Warn newbies about our transition period
joachim - February 27, 2008 - 15:47
I think we ought to mention somewhere in all the material on D6 that it's going to be a while before contrib modules catch up. Otherwise, a lot of new users are going to be making forum posts about why the modules they need aren't out for 6 yet -- assuming they don't just drop Drupal and move on to another CMS.
I don't see any mention of this on http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0
Forum posts like this:
Forum posts like this: http://drupal.org/node/227992
perhaps in documentation
Getting Started >> Before you start >> Version numbers, policies and which version you should use
That said, it's really hard to write to a specific audience in an announcement. We have a diverse community from the complete neophyte to the long term contributor. Writing an announcement for a specific audience is hard, so we try and target the middle.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
quick take and opinion on this...
sepeck - great link and text BUT honestly, how many new drupal users are going to drill that far into the site before just downloading 6.1 and discovering that views, cck, organic groups and tons of other things aren't ready yet? my guess is 99 percent or more...
i agree that the 'warning' should appear right on the home page - for at least a few months - right up there in the 'drupal 6' and 6.1 announcements - something like:
as of today, almost every single module i've checked out has a 6.0 type of question - and i know one dude was tracking it all, but that's fallen behind too...or worse still, people are posting 6.0 modules but not updating their module description pages (unless you click 'view all releases') so it shows up in modules by version but not when browsing modules by 'all' and then clicking through..
Is there a way...
...to get notification that specific modules have been ported to 6? Or do I just have to bookmark all those pages and visit them all every other day?