I've been using Vertical Tabs for quite some time (and it is a great module), but I'm a bit lost following the beta6 release... not sure that the significant change in usability has been 'sold' or explained very well.

Is the Form Controller module the only way now to configure VT - as the Vertical Tabs configuration has vanished ('deprecated' - sic) in the Content Type definition during the upgrade from beta5 to beta6? It's not clear to me whether Form Controller is effectively [but not in the strictest Drupal modules sense] a dependency to configure VT? I've not looked at the Form Controller module in any detail, but I'm uneasy with being coerced to utilize a supporting DEV module for something that was a pretty stable beta release. 'Just Needs a Maintainer' #644790-3: Simplify the module and integrate with form_controller to allow customizations is a bit of a flaky reason to justify use of a DEV module: DEV means unsupported.

Also, was there a compelling reason for the change in usability? Didn't seem to be a huge pile of issues that this change has addressed.

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1. No it's not the only way. As I stated very clearly in the issue you linked to I show how you can use the $conf array in your site's settings.php to configure how to control forms and tabs. Look down just a little bit to #644790-7: Simplify the module and integrate with form_controller to allow customizations.
2. Using form_controller is completely optional. You are never coerced into anything so stop making stuff up.
3. This was the best way to make this flexible for any form on your site because the special-casing for the node form configuration was just not a very reliable and good way to do it. It also never worked properly and we don't do anything like it in Drupal 7, which this module is essentially a backport of.
4. This got the approval from the original maintainer, dmitrig01.
5. Dev does not always mean unsupported. There's nothing that says that explicitly across all projects. That's just how project.module displays releases on drupal.org. It's true that form_controller is still experimental. That said, there are some issues with form_controller currently that all have patches, but the maintainer has been slow to respond. I'm trying to lobby for commit access to get them fixed as well.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.