[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Dries - Beyond Drupal 4.7

Roland Tanglao
2005
18
10
created on Tue, 2005-10-18 02:57
  • Thank-you to team
  • Free tagging
  • PHP Template added to core
  • Sprinkled with Ajax
  • Contact Form - don't need to use fedback
  • Node submission page (easier to integrate menu management)
  • Node Revisions
  • multiple block regions
  • form api (trememdous effort including documentation and developers)
  • Drupal 4.7 will rock, so let's get it out
  • Proposed Schedule
  • DrupalCon is one week
  • go home is final patches for 1 more week
  • code freeze after 2 weeks
  • 4 weeks today Release Candidate 1
  • n weeks for Release candidates
  • need to update contrib modules during n weeks
  • Boris: don't have a list of core contrib modules
  • also documentation improvements and small usability during n weeks
  • open up head
  • discuss schedule this week
  • rob douglass: maybe make freeze RC to make people aware, but is that really a RC?
  • Dries - maybe move it RC 1 a week
  • 4.7 = de facto release for 6-8 months, so have to make sure it is stable
  • compare performance to ensure it's attractive to big site
  • Drupal community growing exponentially
  • with every release - community doubles
  • make sure it's rock stable and secure for new and existing users now and in the future

After 4.7

  • talk about this week
  • Dries would like to do less i.e. conferences
  • Dries would like to do less support and infrastructure work
  • Dries will delegate and compare teams
  • Dries would like to work on core and drupal.org, herd the community and foundation
  • prepare for tsunami of users
  • big news for Dries's personal site :-) !
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