On March 17th, 2008 merlinofchaos (not verified) said:
Note that the lag is actually due to Views and CCK both making the hard choice to undergo a major rewrite during the D5 -> D6 upgrade cycle.
Views' rewrite got held up by the fact that I have two major major projects, and Panels got a higher priority due to my employer, who is basically funding most of my work right now.
CCK is held up partially by Views and partially by its complexity.
Views should be out of alpha by early April, and I hope will be reasonably solid in its first beta. Because of its popularity, Views is getting quite a lot of alpha testing and that's helping a lot.
Anyway, my point is that I feel these situations are reasonably unique, but not as completely out of the blue as it sounds. ECommerce, for example, has always had a pretty big lag from Drupal version to Drupal version, because it's a big project and porting it can take time.
And no contrib modules in history have had the Importance to Drupal's adoption as Views and CCK have. Which is funny -- Drupal prior to 4.7 didn't even have Views; there was flexinode but it wasn't anywhere near as powerful as CCK. That right there is a really interesting dynamic to study, and it's important to think about.
(That said, I do wish some of the D7 development going on would take 2 weeks off and help finish the Views task list, but developers scratch their own itches).
Views + CCK lag
Note that the lag is actually due to Views and CCK both making the hard choice to undergo a major rewrite during the D5 -> D6 upgrade cycle.
Views' rewrite got held up by the fact that I have two major major projects, and Panels got a higher priority due to my employer, who is basically funding most of my work right now.
CCK is held up partially by Views and partially by its complexity.
Views should be out of alpha by early April, and I hope will be reasonably solid in its first beta. Because of its popularity, Views is getting quite a lot of alpha testing and that's helping a lot.
Anyway, my point is that I feel these situations are reasonably unique, but not as completely out of the blue as it sounds. ECommerce, for example, has always had a pretty big lag from Drupal version to Drupal version, because it's a big project and porting it can take time.
And no contrib modules in history have had the Importance to Drupal's adoption as Views and CCK have. Which is funny -- Drupal prior to 4.7 didn't even have Views; there was flexinode but it wasn't anywhere near as powerful as CCK. That right there is a really interesting dynamic to study, and it's important to think about.
(That said, I do wish some of the D7 development going on would take 2 weeks off and help finish the Views task list, but developers scratch their own itches).