Announcing Drupal7ReleaseDate.com

Posted by auzigog on Jun 1, 2010 in Drupal7ReleaseDate.com | 4 comments

To all newcomers, welcome to Activism Labs. Learn more about the project management tools that will be created here this summer.

Today, I’m launching Drupal 7 Release Date and @drupal7release to help the community forecast the potential release date for Drupal 7 based on the number of critical bugs remaining in the queue.  The idea came from a countdown discussion on Drupal.org.

After realizing that “drupal 7 release date” is the first search that Google will suggest to you when you begin typing “drupal 7,” I thought it might be good to provide a resource for Drupalers who are excited about Drupal 7, but don’t yet know that they can help it be released sooner.  So I created the entire site assuming that the majority of the users will be site builders who are eager to use Drupal 7, but have never contributed code to core or tested patches before. I provide some short, but sweet set of steps for reviewing patches on Drupal 7 to help squash bugs. (I’d love some feedback on ways to improve the set of steps to be more noob-friendly).

Here’s the front page with the projected date and many calls to action to help out on the bug queue.

There’s also an interactive graph of the velocity of critical bug fixes since march.

You can also follow the updates on Twitter by following @drupal7release.

While none of this is particularly related to the tools being created here at Activism Labs, I did feel like making this site would help the community by directing those eager for the next release in the right direction. Hopefully this makes up for the fact that I won’t be able to develop my modules in D7 this summer.

Know of a way to get more people working on the critical issues queue? Have advice for the site? Share your thoughts in the comments.