This group focuses on creating an object model to manage relationships between Drupal entities and to traverse and manipulate those entities in ways similar to the DOM. A system like this can be used to replace Taxonomy's and Comment's own systems for storing hierarchical relationships, but also a lot of entity reference contributed modules. The challenges are to make it both flexibel and performant. We refer to this project as DROM.
Drupal core compatibility
With Drupal 6 being widely used and Drupal 7 on the way I believe we need to discuss what core version DROM should be compatible with. There are certain things that should be taken into account before jumping to conclusions:
- This is a rather large project. Perhaps not because it requires enormous amounts of coding, but at least because of its complexity. If it takes us long to finalise it, will Drupal 6 still be used for new projects at the time of DROM's release?
