[development] Code freeze?

[David Timothy Strauss]

This list goes to a lot of people. Please try to make your posts more substantive than "I agree!" 

----- "Caleb Gilbert" wrote: 
> Reading this thread has me very excited - what a great decision to extend the code freeze of Drupal 7 for a while! In particular, I enjoyed/share chx's comment that 'Drupal 5/6 is quite good enough to hang-a-reputation-on for some time to come'. Indeed they are. :-) 
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> - Caleb 
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> OK, we'll postpone the code freeze for now.    At this point, I won't 
> make any decisions or promises about when the code freeze will be. 
> I'l revisit this question in a couple months time. 
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> On 26 Jun 2008, at 22:02, Laura Scott wrote: 
> >> The slow uptake of D6 is due mostly to everyone and their brother 
> >> taking the opportunity to rewrite their contrib modules at the same 
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> >> time as upgrading to D6, or right before doing so.  Views, Panels, 
> >> Project*, CCK, filefield, imagefield, and a half-dozen others have 
> >> major improvements planned in contrib space that are progressing; 
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> >> they just take time.  Those, in turn, block dozens of other modules. 
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> > +1 from a community marketing perspective as well. I'm glad there's 
> > general consensus that with the tail wagging the dog, Drupal will 
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> > benefit from a slowdown so D6 can get established in the marketplace 
> > before pushing D7 out. However, I'm -1 on making this a policy 
> > towards a new 18-month release cycle. I feel rolling with the flow 
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> > makes sense. If D8 is coming along well, there will be little to 
> > gain by delaying it in the interests of a general slowdown. 
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> -- 
> Dries Buytaert  :: http://buytaert.net 
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