To my knowledge, every module removed from Drupal core has died. I use several of the modules on Roberts list (blog, aggregator, blogapi) and if they were removed, then I would be out of luck as one of the few remaining 'hobbyist' users. And Stefan, I too miss the old front page where it wasn't all site implementations and Drupalcons but things people found interesting, but that's just what happened. -sepeck On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso@gmx.at> wrote:
On Monday 20 April 2009, Marijn Kruisselbrink wrote:
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:19:03 Dries Buytaert wrote:
In fact, a lot of big projects, like the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, Fedora and Wordpress all switched to 6 month release cycles. Mark Shuttleworth posted some good insights about that in a recent blog post: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288. I'm not suggesting that we should switch to 6 month release cycles, I'm merely bringing it up to get feedback on the idea.
I don't think any of those projects have 6 month release cycles that break backwards compatibility, which I think major drupal releases do...
I think that's just another argument in favor of Robert's suggested move of core modules to contrib. The Form/Fields/File/whatever APIs deserve longer release cycles so that contrib has at least some chance to stick with feature work for a single core version only.
However, for the modules built on top of the APIs (Forum, Aggregator, etc.) nobody really cares about API compatibility, those are the ones that would actually benefit from significantly shorter release cycles.
While I'm not yet convinced that stripping down Drupal to a bare framework is the right approach, I do think that the two aspects of core should get different treatment.
-- Jakob