Since it's turning into this discussion again, I figure I'll lay out what *I* think should be cut, and why. 1) Aggregator It's an awesome feature, but it's also far from universal. If the feed parsing API were separated from the admin ui/block generation/categories/etc, I would change my tune, though. Keep robust feed parsing, but let the front end live in contrib. 2) Archive Better modules already exist in contrib, and other solutions (like events + views) also provide a really robust replacement. 3) Blog Again, this one is really made for 'multi-blogging' and not single-user blogging. It belongs in a blogging-specific distro. 4) Blogapi As others have said, this is really cool but really belongs in contrib and the install profiles that need it. Core support for more flexible protocols like Atom (?) might be better. 5) Forum Only useful to a specific subset of Drupal sites, and needs some love and attention anyhow. 6) Page and Story These are both eclipsed by chx's 'pave the way for cck' patch. Double plus awesome on that patch. 7) Ping Does this still work? It's blog specific anyhow, and doesn't work well conceptually with non-blog sites. 9) Tracker This works, but most sites need different displays. For contrib, Views does it better. 10) Legacy This is only useful if you're upgrading from specific old versions of Drupal. It should be a convenience module that lives in contrib, not an integral part of core. 11) Book The dedicated content type is already being stripped away by chx's 'pave the way for cck' patch, which is great. The outlining tools would be really nice to include as a tool for building rigid navigation hierarchies. 12) Poll 'Nuff said. It's neat, but very limited and of use on a relatively small cross-section of sites. There are a number of good patches for it in the queue, and others have volunteered to pick it up if it moves out of core. All of these modules couldbe rolled into a 'Drupal Classic' install profile, and subsets could be rolled into 'blogging' profiles. The result would be a 'core' that's actually core. That is all. Thank you. Please return to your regularly scheduled discussion about blogapi. --Jeff