :-)
- Caleb
OK, we'll postpone the code freeze for now. At this point, I won't make any decisions or promises about when the code freeze will be. I'l revisit this question in a couple months time.
On 26 Jun 2008, at 22:02, Laura Scott wrote:
The slow uptake of D6 is due mostly to everyone and their brother taking the opportunity to rewrite their contrib modules at the same
time as upgrading to D6, or right before doing so. Views, Panels, Project*, CCK, filefield, imagefield, and a half-dozen others have major improvements planned in contrib space that are progressing;
they just take time. Those, in turn, block dozens of other modules.
+1 from a community marketing perspective as well. I'm glad there's general consensus that with the tail wagging the dog, Drupal will
benefit from a slowdown so D6 can get established in the marketplace before pushing D7 out. However, I'm -1 on making this a policy towards a new 18-month release cycle. I feel rolling with the flow
makes sense. If D8 is coming along well, there will be little to gain by delaying it in the interests of a general slowdown.
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net