Q:

Is CiviEngage a core part of CiviCRM now?

I'm a new Civi user with the intent of using CiviCRM for political campaigns. I keep coming across dated articles talking about CiviCampaign and how it's functionality is extended by CiviEngage, which is only available on Drupal. However, I did not find CiviEngage in the available public modules list. 
I am testing CiviCRM on both WordPress and Drupal, and I noticed that Drupal lists CiviEngage as an activated module by default, however I find no equivalent in WordPress. Is the functionality provided in CiviEngage now a core part of CiviCRM on all available platforms, or is this still specific to CiviCRM on Drupal? 

A:

CiviEngage, at the moment, is a Drupal module that currently ships with the official CiviCRM Drupal release (see https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-drupal/tree/7.x-master/modules/civicrm_engage, which ends up installed in sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/modules/civicrm_engage). That means you won't find it on drupal.org or any other drupal module site and you will only see it in your CiviCRM installation as an available module if you are running CiviCRM on Drupal.
Having said that... plans are underway to first split the module out of CiviCRM and onto drupal.org so it can be downloaded and installed like any other third party drupal module and eventually be converted into an extensions so it can be used by anyone.
More information is available in this issue:
https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-16671

