Derek Wright wrote:
i don't think the DB experts are just floating around out there, waiting for The Right CMS(tm) to show up that does everything they ever wanted with all their DB ideas so they can finally get their hands dirty doing interesting work. they're going to come to Drupal for all sorts of random reasons, and may or may not put their DB expertise to use making Drupal better...
Agreed. With my only concern being that a DB expert will first look at the state of our storage mechanisms as his primary judgment of the overall quality of the system (because it is what he knows) and might unfairly deduce that the other fields of CS arent taken seriously either. Assuming such an assumption is valid concerning DB management with regards to RI and schema abstraction, etc. This isnt something I agree with but it is just a point worth considering IMO. Demonstrating our willingness and /attempt/ to do things /right/ by them opens a lot of doors to individuals who might be wiling to improve it. To bring this back to your experience: You saw a good project trying to do things right (CVS + contribs) but needing help getting it done properly so you opted to help. Olive branches are powerful things. -- Michael Favia michael@favias.org tel. 512.585.5650 http://michael.favias.org