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