[development] Code freeze in preparation of Drupal 5.0.0

Darrel O'Pry dopry at thing.net
Fri Sep 1 16:43:43 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:33 +0200, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> Drupal 5.0.0 has been frozen.  Read the full announcement at:
> 
>    http://drupal.org/node/81861.
> 
> Developer highlight:
> 
>    "It is estimated that it will take at least two months before  
> Drupal 5.0.0 can be released. During that period, one or more release  
> candidates will be made available. Furthermore, a two month code  
> freeze should give module maintainers plenty of time to upgrade their  
> modules. People who maintain contributed modules or themes are  
> advised to start updating them to be compatible with Drupal 5.0.0."
> 
>    (Read: there will be a guaranteed time period of 2 months to  
> upgrade your modules, and possibly more.  Given that the development  
> period only took 3 months, this seemed like a fair time period for  
> *cough* responsible *cough* module maintainers.)
> 
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
> 
> 

*WOOT*



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