[development] Can cash for views/cck help speed Drupal 6 adoption?

[Moshe Weitzman]

i'll add that the CCK team has expressed a strong plea for funding in
order to solve the "fields in core" task. this is a goal we all share
for D7, but it isn't likely to happen without funding. it is a big
task. if anyone is willing to fund this, i suggest contacting karen
karen (http://drupal.org/user/45874) or yves
(http://drupal.org/user/39567).

-moshe

On Jan 25, 2008 1:20 PM, Steve Dondley <sdondley+drupal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, this struck me as the right answer, too. So, the next question
> is, what kind of budget would we be looking at? Once we have a goal,
> then we can find businesses to help meet it.
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 12:09 PM, Robert Douglass <rob at robshouse.net> wrote:
> > Here's my take on the situation. There isn't very much really good
> > in-depth writing about Views from the smart developer's standpoint. I'm
> > not talking about how to do Views integration with your module, which is
> > pretty well understood. There's a little more out there for CCK, and
> > that might be one of the reasons more people feel equipped to develop
> > CCK. CCK has already been around longer, and was the result of much more
> > collaboration from the onset. These are just historical observations.
> >
> > Where money might really make a difference in the long run would be to
> > hire someone smart to really dive into Views 2 and write about how it
> > works. The whole Views developer ecosystem is focused on "providing
> > views integration with X" and lots of people can now do this. It's a
> > different matter altogether, though, when it comes to understanding how
> > it works in the back end.
> >
> > -Robert
> >
> >
> > Earl Miles wrote:
> > > Steve Dondley wrote:
> > >> 1) CCK and Views modules conversion to Drupal 6 is far behind.
> > >
> > > Depends what you mean by behind. I had a commitment to Panels before I
> > > had a commitment to Views 2, and it's not feasible to work seriously
> > > on both simultaneously. Once Panels 2 hit beta, Views 2 work started
> > > picking back up. That was less than a month ago.
> > >
> > >> 4) CCK and Views module conversion is slow because they are complex
> > >> modules done in people's spare time.
> > >
> > > I spend a lot of sponsored time on Views 2. CCK is more spare time,
> > > but there is a bigger group working on CCK and they had a 4 month head
> > > start on me.
> > >
> > >> 5) Paying experienced drupal coders to work on these project will
> > >> speed development of these modules.
> > >
> > > The main problem I see is getting developers up to speed. It requires
> > > my resources to teach people what I want them to do. That said, I can
> > > still use the help of a couple of really good devs, but I don't have
> > > time for devs who aren't already very familiar with Views. And I can
> > > count on my hands the number of devs I've spoken to who qualify, and I
> > > can count on my head the number of those devs who have time to commit
> > > to it (and that's with or without a monetary incentive).
> > >
> > >> 6) Firms that build websites using Drupal have an interest in rolling
> > >> out newer and better versions of Drupal so they remain competitive.
> > >> 7) These firms have cash to pay experienced Drupal coders.
> > >> 8) It would be wise to have these firms pool money together to help
> > >> speed the development of Views and CCK.
> > >
> > > PingVision offered, but I think they were expecting me to be more
> > > proactive about assembling resources. Unfortunately, one thing I am
> > > not is a good project manager -- I find it distracting and difficult
> > > to try to manage developers when what I really want to do is have my
> > > head deep in code, coming up with solutions.
> > >
> >
> >
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