This is an attempt to summarize some recent discussion about Drupal 8 direction and development, it is heavily biased towards my own opinions and is not intended to be either neutral or comprehensive.
This is the first of two blog posts to try to summarize recent discussions around Drupal core direction. First I want to look at some of the history leading up to the discussion and where things currently stand.
UPDATE: while preparing the stats for this blog post, I confirmed a regression in page caching that had previously been reported by Heine, there's now an issue at http://drupal.org/no