On Saturday 10 November 2007, Dries Buytaert wrote:
This review is quite complete, but it's a 'blogger' review, not a cms.. all the comments are "blog" oriented, and in somehow.. i's far
Thanks for saying that. It is exactly how I felt about it, too.
- A lot of people come to Drupal from a blogging background.
- A lot of what Chris said is valid for non-blogging contexts.
Drupal 6 is what will be used in 2008 and possibly part of 2009. A *lot* of people will bump in exactly the issues that Chris highlighted. Let's not classify this feedback as irrelevant -- it's some of the most valuable usability feedback we've had in months.
If people with a different background provide us feedback, we should also take that into account.
I'd say about a quarter of what he lists is fairly simple usability tweaks that should be easy to do. (String changes, reorder fields, etc.) Unless we're at string freeze, I don't see why we can't do those. Some comments are only useful in the context of being a WordPress clone (eg, enable blogapi and throttle by default); those, honestly, core should ignore and leave to a blogging profile. Some are already in progress. (Any of the drag-and-drop ordering stuff.) Some might be worth considering in 7, but it's too late in D6 for it (in-core calendar picker). Some have a very good reason for being what they are, but honestly the reason is too technical to explain in the UI. (e.g., hyphens aren't allowed in internal names because internal names become function names in the code, and hyphens can't be function names.) Overall I think between a third and a half of his comments can and should be addressed in D6, if we can focus on them. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson