How will Acquia keep up with the rapid evolution of Drupal core and modules?
It’s simply our job to do it, and we’ll make it work. That said, there are practical things that will help assure we can keep up. For example, testing. During the Drupal 7 development period Acquia will be actively participating in Dries’ vision to develop a strong testing foundation for Drupal. For us, this means contributing as many core tests as we can. As the strong testing framework matures, our efficiency in examining (and testing) new patches / modules will increase many-fold, which will go along way towards this goal. We’ll also think carefully about what new modules we add to our distribution, examining data such as module popularity, module code quality, the depth of relationship we can form with a module maintainer, etc. All of these can help us focus our efforts where we, the maintainer, and our customer all win.
