The Making of Drupal 7: historical overview

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on June 27, 2010 - 7:39am

2008 February 4 - Dries creates Drupal 6 branch in repository, posts wishlist, opens up D7 development - http://drupal.org/node/217702

2008 February 12 - first patches? for Drupal 7 specifically, by catch and webchick, committed by dries

2008 February 13 - Drupal 6's official release

2008 August 27 - Dries Buytaert announces Angela "webchick" Byron as Drupal 7 co-maintainer. http://buytaert.net/angela-webchick-byron

2009 July 1 - Moshe Weitzman launches the #D7CX movement. http://cyrve.com/d7cx Many key module developers take the pledge - and take steps - to have their modules up to date and issue a full release on the day Drupal 7 is released. http://drupal.org/project/modules?solrsort=sort_title%20asc&text=d7cx&display=table

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key moments in Drupal 7 history

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