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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">I sent this earlier, but it didn't see to go through -- I apologize if some of you are seeing this twice.
Hello, all,
Yeah, I was having some trouble seeing that page too -- thanks for
pulling it back into the realm of the visible.
I like the way it reads except for one thing: "Drupal can define
customers as contributors who pay with their time, and clients that
sponsor development."
As I see it, Drupal doesn't have customers -- at least not in the sense
of commercial software products. I would recommend changing the line I
quoted above to: "As an open source project, Drupal has community
members. These members contribute according to their skills, their time,
and their inclination. Drupal does not have a customer base, it has a
user base. As the project grows (as the functionality changes, as the
documentation evolves, and as more people use the software varying
ways), we look to expand the number of users who contribute to the project."
Also (and I'm sorry if this already exists) it might be good to have a
handbook page outlining how non-coders can contribute to Drupal -- the
Hitchikers' page could link to this, as well as to the README first page
and the "How to enact change" page (which rocks, btw <span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :) </span></span>.
My .02
Cheers,
Bill
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Larry Garfield wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Were you asking for feedback on that page? Because I keep getting an access
denied message, although I am logged in. Kinda hard to review it that
way. :-)
On Monday 02 January 2006 05:01 am, Robert Castelo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Happy New Year,
in response to a few hissy fits from users over the last few months,
I've posted a page to the handbook explaining to users
(non-contributors) that they are not the centre of most developer's
universe....
Hitchhikers guide to Drupal
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org/node/42941">http://drupal.org/node/42941</a>
Not sure how much the rest of the community agrees with the ideas
expressed, but I've noticed some developers getting really hacked off
with the attitude of certain users, and thought it might be useful to
have a page to refer these users to instead of having long pointless
threads each time one of them posts something like this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org/node/41966#comment-79224">http://drupal.org/node/41966#comment-79224</a>
A down side to the user base growing so quickly is that we'll no doubt
be seeing a lot more like this in future.
A handbook page like this needs to be very carefully worded so as not
to alienate users, if there's interest in the ideas it can be rewritten
to be more diplomatic before we publish it.
Best regards,
Robert
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