Quoting Matt Farina <matt@mattfarina.com>:
Is drupal a framework or a CMS? If it's both should they be cleanly separated?
Drupal is both a framework and a CMS. The framework itself is geared toward managing dynamic content. The parts of Drupal that make it a traditional CMS must remain with the core of Drupal because that gives Drupal better definition.
How does this and should this work? Moving the CMS like features into contrib, as some have suggested, seems to be centered around this. If we have a drupal framework and a drupal cms do we have maintainers for each piece? How does this interaction work?
Since the framework is geared toward a CMS how can we separate all of those pieces. There may be some modules dwelling in core that may be moved but certainly not those that pertain to a minimal CMS. -- Earnie -- http://r-feed.com/ -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://www.4offer.biz/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/