April 2010 Prediction of Drupal Release; Dries Buytaert

March 2011 graphic Drupal code size; Dries Buytaert

TBDR of core size versus release dates; Kate Lawrence

30 contributors responsible for 50% of D7 Patches; Dries Buytaert

When will Drupal 8 be released?

When will Drupal 8 be out? It's a question that's asked in many forms.

Sometimes it's phrased as: when will I have to upgrade from Drupal 6? Or, how long will Drupal 7 be supported?

Laura Scott and I were reviewing Dries Buytaert's 2010 State of Drupal and the estimates on when the new Drupal release candidate would be virtually frozen. The graph below is his summary graph of the trends in April 2010.

Fig 1 — Dries Buytaert's April 2010 Prediction of Drupal Release.

Using "projects" in Atrium, we can define iterations by close date, and assign tickets to iterations.

You can view all of the iterations planned, and see their descriptions. Each iteration is clickable for detailed viewing.

Single iterations of backlog items can be viewed as well, and this is stock functionality for Open Atrium.

On any comment update, you can change the iteration assignment of a ticket

And all changes are tracked in the comment metadata displayed right there in the thread.

Too busy doing the doing to talk about the doing?

As a strategy and design studio, we're all over communications. It's an uninterrupted conversation with our clients, hashing out ideas, working iterations of goals definition, research, wireframes, designs. But when it comes to development, when we put our heads down and get to work, it's all too easy for us in our focused implementation state to just do it and not communicate enough about what we're doing. Of course, this can be disconcerting to the client who has no idea how things are going. And that's a ripe situation for fear, uncertainty and doubt to creep into the relationship, and suddenly a successful project-in-progress can feel troubled, even if it's not.

Drupal requires some things, and likes some other things a lot. Here's how to configure the latest Ubuntu Linux to make Drupal h

We're frequently setting up servers for development, for staging, for production. I've lately preferred the Debian flavor of Linux, but up until now that had been something of a problem because Debian and Ubuntu did not include the higher-quality php5-gd library, which meant that you either had to compile your own PHP, pull from an alternative source host, or cope with substandard image resizing with limited processing features.

But now we have Ubuntu 10.4 LTS "Lucid" and life is good. Lucid comes with PHP 5.3.x and the proper GD2 library! (Cheers. Applause.)

DrupalCon Chicago session proposal voting is open. This time around we've proposed a couple of sessions. If they sound interesting to you, please vote for them! To help ensure that DrupalCon is loaded with a nice variety of high quality presentations, the organizing team's curation process for the final slate of sessions is not solely based on the voting:

Once the voting closes the track chairs will use the voting results, limits on number of sessions a speaker can speak at, feedback from previous DrupalCons, input from the team for the track, their experience and expertise in the area to fill the available spots in their track.

…but the votes certainly help!

Client-provider success factors