Op 20 apr 2009, om 20:36 heeft Karoly Negyesi het volgende geschreven:
Plenty of other people give up (either on the individual patch or core as a whole),
Note: this is very very and a very sad important fact.
Yup, I was one of them.. I was tired of fighting my patch up the issue queue for months. Also the lack of interest of a core committer, for answering some simple questions (what is wrong with this patch? Why isn't this committed yet?) closed the door for me. Now, after 1,5 year without drupal I am trying to get up to speed again. Mainly because the file system has been improved, and because of the fact that I wan;t to participate in the image API overhaul. Seriously, almost 60-70% of the core modules, i have never used or only used to scratch my own itch. The motto "talk is silver, code is gold" has died a long time ago imo, when drupal got more commercial. Now, whenever I look at the drupal.org homepage, drupal.org is being (ab)used for asking people money for some conference, or whatever else.. Drupal isn't the drupal anymore which I *loved* so much in the past. It is grown up, and made to be a money making machine. In my opinion, that is truly a very very sad fact. (Even when it isn't a fact, it's sad people are getting the feeling that this is the case) Kind regards, Stefan