[consulting] Drupal site development but with restrictions

Cameron Eagans cweagans at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 20:20:19 UTC 2012


I've seen universities that have dev shops build something like Drupal
Gardens, and then give the appropriate people access to said system, but
I've never seen a successful project where the client went in saying "You
can't use any custom code, and you're limited to the modules that I want
you to use"
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Cameron Eagans
http://cweagans.net


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:

>
> Why are they doing it? Explain to them the consequences as they may
>> have no idea. Tell them: You know that if you do this, then I can't do
>> Feature X nor Y for you.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
> I'm definitely letting them know the consequences.
>
> I'm mostly curious if this is a trend that others have seen, particularly
> where Acquia is involved as the host. (I'm not clear on whether Acquia has
> encouraged them to do this or they decided on their own.)
>
> But it seems Drupal is growing enormously in the University market, and
> Acquia in the hosting market, so I wanted to know if others have run into
> this particular issue, which is basically a University taking a Drupal
> Gardens approach to all the related sites.
>
> Sam
>
>
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