First Release of Drupal Carbon Upcoming
Acquia, a start-up headed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is scheduled to release the first commercially supported version of Drupal, code named “Carbon” within a couple of months. The release is generating a lot of buzz in the development community, and many people are wondering what effect it will have on this popular Open Source Content Management System. According to Dries, there is no need to worry – Carbon will be released to the public under the same GPL license as Drupal and be freely available for everyone to use. Acquia will be providing paid technical support and development consultation to corporations who contract their services. They will also empower other design and development firms to do this by offering Acquia certification in Carbon / Drupal development. This will be similar to a Brainbench certification, and should become popular with those working professionally with Drupal.
While not all the details are known about Carbon, the release is essentially an “installation profile” that combines the core Drupal code base with a set of popular and reliable contributed modules. Views 2, CCK, a WYSISYG editor named Kupu, Voting API & Fivestar, Tagadelic, PathAuto, and Organic Groups are just some of the popular modules that will be included in the release package. Other new features will include Mollom, an anti-spam module developed by Acquia, and Spokes, an auto-update module. There is also a “to be determined” social bookmarking integration slated. Carbon is sure to breathe a new inspiration into the Drupal development and design community. Some worry that it could threaten its Open Source development model, but that has been actively dismissed by Dries himself. Following this example, other design firms may move to build and release installation profiles with paid support that combine upon the core Drupal system and contributed modules with new themes and customizations.
A good discussion on this issue is found on webdevnews.net, and there are also some interesting posts on the Drupal site, such as:
More information on the release of Carbon can be found on the Acquia website.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Looks very nice yaar..
February 27th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I love drupal..