[development] Drupal 5 incremental release?

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Sat Jul 21 10:43:52 UTC 2007


Caleb Gilbert wrote:
>     Please file detailed and specific bugs against 5.x if any APIs have
>     changed which break contributed modules. This should not happen.
> 
> That's fine, but wouldn't it be more expedient to open the scrutiny of 
> the api's to the entire Drupal community? Any one individual (or even a 
> handful of individuals) is going to have a more limited amount of time 
> to research, document, and fix the existing issues with Drupal 5.x-dev 
> than if the entire Drupal 5 user base is looking at things.

Well, Drumm asked you to do just this. Submitting an issue is a 
completely open process.

> I guess I don't understand the reasons for not releasing something at 
> this point.

Well, you provided the reason yourself, so honestly I don't understand 
this sentence. You said the current 5.x-dev breaks with contributed 
modules. But you don't see a reason not to release it?!

Gabor


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