Configuration Management, Automation & Features (D7)

Drupal core should include the ability to:

1. Manage/abstract configurations
2. Package them into small pieces as features
3. Automate their setup/configuration

This will allow for 1 click setup of new features on Drupal sites such as blogs, image galleries, wikis, social networks, and more!

This functionality should be integrated to work during install and on existing sites.

It should be easy to export or share features from existing sites help setup new ones.

There should be infrastructure on Drupal.org to accommodate sharing, collaborating and improving these and ideally they should be able to be downloaded directly from new, fresh Drupal installations.

The following efforts should be combined into one system for Drupal core that accomplishes this:

• Configuration Framework: http://drupal.org/project/configuration
• Exportables: http://drupal.org/project/exportables
• Features: http://drupal.org/project/features
• Package Builder: http://drupal.org/project/package_builder
• Patterns: http://drupal.org/project/patterns

TODO:

• Add list of existing issues related to this
• Define required core architecture
• Create new issues in the queue for the necessary components

More to come...