[development] RTBC is now "reviewed & tested by the community"

Dries Buytaert dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 06:53:28 UTC 2008


> The reason is backward compatibility for the acronym, so that newcomers
> would check old issues and see "RTBC" and the new words would match it
> same with the old words.
>
> Personally, we break backward compatibility all the time in Drupal, and
> saw what the heck, it is worth it. So why not do the same with issue status
> and documentation too? Yeah, some inconvenience for sure, but better in
>  the long term.

So we're choosing sub-optimal status fields to preserve backward
compatibility?  That is very non-Drupal ...

The whole 'tested and reviewed by the community' stuff doesn't make a
whole lot of sense to me. I wouldn't mind to have us switch back to
'ready to be committed'.

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Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/


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