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By chance is there any work being done on the forum module for drupal 7? Any chance Views2 could be used as the interface for forums?
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I don't believe that the
I don't believe that the Views2 will be a part of core in D7, although I could be wrong. The main reason for my supposition is because Views uses a lot of resources, and I know that the developers want a core Drupal installation to have a smaller footprint.
Our current Requirements page lists a suggested minimum of 16BM for a stock installation. Views2 would increase that significantly, and could be a deal-breaker for shared hosting environments, which probably 90% of Drupal installations run on.
Personally, I would love for Views to be in core, and maybe someday it will be... I just don't think that it will happen in D7.
- Corey
Yes
Right now one of the most active contributors to expanding/improving the core Drupal forums is Michelle, who's created the Advanced Forum module. She's made a Release Plan regarding both Advanced Forum plans as well as where D7+ forum might be heading.
Also see:
D7 Core forum development wiki
Drupal 7 core forum module - plan of attack
I agree that the core forum is unlikely to "require" Views any time in the near future, though there could be a chance at least of the core forum and the storage of forum-related data being tweaked in the necessary ways to make it possible/optional for Views to do more with it, or optionally replace and expand on various parts of it if the site admin chooses to do so (just like Views is "capable" of taking over standard taxonomy listings). Views may eventually be in core, just like CCK is gradually making its way into core (e.g. CCK's "core" in D5, and CCK's "field" abilities in D7, etc). It will probably begin with getting a Views "core" into D7 or D8 (probably 8 I'd guess), and eventually more and more of it. Views does in a flexible and extensible way all kinds of hard coded things core does, so eventually it will be able to replace those aspects of core.
My personal biggest hope for the forum, over everything else, is performance improvements for the core forum, which has several extremely inefficient queries (see my forum module performance analysis). Speaking of which, if any developers read this - I'll donate $ as well as help raise funds to get those performance issues worked out for D7.
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