Guild (was Re: [consulting] Proper Collections Procedure)

[Boris Mann]

On 8/19/06, Henri Poole <poole at civicactions.com> wrote:


> I'm not sure I think it is a bad idea, but I think that an official
> > guild (for lack of a better term) with formal dispute resolution
> > procedures would be necessary as a part of this. I'm not sure any of
> > us have the time to do this right.
>
> I could spare some time each week for such a guild. Although I think
> dispute resolution is probably a small part of what should be done. At
> vivid, we had a quality assurance manager that told me that I should fix
> the faucet before mopping up the floor more often.
>
> The guild could certainly help with that and the trusted relationships
> that would come out of it would enable private conversations of a
> sensitive nature (like this one) to happen with more ease.
>

I'm not against anyone taking the initiative and setting up a "guild" (is
that what the Marketplace on groups.drupal.org/marketplace is becoming? I
don't know...) but it makes me VERY uneasy.

Drupal itself already has the reputation of being very insular in nature. I
would like to continue to work to grow the ecosystem of developers that
"know" Drupal...everything from best practices around the API to the "best
practices" of community involvement. I suspect a guild-like structure will
prove even more of a turn off / barrier to additional developers entering
the community.

I don't know that we want to have to carry the burden of business best
practices as well....software development is a very wide space, and
development of Drupal is no different than any other technology choices.

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Boris Mann
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San Francisco 415-367-3595
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