Caleb Gilbert schrieb:
Also, I never mentioned a 'gold' repository. My original intention was simply to sign on too the idea that catch suggested which I understood it was - 'why release a Drupal version that no one is going to use for any large/critical sites for six months (or possibly ever)'.
In addition to myself, I know at least one other (large) shop that has more or less committed to skip Drupal 6. This is what's happening and no one wants to deal with it and just poo-poos such talk as being irrelevant. But it is happening, and it's up to everyone to form their own opinion of any relevancy. (personally I'm fine with the idea that some releases end up this way IF was more publicly acknowledge instead of hushed up, which is what I feel like is happening now to some extent)
Now you know another Drupal shop.
The real point of all this, which makes this discussion not just a pedantic exercise, is that I truly feel sorry for anyone starting up a big project right now who is just getting into Drupal and trying to make sense of what version to use. I've seen people giving others what I consider to be very bad advice and representing a state of stability/readiness for Drupal 6 which, in my considered *opinion*, is just not there.
I totally agree with you. D6 is a great release, but given these facts, we might consider to release Drupal core not by date, but when important modules in contrib are ready. I.e. what buys me a modular system, if there are only a few modules available? Thank you for this write-up; I couldn't have expressed it better, Daniel