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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello list,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am a doctoral student at the university of Toronto doing
research in software engineering. I am new to Drupal and started to read up on
it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am considering analyzing key design decisions of Drupal with
respect to Drupals design goals and how these decisions evolve as new design goals
are added. I am in particular interested in decisions that shape the framework
aspect of Drupal. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To get started I was wondering, does there exists a
documented software architecture of Drupal – perhaps even at module level.
Also are the design goals of Drupal, and in particular of the core somewhere
documented. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am also interested in learning if there exists some kind
of work allocation map – which documents the current design and
development responsibilities over the different parts of the Drupal architecture
– do committers know who is responsible for what – in particular within
the core or close to the core. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am hopeful that the results of my investigation would add
another interesting facet to the documentation of Drupal which would help to quickly
identify important core design decisions, and help understand why they were
made, and also how and why some key architecture decisions and goals evolved
over time. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Much appreciating your response, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Daniel<o:p></o:p></p>
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