On 02.Jun.2006, at 11:09, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
also the fact that any serious developer should be using cvs to access it.
Adrian, This comment of yours is a good example of what I mean when I say that developers in Drupal have to move away from the limelight. Drupal may have started as a project for "serious developers" only but at this point, with the explosion of the blogosphere, the project cannot really afford to be only for "serious developers". So in thinking how to track actual use of the software and its patch implementation, you need to get down several notches from where you are and make your demographics not the serious developer y'all covet to come in droves but the non-serious type who want a good product that is easy to use for community building. As I have told many a software / net artist : If a child cannot use the artwork consider the UI a failure. In the case of Drupal, you dont have to make it easy for a 6 year old to install and maintain, but you may want to think more along the lines of ... and yeah, I can be sexist about this ... cheerleaders in tight abercrombie and fitch wet tshirts wanting to make their own "suicide girls" site. This, I insist, is the trend that's going to explode in the next 18 months. If you can make it easy for that crowd to MySpace themselves, then honey, you can make anything with code. BTW, anybody in the marketing group here? Cheers, Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com TEL - 646.552.7365 AIM - cultkitdiva SKYPE - lizasabater NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Richard Cheney, for high crimes and misdemeanors.