[development] Have you ever laughed fate in the face?

[Earl Miles]

Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
> We already generally need a "where status = " on most queries so this
> is just one more where clause.  I'm sure people protested about the
> "status =" when it was introduced, but it makes sense in the long run.
> This is similar - we will grumble while we transition and love it in
> the long run.
> 
> Maybe I'm just being overly tolerant, maybe this is the straw that
> breaks the camel's back, but I don't think this is _that_much_ more
> painful than the current query system that it necessitates a whole new
> object API to replace SQL access.

I suspect a fair number of queries in contrib don't contain the where 
status = 1 already. Adding another just compounds that.