[consulting] Staying Current

[Shai Gluskin]

I would put my money on 4/15/10 +/- 30 days for launch of D7 (and hence the
mothballing of D5). While all the work on a testing framework,  in theory,
should shorten the length of time from code freeze to launch, there are
other mitigating factors.


   - the testing framework is new
   - consensus within the community that highly influential contrib modules
   must be ready at launch of D7 or very close to it
   - lots of API changes, probably fields in core being the biggest

Is there a web site where we can put real money on such a prediction :).
Dries and webchick must be banned from the site, of course.

Shai

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jim Taylor <jim at rootyhollow.com> wrote:

>
> http://buytaert.net/drupal-7-code-freeze-september-1st
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>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Aaron Winborn <winborn at advomatic.com>wrote:
>
>>  This announcement was made by Dries at his State of Drupal address at
>> Drupalcon last week. I haven't yet seen anything official that's written,
>> but besides the Drupal front page, you can keep your eye as well at
>> http://drupal.org/planet (or http://drupal.org/planet/rss.xml for the
>> feed), or at http://buytaert.net/ (Dries' blog).
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> Roshan Shah wrote:
>>
>> Fred,
>>
>> Drupal supports current version and 1 version prior.  Since Drupal 7 has a
>> code freeze in Sept 2009, you can expect the D7 release by end of the year.
>> When D7 gets released, the community will support D7 and D6.
>>
>> D5 support will be dropped at that juncture.
>>
>> Roshan
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>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> May I ask a stupid question? How did people know that Drupal 5 will be
>>> EOL's in 9 months? I am on this list and the support list and the
>>> security list and I get the RSS feed from Drupal.org front page, but
>>> this wasn't announced any of those places (unless I really fell
>>> asleep). I just joined the development list and I'm hoping that was
>>> the list I was missing. But can anyone share what other lists or feeds
>>> you read to stay current with Drupal?
>>>
>>> A related question is what lists/feeds do you read to stay current
>>> with web development overall? I get ZDnet but it's 80% irrelevant to
>>> me, generally speaking. :)
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