Hi everyone,
I know that this is probably a touchy subject, but I'd like to ask that anyway.
Is there a roadmap for when the release of D7 is planned?
I'm not being impatient or anything here, my reason for asking the question is this: We are about to start a major project for a client (in fact, our first real Drupal project, up to now we mainly have developed in TYPO3 ;) ). It will take us 2-3 months to build the whole site, it has to go live with the begin of July. We will have to support the site for at least 5 years.
So I am trying to decide if to go with Drupal 6, with a major upgrade just around the corner, or maybe go with D7 already, where we know that we might have a couple of issues. If the D7 release is within our development window, we would probably go with that, as we just save ourselves the work of upgrading the site afterwards.
Most of the things on the site will probably be generated by custom built modules, and we'll only need a few contributed modules here (probably for the news on the site, maybe a custom front page layout which the user can customize for himself, and maybe an image gallery, though we might implement that ourselves).
Or are there any things to be kept in consideration when coding own modules to mostly keep D7 compatibility, even when deploying the first version with D6?