Originally Posted by
Brendan Farr-Gaynor
Hi Eugen,
I was worried about this too. The thinking here is that while Drupal is technically the best choice, from a usability perspective Drupal 5/6 are pretty rough for content administrators and are plagued with security issues. Fixing these issues was a big focus for 7.
That said, your concerns are definitely on-par with some of the internal discussion we had so we are still not 100% stuck on 7. (We have a bit of time to play with it before major roll-outs on this project.) Our experience in OSS (Linux, JS Libs, PHP Frameworks) is that things move incredibly fast, so you'll see a lot of module developers abandon support for previous versions rather quickly. The result is that it's generally not a great move sticking around unless you have to.
The team is on the consensus that we're going to *aim* for 7, but will roll back to a previous build if the requirements for a critical module demand it. We're all professional PHP developers with years of experience writing ground-up enterprise CMS frameworks, so it's likely we'll just make manual corrections where possible.