Starting to work on Drupal 7
Drupal 6 has been in a code freeze for more than 6 months and is almost ready to be released now. We're only a few bug fixes away from the Drupal 6.0 release. Therefore, I just created the DRUPAL-6 CVS branch for Drupal core. This means that while Drupal 6 is being finalized and we prepare for the Drupal 6.0 release, we'll also start accepting new features and improvements for Drupal 7, the next major version of Drupal.
In my State of Drupal presentation in Barcelona I hinted about what would be the killer Drupal 7 release according to a survey I conducted. While that list is not exclusive and nothing but a wishlist (not a deliverable), it might be worth a look if you want to help shape the future of Drupal.
If you don't want to watch the entire video, here is the executive summary:
- Better media handling
- Custom content types in core
- WYSIWYG editor
- Better performance
- Better tools to structure/organize content
- Basic Views like module
- Automatic upgrade functionality
- Improved node access system
- Better internal APIs
- Better external APIs (import/export, web services)
- Usability
Expect me to blog more about these in the next couple of months.
— Dries Buytaert
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