Drupal 7 to be released on January 5th (with one ginormous party)
Drupal 7 has been a multi-year effort on behalf of over 1,000 contributors. Since February 2008, we've manged to make enormous improvements; it is a true metamorphosis for designers, developers, and administrators.
The last months we've seen Drupal 7 getting steadily closer to its release and critical issues dealt with one by one. Release management is not always easy, and I've always based my decisions part on data, and part on my "gut". Both are indicating that it is time to release Drupal 7. It is important to all of us in the Drupal community.
We decided that we will try to release Drupal 7.0 on January 5th, 2011 -- unless we run into outstanding critical bugs that are absolute showstoppers. All software ships with bugs, and sometimes serious ones. If there are remaining critical issues on January 5th, they will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but may be pushed out to Drupal 7.1 release and beyond. With over 28,000 automated tests and thousands of existing Drupal 7 sites "in the wild", Drupal 7 is the most tested version of Drupal in our project's history. Without doubt, Drupal 7.0 will be more stable than the initial Drupal 6.0 release.
Now that the release date is set in stone, we still have 3 weeks to make any final adjustments. The holidays are a perfect time for bug fixing. Get the entire family involved! :)
To celebrate the release of Drupal 7, the Drupal community is organizing world-wide local release parties on Friday, January 7th. If you're looking for a Drupal 7 release party to attend, check http://www.drupal7releaseparty.org or organize your own. So far, we'll have parties in more than 50 cities around the world. Let's see if we can increase that to one in every country in the world!
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That number of 1,000 contributors is especially notable when you see that WordPress had a little over 200. According to a private IRC conversation a couple of days ago with a major Joomla developer, they have about the same number for Joomla 1.6.
How was that number calculated? (Want to make sure we're comparing apples to apples....)
Congrats to all! Après le 5eme de janvier, le déluge. ;)
Congratulations on this milestone! I've been using the release candidates for a few small sites, and I must say that, from a developer's perspective, D7 is a great improvement... from an end-user's perspective (content manager, etc.), it's incredible—almost like a whole new Drupal.
It's an extra treat that the Drupal 7 'birthday' party will take place on my birthday :-)
I'm proud to be one of the contributors in the 1,000 contributor statistic—even if it's for only one patch.
"Yes we node!" "Yes we node" - Congratulations to the whole drupal community.
Awesome, I'll be there (in Seattle)!
Looking forward to get started with Drupal 7.
One step for Drupal a giant leap for mankind.
Congrats all around.
I'm happy to count myself among the 1000 contributors as well. This project is amazing!
If anyone wants to see a graph of how the critical bugs progressed over the last 9 months, check out http://drupal7releasedate.com
The graph is here: http://drupal7releasedate.com/graph.php
Awasooooooooooooome!:)
Do I count in ? I have contributed 2 or 3 patch. But I haven't a CVS account and no commit stats
I'm happy to see it moving forward
I was a bit shocked by the date because I feared I have to reorganise my release party :D
So 5th will be a great day and we will party thw whole weekend. ;)
That sounds like a very promising start of 2011! Congrats everyone!
This is great news and a great achievement for everyone within the Drupal community.
Jan. 5 sounds like a great date. I was hoping for a Christmas present, but I'll settle for Epiphany/Three Kings' Day.
Congrats to the whole Drupal community! Coming from a Joomla background I have recently been installing and testing Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7. I would have to say my vote is for Drupal 7. Thanks for 'converting' me to Drupal!
Congrats Drupal. It's the best New year and Chistmas gift for me. I am looking forward for the release.
I've been using Drupal at work for years, and this are very good news!! I'm now testing D7 RC3 locally and all that i can say i'ts... Awesome!
Thank you for this great work!
I will upgrade my blog to D7 on 7th January after 2 days it release.
And awesome Dries, you make 1000 step forward for Drupal brand.
Congrats!
I've been waiting for this new Drupal release. I'm planning to have my old static hobby chess site improve and re create. Thanks Dries for releasing Drupal 7.
My congratulations!
Preparing my server, web site and MIND to D7!
Unfortunately, the few gan of Drupal lovers are not enough to organize a d7rp in Sri Lanka...
What a nice christmasgift for everybody ... Thanks
I think this Drupal is going to be a bugfest. It's been two years to shoehorn this release to this position, double the normal time due to absurd changes...and now the major bug queue is at 192 as I write. How many of those would have been "critical" under the old system. 50? 80? 100??
I won't personally be touching D7 until at the very least 7.5 and I would recommend others take the same cautious approach.
The site of webchick madly downgrading critical issues to major in the last month was unedifying.
As a relatively new user to Drupal, who's trying to get a Drupal template out for a dozen state chapters of a national organization ASAP, I take this concern very seriously.
This is the first wind I've had of this, and hope to see a sincere discussion of the degree to which this is true (and if not, why not?).
I'm patiently waiting here to see how the Drupal community handles this sort of dissent and debate: gracefully, or with flames? Very curious to see how this plays out.
cheers,
@brian
Congrats all around. Have a nice holiday
Thanks
http://www.lithuanianjoomla.com
How exciting! I'm going to test upgrading from 6 right now.
Many many congratulations to all Drupal lovers, A perfect gift for this open source giant...
Congratulations! And thank you so much you 1,000 geniuses! I look forward to using your masterpiece for years and years.
Congratulations! Really great work you guys have done.
Postpone this 10 days! Jan 15, 2011 is Drupal's 10th birthday. (Funny coincidence: the same goes with Wikipedia.)
January 7 is an Orthodox Christmas day (in Gregorian calendar), so we'll have double reasons to party :-)
Congrats to everyone.
Please accept your beliefs are not mine, and 'I'll have double reasons to party' is a correct statement whereas 'we'll have double reasons to party' is not.
omg... 24 hour to go. can't wait... :)
Thanks so much to all people involved!
I am looking forward to use the sharp version of Drupal 7 after been testing the RCs. Thanks everyone for the great work you have done on this project. :)
omg omg omg omg
At last the day has come :D
Many many thanx to Dries and all involved people for this amazing project
I have used Drupal 7.0-RC3 in my site,
24 hour to go. i'm ready for Full Drupal 7.0
Thanks so much to all people involved!
it's 5th Jan 2011 here in Singapore,is it out yet?
hey guys where the hell is Drupal 7? Today is already jan. 5th wtf
Exciting times！
Can't you be patient? There's a thing like timezones.
Drupal 7 has been released 3 hours ago!
Con'friggin'grats! Awesome work guys (all 1000, and more)!
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