Feature
Oh wait, no, you aren't that lucky. Now the real fun begins for Drupal (news, site) developers. Five weeks of Slush -- code slush that is.
Code Slush
So what happens during code slush time? Well you can still submit patches, for the most part. If your patch includes new functionality or features, you may be out of luck.
There are, however, ten exception categories to this "no new features and functionality" rule:
- Image Field
- Translatable fields
- Convert Profile module to Field API
- Convert Taxonomy module to Field API
- Admin overlays
- Edit anywhere
- Customizable shortcut bar
- Administrative dashboard
- Plugin Manager (automated module updates)
- RDF/RDFa
In addition to these, other exceptions to the code freeze include patches for:
- API changes to existing functionality that are "important and necessary"
- Improvements to usability and accessibility
- Improvements to Performance
- Improvements to Documentation
You are still looking at an October 15th deadline, so if you haven't started upgrading and testing, what are you waiting for?
The #D7CX Movement
We told you this wasn't the time to sit back and relax. With such anticipation of Drupal 7, you don't want to see down faces when people upgrade only to find out that their favorite modules aren't compatible.
Learning Opportunities
Webinar
Jun
1
How organizations can design, build and run Generative AI into the Customer Experience
Discover how to drive enhanced CX through Generative AI
Webinar
Jun
6
The Future of Social Media: Emerging Trends and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
The impact of emerging technologies like AI on social media
Webinar
Jun
7
The Building Blocks of Personalization
This webinar will explore how personalization can create powerful ecommerce shopping experience.
Webinar
Jun
13
The Future of Contact Centers with AI at the Helm
Learn how to balance human intuition and interaction with the potential uses of AI to create delightful and lasting CX
Webinar
Jun
20
3 Steps to Unlock Your Customer Data and Drive Revenue
Discover how Twilio Segment’s #1 Customer Data Platform helps implement data-driven strategies.
Webinar
On demand
AI for Marketers: Optimize Personalization Across the Funnel
Understand the benefits of utilizing AI across your entire marketing stack
Webinar
Jun
1
How organizations can design, build and run Generative AI into the Customer Experience
Discover how to drive enhanced CX through Generative AI
Webinar
Jun
6
The Future of Social Media: Emerging Trends and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
The impact of emerging technologies like AI on social media
That's what the D7CX Movement is about. D7CX, Drupal 7 Contributed Modules, is an initiative to have at a minimum the top 40 contributed Drupal modules be Drupal 7 ready by the time it's released. Apparently this did not happen for Drupal 6 and things didn't go so well.
So, if you have a top 40 module or not, pledge your effort to Drupal 7 and start working. Here's the current list of D7CX Modules and D7CX Themes.
Other Ways to Help Out
If you aren't working on a Drupal 7 version of your module, there are lots of other ways to help out including usability, accessibility, API clean-ups, testing framework improvements and more.
Get all the details you need on the Drupal Code Slush here.
