[consulting] Staying Current

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

> I personally don't even have an account to release it on d.o. :)

Hmm, that also means you don't have an account to report issues. I sense a
larger problem here...

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, you can guarantee nobody else will use or support
your
> > code if you never release it.
>
> I personally don't even have an account to release it on d.o. :)
>
> > How do you know this? Seems to me that even the silliest pieces of code
> > we've released have been used by others. You just never know...
>
> Not silly but rather 100% custom. As in unless you have our custom
> data fields and our custom status fields, then not only will the code
> not work, it wouldn't even make sense. I at least have modules like
> that.
>
> > I think it's worth noting that I'm not accusing anyone on this list of
> > selling "crap" or purposefully misleading a client. I'm just stating a
very
> > uncontroversial fact that there are many people who do both of these
> > purposefully, and many more who do the second with the best of
intentions.
>
> Agreed. Thank you for clarifying.
>
> > Technology costs money to maintain, and even if you don't know precisely
how
> > much the cost is, you should know that it's there.
> >
> > As I also stated, we too have legacy clients from when we started using
> > Drupal whose sites we didn't build in the way I'm advocating, and we've
> > migrated/fixed/rebuilt many others. My opinions are coming from my own
> > experience (both in this real and from my experience as a
Network/Systems
> > Admin for a mid-sized university for 8 years), and while it's perfectly
fine
> > if my experience doesn't track well to others', I haven't read anything
here
> > that convinces me to discount them.
>
> Yes, your experience is actually (thus far) very interesting. I was
> not aware of these issues before. I now have a much better
> understanding.
>
> F
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