the only reasons i have any hope at all for this are: 1) dries wanted this feature in 6.7 2) on IRC about a week ago: dww: am i correct in assuming that no usability features will be added before the 4.7.0 RC? ... killes: dww: usability is always possible. i maintain this is a critical usability feature for drupal. i thoroughly understand what everyone's saying in their arguments for delay, and they're all valid points. i still believe the time lost on hardening this feature will more than be paid back in reduced support effort. given that the RC itself isn't *yet* RTBReleased (2 of the 4 remaining critical bugs are currently in "needs work", and 1 is only "active"), i think hardening/testing of this feature can happen in parallel with everything else going on to get the RC out... chris's proposal for an ultra-short 6.8.0 that basically only includes all the RTBC features that are currently on hold is a reasonable compromise, though i'm sure that'll (somewhat) upset drumm, all the CCK-in-core advocates, etc. i can see both sides of this question. e.g. i'd also like to see more CCK-goodness, i'm working on all this event-related improvement stuff (http://drupal.org/node/52884), so i wouldn't mind more time in 4.8 development to get all that done (or at least big chunks of it). but, i'd also like to see more existing functionality available in a public release, so i'd be happy either way. i think i've said all i have to usefully offer to this decision. thanks, -derek