[development] Bike Shed: Developing for Drupal

[Jason Flatt]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 05:11 pm, Rowan Kerr wrote:
> On 10-Feb-06, at 1:01 AM, Arnab Nandi wrote:
> >> From a discussion about NLD10 and xgl. I thought it was very relevant
> >
> > to the drupal devel crowd:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-February/
> > msg00115.html
>
> There are definitely some interesting points in there. And we can see
> the same dynamics at work already in Drupal to some extent.
>
> Funny, in a way, that the article relates to the Gnome project.. Trae
> and I had a bit of a discussion of Drupal and Gnomeish ways such as
> putting a lot of thought into picking "sane defaults" that will work
> well for many people. That way of thinking could be one of the things
> that moves Drupal up Dries' Y-axis of "easy to use" (from his roadmap
> presentation in Vancouver).
>
> Good thing it's so easy to make modules for Drupal to build new
> functionality without any fork-mongering :)
>
> -Rowan

It's interesting, as I don't see the negative aspects so strong in the Drupal 
community like they are referred to the GNOME community in that e-mail.  
Maybe I just haven't been here long enough.  :^)  I see them in other 
projects, but would be way OT here.

-- 
Jason Flatt
http://www.oadae.net/
Father of Six:  http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 13; Cramer, 11; Travis, 
9; Angela; Harry, 5; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005)
Linux User:     http://www.sourcemage.org/
Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/