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For those of you not subscribed to the development mail list and are curious, (why are you not subscribed if you are interested?) the conditions for Dries rolling a release candidate are now announced below.

The short answer is, it depends on how many bug fixes are submitted and how many people help review them. Possibly as early as next week if the level of critical bugs continues to go down as they are fixed and a base level of stability is met.

Following Drupal's involvement in the Google Summer of Code program, Robert Douglass was interviewed by Liz Gannes of Red Herring magazine. The issue has just hit the news stands, and the article, "Google U", is a full page from the 48 page publication. In the section Winning Hearts, where Google's motivation for spending $2 million on open source is pondered, Drupal get's it's shining moment:

And that kind of money is a significant infusion for open source. It means an emerging project like Drupal, a content management platform run by Belgian students that mentored 10(sic) Summer of Code participants, can get the equivalent of “hiring a highly qualified developer for an entire year to work for us,” says Robert Douglass, an American developer in Germany who spearheaded Drupal’s involvement. “Fifty-thousand dollars earmarked for Drupal development—that’s really astounding.”

You can read the full article at RedHerring.com.

Thanks again to Robert (see his post) and the whole team of mentors (and students!) that were involved with th