Random info without solid tags is very difficult to deal with. Bugs come and go and carefully phrasing a query is hard. I can't count the number of time I have issued a search on Drupal looking for a solution to something I think is a bug. What turns up is frequently a bug in a current release and what appears to be the very same bug in a very old release like 4.7. Far too many of the search results have no info about to which release they apply. In a similar vein, looking at an issue queue for a particular module I find what appears to be a solution for my bug and it even notes that it has been committed, but not to what release it was committed, usually to some -dev release but it is not obvious when one of the many -dev gets into a real point release. I strongly prefer dealing with only point releases for production sites. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Chris Johnson <cxjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
I hate to say this, since it is our own dog food, but it's incredibly hard to find useful, timely information in both the forums and the groups. If I cannot find my answer in the structured documents (which are for the most part great), or in the code myself, I try Google against the whole web next.
If that doesn't work, I head to IRC.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:57 PM, As If Productions < everyone@asifproductions.com> wrote:
Whether they are "intended" to work this way or not, the Forums (and to a lesser degree, the Groups) actually serve this kind of purpose very well. The Forums are always my first stop, and often my last. If I had a major say in any restructuring of the Drupal cosmos, I would try to centralize the Forums and Groups in peoples' minds, and make much better use of taxonomy on d.o.