Op zaterdag 19 november 2005 09:04, schreef Dries Buytaert:
(It is also why I fundamentally disagree with the stuff Ber wrote about making a choice and giving up one aspect.)
I think we don't disagree. A diverse community is very good. But IMHO that communtiy does not have to livz all on one place. Linux's distro system works great: you have a huge and diverse community. When I got kernelfreezeson my new/odd AMD, I reported that to mandrake, they told me it went all the way up to the kernel guys (woo). So, while I have to only talk to folks trained for helpdesks (mandrake payed helpdesk), I am still part of the community. I strongly beleive in Drupal itself as a 'nothing in particular' (not as much as RoR, but maybe in the direction of typo3-but-then-easy). Around that, a flock of distro's that are very particular can be maintained. Too often do I hear the comlpain that 'Movable Type is much better then Drupal'. This is simply untrue. Not because MT is better/worse, but because Drupal cannot be compared to a focused CMS. Now, if we would have Dan Developer maintaining a (maintained) drupalBLOG solely for blogging, al these endless discussions about taxonomy/themes/options/usability being too hard to grok would stop. But also DrupalBLOG could be compared to MT, and would do very, very well. ATM the model is Joe User <-> Drupal While, the model could be: Joe User <-> Dan Developer <-> Drupal. We don't loose feedback. Instead: we then know that when Dan Developer speaks, or comes with a patch, he does so for hundreds (of thousands) of users. While in our current situation, there is a lot of buzz. And Joe Users voice (or issue or patch) is lost in that noise. I for one, know, that when Boris/James/Adrian/Roland say that we really need [tm] clean URLS in core, that that weights far more, then when I say "i want theme_foo to get more info". It is because Bright talks to real users on a daily base. And not only to these few users that manage to fight themselves into the forums. How many of you do not think 'RTFM' when someone asks "how do I delete a user". That Question itself indeed is a RTFM Q. But it is also valuable, because if fiften people a week answer that, we have found another usaility bug. Bèr -- | Bèr Kessels | webschuur.com | website development | | Jabber & Google Talk: ber@jabber.webschuur.com | http://bler.webschuur.com | http://www.webschuur.com |