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Congratulations to the Node Access team
Exactly one year ago at the beloved Szeged Drupalcon, we held a terrific Birds of Feather session about node access control in Drupal. We listed all our griefs and wishes on a whiteboard. We then proceeded to make action items and assign them to developers. The minutes from the BoF are posted to the Access Control group.
This week, we finally checked off the last item. Drupal 7 contains every enhancement and fix that we envisioned. Bravo to Ken Rickard, Dave Cohen, Larry Garfield, Mike Wacker, and everyone who helped.
FWIW, this model of assigning real tasks to real people worked well for us. I hope some other groups do the same in Paris. Action items are not just for suits :)
Moshe is one of the most senior members of the Drupal community. He started committing code to Drupal in 2001. He is the 
Mike has given much to the Drupal community since first contributing in 2003. He's the wiz behind the 
Awesome on both the accomplishment and the format.
In Los Angeles user group we're in the process of creating a "drupal ninja" group with the plan to rescue contrib modules that have lost maintainers, or simply need an extra push.
I love the idea of assigning tasks. (kinda like no duh!)