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----- "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.  :-)
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OK, we'll postpone the code freeze for now.    At this point, I won't  
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> I'l revisit this question in a couple months time.
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> On 26 Jun 2008, at 22:02, Laura Scott wrote:
> >> The slow uptake of D6 is due mostly to everyone and their brother
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>> taking the opportunity to rewrite their contrib modules at the same
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>> time as upgrading to D6, or right before doing so. Views, Panels,
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>> Project*, CCK, filefield, imagefield, and a half-dozen others have
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>> major improvements planned in contrib space that are progressing;
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>> they just take time. Those, in turn, block dozens of other modules.
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> +1 from a community marketing perspective as well. I'm glad there's
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> general consensus that with the tail wagging the dog, Drupal will
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> benefit from a slowdown so D6 can get established in the marketplace
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> before pushing D7 out. However, I'm -1 on making this a policy
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> towards a new 18-month release cycle. I feel rolling with the flow
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> makes sense. If D8 is coming along well, there will be little to
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> gain by delaying it in the interests of a general slowdown.
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> Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net
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