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I've had a pair busy weeks doing development and maintenance for contributed modules: Internationalization, Messaging, Notifications. All of them have got some new features and are on track for stable releases soon.

However, one of the the things I've realized (again) is that I've ended up maintaining way too many huge modules and maybe one of the ways to keep them moving faster is to break them down when it makes sense, and also to hand over maintenance to some more people. Now we have Mail2web (Ian Ward is the new maintainer) and Language Icons (Freso is helping with that one), more may be coming in the next future....

The other thing I've realized is that it is exhausting maintaining both 5.x and 6.x versions of a module. That means developing and testing everything twice with slight changes which is actually harder than working on two different projects. The thing is that Drupal 6 seems to be taking some time to become the main development version for new sites and more work is done with Drupal 5 yet.

I'm leaving on Sunday, so these days I've been quite busy preparing everything for the Boston Drupalcon 2008.

To the question "Will Drupal 6 be multilingual?", I just can say that it will be "more multilingual than Drupal 5", but really cannot give a straight "Yes" answer as it is not really fully multilingual because there are a big number of parts that cannot yet be localized or translated.
This is the latest try and our last chance for Drupal 6. There's a very minimum set of patches to at least allow contributed modules to hook into the right places of Drupal core and have a fully multilingual Drupal 6 without using dirty hacks or core patches in contributed modules.

• http://drupal.org/node/155047, Object translation. Wrapper function for contrib modules
• http://drupal.org/node/155381, Minimum support for multilingual variables
• http://drupal.org/node/155282, Add db rewriting to blocks query

From this month I will be working part time for Development Seed which is quite an exciting prospect for me because of both, the nature of their projects

Finally, back to work after attending the Drupal Conference in Brussels and a few more days travelling around Europe.

Post to drupal.org forum

Update: Preparing a DEP draft for implementation in Drupal 4.8

Today I got back to Drupal development after a few days just to find, to my astonishment, that things are still changing and instead of bugfixing we are still implementing new features.

First posted to drupal.org

I've recently run into some discussion about some functionality and some options for site administrators related with a patch I've post to Drupal core...

We are in the proccess of adding full multi language support to Drupal.

Update: see Multilanguage in Drupal:i18n