CCK is no longer a part of Drupal 7 so a migration path has to include taking what was CCK and upgrading it to Fields. There’ll be a beta when we feel the upgrade path works.ĭP: Like the upgrade from CCK to the new Fields API?ĭB: The upgrade path from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.ĭP: So essentially a core 6 to core 7 upgrade?ĭB: Well, yes. If we do some analysis on the current big fix rate, looking at our history of successful bug fixing, it looks like it could be anywhere between early June (best case) and the end September (worst case).ĭP: What about a beta release? Drupal 7 is in alpha right now, will there be a certain point that you were looking to release a stable beta?ĭB: We’ve released the third alpha. It’s really up to everybody in the community to help fix it. But, I don’t really know when that number will be zero. So we’ll do a release when that number is zero. When do you think a stable beta version of Drupal 7 might land?ĭB: So, Drupal 7 has about a 100 critical bugs left as of this morning. So with that in mind, where do you see things going and how will Drupal facilitate that?ĭP: So let’s start with a very basic question. The website is no longer the focal point it’s actually the Nintendo Wii’s, the Xbox, PlayStations and mobile phones. It’s actually the fragmented way that people access content. Also, I was in the Warner Brothers Drupalcon session and they said the biggest problem they were facing is not music piracy. Drupalcon San Francisco - last week, David Peterson ( caught up with Dries Buytaert ( the creator of Drupal, to discuss where Drupal is heading, what challenges are ahead and what keeps him going.ĭries Buytaert: What do you want to talk about?ĭavid Peterson: I wanted to talk about where you see the big shifts happening - touching on Tim O’Reilly’s keynote address where he talked about the future of devices and cloud data.
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