<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>First, remember that "core contributor" doesn't just mean "developer." You could also be a documenter, tester, debugger, or even just an idea-person. I suspect that having a proper framework in place could be beneficial to most of those roles.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Also, you said "non-core developer" - does that mean you are a contrib developer? Wouldn't the same environment be useful for the same reasons?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>There is a goal that, by 2014, one percent of Drupal.Org members be core-contributors. We'd all benefit from you thinking about becoming a 1%-er.<br></span></div><div> </div><div><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif" size="4"><i><strong>Nancy</strong></i></font></div> <div><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> DTH</font><br></div><br>I currently use Codeigniter as my PHP framework. I'm considering the<br>pros and cons of moving to a different framework. For non-core<br>developers, how much advantage is there likely to be in knowing/being<br>comfortable with Symfony2 when Drupal 8 rolls around? Or will all the<br>Symfony stuff be under the hood?<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>