<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Henri Poole</b> <<a href="mailto:poole@civicactions.com">poole@civicactions.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><div> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I'm not sure I think it is a bad idea, but I think that an official<br>> guild (for lack of a better term) with formal dispute resolution<br>> procedures would be necessary as a part of this. I'm not sure any of
<br>> us have the time to do this right.<br><br>I could spare some time each week for such a guild. Although I think<br>dispute resolution is probably a small part of what should be done. At<br>vivid, we had a quality assurance manager that told me that I should fix
<br>the faucet before mopping up the floor more often.<br><br>The guild could certainly help with that and the trusted relationships<br>that would come out of it would enable private conversations of a<br>sensitive nature (like this one) to happen with more ease.
<br></blockquote></div><br>I'm not against anyone taking the initiative and setting up a "guild" (is that what the Marketplace on <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/marketplace">groups.drupal.org/marketplace</a> is becoming? I don't know...) but it makes me VERY uneasy.
<br><br>Drupal itself already has the reputation of being very insular in nature. I would like to continue to work to grow the ecosystem of developers that "know" Drupal...everything from best practices around the API to the "best practices" of community involvement. I suspect a guild-like structure will prove even more of a turn off / barrier to additional developers entering the community.
<br><br>I don't know that we want to have to carry the burden of business best practices as well....software development is a very wide space, and development of Drupal is no different than any other technology choices.<br clear="all">
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