Design work on fields in core and more

Six Drupal developers met for three days in Feburary 2008 to
work on 
and re-design Drupal's core data architecture. We began with
an 
overly broad list of topics and goals and spoke in very
general terms 
about "Drupal's overall mission" and similarly
vague concepts. By the 
end of the design sprint, we devised a tangible vision for
Drupal's 
future and an understandable method for getting there.

In more concrete terms, we talked about moving CCK fields in
core and 
how local data fields (e.g. votes, comments, whatever) can
be 
attached to remote data objects.

Our notes and discussions are available at 
http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprin
t.  Please 
read at least everything starting from our Day 1 notes
before telling 
us how stupid we are.  

Thanks,

Barry

Is there a tidy executive summary of what was discussed
anywhere? It's a
lot to read and piece together without a good overview... 


On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:49 -0500, Barry Jaspan wrote:
> Six Drupal developers met for three days in Feburary
2008 to work on 
> and re-design Drupal's core data architecture. We began
with an 
> overly broad list of topics and goals and spoke in very
general terms 
> about "Drupal's overall mission" and
similarly vague concepts. By the 
> end of the design sprint, we devised a tangible vision
for Drupal's 
> future and an understandable method for getting there.
> 
> In more concrete terms, we talked about moving CCK
fields in core and 
> how local data fields (e.g. votes, comments, whatever)
can be 
> attached to remote data objects.
> 
> Our notes and discussions are available at 
> http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprin
t.  Please 
> read at least everything starting from our Day 1 notes
before telling 
> us how stupid we are.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry
> 

> Is there a tidy executive summary of what was discussed
anywhere?

There is a summary here: http://groups.dru
pal.org/node/8786. Larry Garfield 
is pulling together a fuller report for posting at 
http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprin
t.