[development] CVS HEAD, code freeze, zeitgeist

[Derek Wright]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Metzler, David wrote:

> I often wonder why the project module hasn't been [moved into core].

all sorts of reasons:

1) only a tiny % of all drupal sites in the world need a full-blown  
issue tracking and release management system.  if it's in core,  
*everyone* gets all that code, even if they don't want any of it.

2) up until very recently, project was written almost entirely with  
drupal.org in mind.  since i've taken over, i've put a big emphasis  
on making it useful to other sites (since i need it for sites i'm  
building for my day job at a university computer science  
department).  however, this is definitely a work in progress --  
there's still a *lot* of work to do to make it really useful in other  
environments.

3) nothing against the workflow for how patches get into core, but  
frankly, the pace of development required to fix bugs, add new  
functionality, and make project useful for other sites is *way* too  
fast .  unless dries & co. wanted to make me a core committer (a  
responsibility i don't want), i don't see how i could do what i need  
to do to make this module better.

4) it's frankly huge, and still has a lot of crufty, dark corners  
that need lots more lovin'.  putting that steamy pile of poo into  
core would be a disservice to the rest of core (well, except maybe  
the poll.module), and an embarrassment for our otherwise beautiful  
code. ;)

reasons #5 through #10 are left as an exercise for the interested  
reader...

-derek