Or, The Project Module and the Deadly Sins of Drupal Development
Forgive me, Drupal, for I have sinned. It's been many months since my last confession.
At the Drupal Association we've set upgrading drupal.org as our top priority this year, and much of that work depends on project.*.
The Project module and kin are some of the most important pieces of drupal.org--and some of the most difficult. Six months after Drupal 6 came out, drupal.org still is still running Drupal 5, in large part because project.* is not yet upgraded.
Coming out of Drupalcon in Boston, there's a lot of buzz in the community about RDF and Drupal's future. RDF was a prominent theme in Dries' keynote address. Boris Mann and I were chatting at Drupalcon about RDF and Drupal and I thought I'd jot down these notes while they're fresh in my mind.
From the start, Drupal has focused on enabling collaboration. The quintessential Drupal website is not based on a single central authority; it's a collective enterprise.
