On Jun 26, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Larry Garfield 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. My two bits. Laura