When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen.  You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud.  That can't be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7.  My thoughts after the quote.

If you're involved in designing, developing, supporting, working with, changing, upgrading, or selecting some sort of content management system, you owe it to yourself to read this article and heed its advice.  A good content model is important to make a system useful to the intended users.  A good content model also has to be flexible and extensible, especially as you iterate and improve it.  A good content management system has to be pliable to meet your content model, instead of imposing its own one-size-fits-all model on you.

Jamesr on Column Two sets the bar pretty high when he observes that it costs $5 million to write a CMS.

The Australian eGovernment Resouce Center has posted Whole of Victorian Government Web Content Lifecycle and Content Management Roles." While its not a huge document, it does a good job of mapping the management process and hitting on the important roles within it.

Jon Udell's slides of his OSCOM keynote are available. Lots of insight for people building their own CMSs.