I read an article by Dries on Planet Drupal discussing this.   Sounds like it some issues got delayed by following the policy of making sure they were fixed in D8 as well.  Dries has recognized the issue, and has made some adjustments (in commiting responsibilities) to solve the problem. D7 is on a fairly regular release track now.

 

Dave

 

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil Coghlan
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:00 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Get thee to Drupal 7

 

One thing I never understood. 7.0 was left loveless and abandoned (while the bugs piled up) for three and a half months. The first bugfix for 6 took three weeks. It was only two weeks with D5.

What was the thinking behind that?

On 27/05/2011 21:31, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:

7.2 was released last Wednesday and will be the most current.

 

"Good to go" is a relative matter. It may be for you, but it is not for me. And then there are the contribs...

 

Nancy

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

 

From: Roger <arelem@bigpond.com>
To: support@drupal.org
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 9:54 AM
Subject: [support] Get thee to Drupal 7

While discussing a rebuild of a fairly simple CMS site yesterday I was
asked questions about moving to Drupal7.

--- There are many alpha and beta versions, Drupal7 beta 3 and alpha 8
so which is the most bug free latest version to install?
-- Does Drupal 7, the recommended download have all the bug fixes of the
alpha and beta versions?
-- There seem to be no new releases or bug fixes over the past months,
does this mean drupal 7 is good to go in production.

Can someone please advise me on this.
Thanks in advance
Roger

PS. I have both Drupal 7 stable and Drupal 7 beta 3 on my home pc, both
seem to work well but I could not answer those questions.
Thanks
R

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