By Brazen on

If I have suggestions or ideas that I want to suggest to developers of Drupal 7 where would I go to do this?
Is there like a contact form or forum...

I have suggestions for CCK fields.

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removemeplease’s picture

removemeplease commented

You would go to your time machine and set it to last year before the code freeze.

qler’s picture

qler commented

Even if the code froze, you can still make suggestions at the CCK issue queue. Here's the form: http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/cck

Each project (module) has its own issue queue. You get to it from the project page http://drupal.org/project/cck and click issues on the left and create a new issue. Whether they take it into consideration or not is another story. As mj said there's a code freeze, but your suggestions may find their way into the contrib code.

LaurentAjdnik’s picture

LaurentAjdnik commented

Hi,

you entry point is the Issue Queue (simple) or its Advanced Search version.

First of all, search through it to see whether your idea has already been suggested.

If not, submit a New Issue, select the appropriate Project (CCK, for instance, is split into many sub-projects), and then set Category to "Feature request".

Note: "CCK" does not really exist any longer in Drupal 7, since it mostly became part of the Core.

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One thing to keep in mind is that suggestions rarely go anywhere. Coming up with an idea is easy. Writing the code to make it happen is the hard part. I know a lot of people get upset when you respond "patches welcome" but the fact is that most developers have a full plate and aren't likely to spend a lot of time coding things they don't need. Doesn't hurt to try and there is a "feature request" option in the issue queues but don't get your hopes up. And that goes even more so for core. The odds of a suggestion getting into core without code attached is pretty slim.

Michelle

qler’s picture

qler commented

@Brazen, Depending how much you can code yourself, your best bet may be to describe your feature in the module development forum http://drupal.org/node/add/forum/4 and get people interested in helping you code it into a patch. That's what I would do if I cared enough.

Someone above said that the CCK module is now part of Drupal core. True, but I believe the CCK maintainers said their plan is to keep CCK as a wrapper around the functionality that didn't go to core and for backport compatibility.

LaurentAjdnik’s picture

LaurentAjdnik commented

Indeed, some features will still be handled by a separate CCK module. More details in the "Drupal 7 and Fiels in Core" section of http://drupal.org/project/cck.

But, as for everything else in Drupal, there will be no real "backport compatibility".

As Dries said:

So it was decided that we can break people's code, but not people's data.

(see http://drupal.org/node/65922 and http://buytaert.net/backward-compatibility)