Victor Kane wrote:
I would say that I denote a slight contradiction between some of the thorny issues being debated on this list (everything is a node vs. don't overload node hook system; developing an orthogonal API for the various API's, etc., etc., etc.,), and starting a code freeze in four months. I just don't see these being resolved in four months. Not all the theoretical debates will be resolved in 4 months. The things you just mentioned are ongoing discussions. The current changes that are happening to the menu system started off as such a debate, and got architected months ago at a conference while we were still trying to get Drupal 5 going. D6 will see its share of improvements, both on the front-end and the back-end, and it is good to have a release every year to make sure we get to a stable point (ie focus on real bug fixing). Maybe we'll get some of those issues you mentioned into D6, maybe not. Waiting too long between releases is very bad, though, because the chasm between versions becomes unmanageable.
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