The feature freeze deadline for Drupal 8 is approaching, so it's highly important for the community to clarify goals, ensure focus, priorities, and channel contributions.

We want Drupal 8 to make a big difference and be a leading web platform. But in all seriousness, we didn't make much progress yet. More than 60% of all changes were actually bug fixes for Drupal 7. 41 weeks are remaining. In merely two weeks from now, we're down to 39.

Some core initiatives made some good pragmatic progress, but there are almost no major architectural changes yet. A few initiatives are completely stuck, due to a lack of understanding, communication, and scope resolution, and lastly, due to not being able to get everyone on the same page. We want to achieve some serious progress over the next 9 months, so we need to get our act together.

Last weekend, 14 core contributors met in Boston in order to resolve the conflicts and unblock the initiatives. This post attempts to explain

1. some background on the particular problem child, the WSCCI initiative
2. what happened at the sprint
3. how Drupal 8's overall architecture will look like
4. why we want to change Drupal's architecture

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