In the best of circumstances, most people not committed to the cutting edge will wait at least six months post release for initial bugs to be ironed out, more obscure modules to be upgraded and tested, and to learn the ins and outs of the new development environment. So, I'd say that one should be looking at D7 for a new site today only if the site is more than a year forward (3/4 year if you feel terribly oppressed). It is going to be exciting if all goes well (and it looks like much will definitely go well, at the least), but it will also introduce lots of major paradigm changes--for the better, I think--in how Drupal works and is maintained. But that's coming. D6 is now ;-).
ari On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Keeline <james at keeline.com> wrote: > When you visit http://drupal.org/project/Modules and search individual > third-party modules that you might be using, you will see pledges by many > developers to have their module(s) ready on the day that Drupal 7 is > released. ?Smaller modules and internally-developed modules could be delayed, > of course. > > Having worked with Drupal since late 2006 (4.7), I agree that some major > version upgrades have seen a delay in the availability of key modules. > ?However, I think the Drupal folks are working to remedy this for D7. > > I think the plan is to make the release after DrupalCon in SF. > > James Keeline > San Diego, CA > > > --- On Thu, 2/25/10, Andrew Fox <afox at famsf.org> wrote: > >> Drupal 7 is in alpha right now. I think they're planning on releasing >> it some time in the second quarter of this year. Of course then you >> have to wait for all the modules to catch up, too, so my guess is >> that we're probably looking at the fall for a viable Drupal 7 >> installation. >> >> AF >> >> Andrew Fox > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
