[development] Getting both better internal and external APIs into Drupal 7

[Earl Miles]

Dmitri G wrote:
> I am proposing removing body, title, revisions, and anything like that 
> from the base object of node.  Those get added specifically to what is 
> now node.
> 
> I also agree with the fact that users can't/won't be nodes, but I think 
> profiles should.  However, that would require nodes (profiles) to be 
> bound users - this could be viewed as good or bad, depending on how you 
> look at it.

I think revisions are currently integral to nodes and must say.

Titles are currently required for administration purposes. Titles must 
stay, but there should probably be a good way to get programmatic titles.

The fact that we have at least 4 implementations of node profiles 
floating around contrib suggests that there is a lot of impetus in doing 
this.

And comments are, I think, very important. There are a few critical 
forum features that require that forum replies have all the privileges 
of nodes.