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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. :-) >
> - 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 >
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