InfoWorld: What do some of the modules do?īuytaert: One of the most popular contributed modules is called CCK. We hired some of the best usability people in the world - Mark Boulton, he did the BBC website. It was our key focus, is to make Drupal easier to use for end users. We've made really significant improvements to Drupal usability. One side effect is that it becomes a little bit slower because there's extra features and functionality. So Drupal core got bigger, it has more features. We actually moved 70 contributed modules into Drupal core. You have Drupal core, which is the base platform, and then we have contributed modules, which are being developed by other members in the community. How much slower, and what's the reasoning behind that?īuytaert: We added a lot of features. InfoWorld: At the DrupalCon conference in April, you said Drupal 7 was going to be slower than Drupal 6. InfoWorld: When would the general release happen?īuytaert: I think it's going to happen somewhere in September, October timeframe. My hope is that we'll have a beta release of Drupal 7 around the beginning of August. InfoWorld: When will Drupal 7 be released?īuytaert: We still don't know, but we're down to 44 critical bugs. Now CTO of Acquia, Buytaert began working on Drupal around 10 years ago and released it as an open source technology in 2001. He also offered perspectives on open source and the upcoming cloud version of Drupal, called Drupal Gardens. In an interview with InfoWorld at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON 2010) conference in Portland last week, Buytaert also reiterated that version 7 would be slower than version 6 but still superior. The Drupal 7 open source content management system is expected to reach a beta release stage next month, with the general release due to follow several weeks later, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert said.
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