Project D

On Saturday, April 17th, the weekend before DrupalCon San Francisco, I’m helping to organize the very first Drupal core developer summit. The goal of the Drupal core developer summit is to talk about ways we can improve Drupal core, and the core development processes, all while having a good t.... #read more#

Drupal 7 is moving along nicely, and is becoming increasingly stable. We just released a second alpha release, fixing a number of critical bugs, following our initial alpha release in January. Alpha releases are to give Drupalistas something to download and test, so they can report and help fix bug.... #read more#

It was a close race to the finish — or rather the beginning — of the Drupal 7 code freeze process a couple of weeks ago. Now that we’re in the middle of the code freeze, I wanted to update everyone on the current status of the freeze, and provide some guidance about where we go fro.... #read more#

After some 82 weeks of development beginning in February 2008, no one should be caught by surprise that we are in a code freeze for a release of Drupal 7, the next and best release of Drupal yet. However, as we all know, some of the best patches always happen at the last minute, and there are alway.... #read more#

Improving the usability of Drupal is very important. Yesterday, I wrote about the progress that was made on Drupal 7 usability — the community has made a ton of incremental improvements, while Mark and Leisa have been preparing mockups and wireframes that provide significant over-arching impr.... #read more#