You could always build it out as a contrib module, though. It sounds pretty useful. ----- Cameron Eagans Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Larry Garfield <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 1:54:34 am Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Are new features still being considered for Drupal 6 core? > > > > I've coded a new "Set language" option for the bulk node update form at > > admin/content/node. I filed an issue report with a patch and screenshot, > > at http://drupal.org/node/609262 . > > > > But from my reading of other issue reports, it seems that the 6.x API is > > considered to be frozen at this point. If I understand correctly, that > > would rule out including my patch, which adds some hooks to the locale > > module. Can someone please tell me if this is true, or even better, > point > > me to a definitive statement? > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew. > > Yes this is true. Once a Drupal version is released it accepts only bug > and > security fixes while new features are added to the next major version. > Drupal > 6 is the current stable release and therefore is not taking new features. > > Drupal 7 actually just went into feature freeze this month, so is not > taking > new features either while we focus on performance optimization, bug fixes, > and > UX improvements until it is released, *probably* sometime early next year > but > that depends on how good a job of we do of tracking down and squishing > bugs. > (Help is always appreciated!) Once Drupal 7 is released, it will be the > stable version and not accept anything but bug and security fixes while > development begins on Drupal 8, which will accept all kinds of wacky new > stuff > during its development cycle until its feature freeze, and the cycle > repeats. > > -- > Larry Garfield > [email protected] >
