[consulting] Who exactly is this list for?

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, George <g at 8vue.com> wrote:

> Brian Vuyk wrote:
> > I think this mailing list has the potential to be one of the best tools
> > for improving Drupal in the community. As a group, I imagine we put
> > Drupal through a larger variety of real-world projects than any other
> > group. I also believe that we have the best view of Drupal's
> > shortcomings. This is what we can use to improve Drupal.  I believe open
> > and honest discussion as to the suitability of Drupal to various project
> > types will drive improvement.
> isn't that more suited to the dev list or a 'drupal shortcomings' mail
> list, and not a consultant list? and when you say 'this is what we can
> use to improve drupal', then, maybe i'm missing something, but your
> profile doesn't show any core patches or modules (user/46854?), of
> course you're not obliged to post any, but, this is not a personal
> attack, but to everyone - what exactly are *you* doing to improve drupal
> with the help of this mailing list?



Lets see I wrote imagecache when people were asking about how do you
manipulate images with drupal... I wrote nodereferrer while people were
chatting about using node reference, some praising it's glories others
following and finding short comings...  Should I go through the rest of the
code I've written for Drupal for you? There is a good bit of it... I pay
close attention to this list and it fuels me with ideas about which parts of
Drupal to work on.. or what I could code up next to get some some dev
contracts from some consultants...

So whether  "consultants" are leveraging this list or improving Drupal
themselves... There are others who observe the list traffic and red it...









>
>
> going into webchick mode, she would say it's great people are discussing
> drupal's shortcomings, but if nothing is being done, then it's hot air,
> and a waste of time. drupal is a do-ocracy to quote add1sun. but still,
> this is a consultant list, not a help-drupal list.
>
> to the non-programmers, even if an answer was given to your problem, any
> programmer will tell you there's more than one solution to a problem,
> so, the solution for person x, may not be right for you. discussing
> problems with how to do something is a support issue, and just *is not*
> a consultants issue. (working on the assumption consultants actually
> know their sh*zzle, which may i assume that mostly, they do...)
>
> more of my 2c
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