Forum post: Drupal 7 news
Pool is built on an open source software framework called Drupal. The current public beta version of Pool is using Drupal 5. This was the best version a few years ago when Pool started but since then the Drupal community has been hard at work improving their code base. The latest stable release is 6.14.
When we first started planning Pool V2.0 we were anticipating using Drupal 6. One good thing about our slow process of redesign :~) is that D 7 is now getting close to release and we may actually be able to jump straight in to it! This will bring lots of enhancements and enable us to deliver an even better open media platform to the Pool community.
If you're interested to find out what the future holds for Drupal and enjoy listening to friendly open source nerds chatting, dip into this podcast http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-79-drupal-7
It's great to hear Angie Byron A.K.A. webchick, one of the D7 lead developers talking about her work on the project and some of the features to look forward to.
Some of my favourites are
- Streamlined uploads
- Meta taxonomies
- Better geotagging capability
- Reduced reliance on theming for functionality
- Automated testing framework
- Admin dashboard
- Elimination of user vs. node tensions
If you've read this far then you might also be interested in the User Experience project that has made a significant contribution to the D7 release. http://www.d7ux.org/
I was playing with Drupal 7
Mon, 02/11/2009 - 15:37 [sime]
I was playing with Drupal 7 the other day. It's very good. If you have lots of logged in traffic you'll need to do some performance testing before jumping in too soon. The longer you can delay upgrading, the less kinks you'll have to deal with.
The project lead, Dries Buytaert has a good update, and some useful links for Drupal developers who want to get involved on his blog.