At Drupalcon Denver, I approached Dries with the idea of putting Views into Drupal core for the Drupal 8 release. The idea was met very positively, and I've begun the work of putting together a team and resources and the things required to do this. Obviously, it's a big job, on the scale of initiatives like Mobile, CMI, WSCCI, etc.

This initiative will be called VDC, or Views in Drupal Core. The goal of this initiative is to put Views as we know it into Drupal core and properly integrate it so that everything is seamless. The fantastic UX work that Acquia funded last year already works very well with the core style, and we can continue to build on that to make it simply part of the Drupal experience.

For many years, large portions of the community have asked repeatedly why Views isn’t in core. Many of those answers are fading: Core’s processes are now capable of handling large projects. Views’ development needs have slowed as it has matured and gotten more feature-filled. It’s well known that Views and CCK, together, catapulted Drupal from having tens of thousands of installed sites to hundreds of thousands of installed sites by significantly reducing the amount of work needed to build complex functionality. CCK is in core now, but Views is not.

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