Steven, I appreciate your perspective on this, and I'm well aware that the final decision on this will need to be an "executive" one- that poll is just one way to gauge the community sentiment. Note that a change to "Outline" would actually make it more consistent (as some have noted) with part of the existing UI for book module. Anyhow, there are at least 4 possible courses to take: 1) leave it as "book", with the data upgraded appropriately. 2) kick "book" out to contrib and put in a new module with an upgrade path. 3) eliminate "book" and put in a new module with an upgrade path. 4) Keep a minimally updated "book" in D6 and a new module which can convert over your existing book structure. Eliminate "book" in D7. -Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Steven Peck" <speck@blkmtn.org> To: <development@drupal.org> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:23:22 -0700 Subject: Re: [development] update/replace the book module - poll, questions Oh yes, let's just rename it. After all we have no years of historical need to be consistent with our names. The rename of taxonomy to categories in the UI has worked out excellently for everyone. Especially as someone submitted a contrib. module named categories. That hasn't resulted in any support/forum or documentation issues at all.

There is no need to concern anyone with the vast number of forum and documentation posts (or the few bits of marketing material) that reference book module as a way to make a site.

Renaming it will result in years of confusion. Which has been a PAIN with taxonomy/category UI. IF it does get renamed, then we get to hunt down _anyone_ who submits or approves a contrib. module named 'book'.

It would have been better to write documentation that educated people.

-sp