Posted by catch on September 7, 2011 at 5:21pm
There have been several discussions in the past about the difficulty of getting large patches into core. And between D8 initiatives and everyone's general plans this is going to be coming up a lot as 8.x gets moving.
http://drupal.org/node/1272266 has been opened to discuss some possible approaches to this. The goal of this issue is to create a documentation page in the handbook that outlines the process someone wanting to do major refactoring to Drupal core should go through. Let's discuss strategies and come up with a plan.