On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Nathaniel Catchpole <catch56@googlemail.com> wrote:
Looks like we could try to do this without changing HEAD development at all - if Alex starts with OpenID and Aggregator 2.x branches in contrib, then anyone who wants to could do the same for the other optional core modules. Then if it works we could look at better infrastructure around it.
This is not so simple. The gain for Alex would be that he can work on DRUPAL-7--1 while core is open with much more freedom. here, let me state this: would the quality of the code of aggregator be less high than the core standards? maybe. but, it already is way below. These only-by-history core module are already not core quality so let them develop more freely. We are looking for responsible maintainers so I am sure they wont degrade into a stinking pile of debris.