Drupal "on rails." One of the ways Acquia's commercial Drupal will work One of the challenges of Drupal is there is always more than module to scratch any itch, including some included modules (especially easy to reach for). And more than once I've chosen a module or approach to solve a problem, only to find out later about a superior solution I wish I would have known about earlier.

So it's a great relief to hear that Acquia will help guide us down the road of module selection by including a bunch on their to-be-released Drupal distro, code-named Carbon.

Modules currently under consideration:

(via a friend, this could be changed later, go here for freshest info (login required))

What’s Included

Carbon will include the latest release of Drupal 6 core along with a carefully selected set of modules. We are selecting modules based on their relevance to common social publishing use cases for both public-facing web sites and intranet team collaboration sites. The module set is still under review. Currently, it includes:

Page layout: Panels 2
Custom content: CCK, Date, Imagefield, File
Views: Views 2
Lightweight markup: Marksmarty
WYSIWYG: Kupu
Scheduled publishing: Workflow, Actions
Image management: As fields - Imagefield, Imagecache; As nodes - Image, Image assist
Events: Calendar
Forums: Forum
Comment spam filter: Mollom
Social bookmarks: TBD
Content rating: Voting API, Fivestar
Search: in core, Solr
Categorization: in core
RSS: in core
Content aggregation: tbd
Workflow: Workflow
Content versioning: Core, Diff
Tag clouds: Tagadelic
SEO URLs: Path Auto
Utilities: Primary Tag, Custom pager, JS Tools, Google Maps, Google Analytics, Wiki freelinks
Import / migration: tbd
Authentication: Persistent login, Securesite, LDAP, OpenID
User Groups: Organic groups
Email gateway: tbd
Email notification: Subscriptions

Labels: acquia, drupal, modules

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