Release date for 6.x

Whether the present version/status is stable (and usefull) enough for use in your production site will probably depend on the characteristics of your site.
In any case: it seems rather stable at present (in my case, it seems not to crash itself or to negatively influence other modules/parts of Drupal).

I'm actually using it in production myself, since all I have is a production site. I have a relatively small, new site with approx. 100 nodes.

The problems I experience are that some bug(s) cause many nodes/menus not to appear (yet) in the sitemap (see http://drupal.org/node/379854), and that the status of multilingual support is pretty unclear. Which in my case is a serious issue since my site is completely multilingual.

My solution to all of this (at present): I generated an additionl sitemap manually via www.xml-sitemaps.com , loaded it onto the site, and registered that with Google Webmaster tools next to the one that this drupal-module (somewhere in the future) hopefully is going to provide dynamically.

For my small, and rather static site, this works.

I have not found any versions of the 6.x-1.x version of the xmlsitemap module to be stable at all; updates that fail, functions that don't exist, etc. It would be really nice to know if there is a target date for some kind of stable 6.x release. I've started to work on an 'xml sitemap lite' that's a complete rewrite (including simpletests) that I'm going to use on my own sites at this point unless anything gets any better.

I know Kiam has been putting in hard work on the module (major props to Kiam!), but it's a little disappointing that I haven't been able to trust this module yet on any production sites. :/

What I did was find one version that is stable to run, I've found that to be the Feb 19 release. It works fairly well, nothing blowing up and it seems the bot's are happy with it. I'll stick with it till the Beta comes out, so the word is "caution".

I cannot give a date for the official release of XML Sitemap for the fact the modules code act a little strangely on some installations. It seems that in some cases the problem is caused by drupal which keeps to use the old path associated to a module when the module has been moved to a different directory (that is the real problem with the functions that Drupal is not able to find).

Kiam,

That was a big move on your behalf.

No one knows everything, getting stuck is part of the journey :-)

There is a lot of talent here.

Perhaps Dave & Guru, can assist you - instead of creating a fork.

best of luck

+1
completely agree with guru. Typical 80/20 dilemma ...

J.

I am setting this report like duplicate of #359104: XML sitemap 6.x-1.x-dev progress.