[development] Very concerned over Drupal's core development

[Earl Miles]

Angela Byron wrote:
> We have this kind of decentralized development model, where one or two 
> people are solely responsible for code with basically zero peer review. 
> It's called contrib. And it's notoriously filled with sub-standard, 
> shoddily documented code that needs to be closely inspected by 
> individual site maintainers before being deployed on any serious 
> production sites.

I stop following your argument here. The only way this argument holds up 
is that if *all* of contrib is substandard crap. It is not. There is a 
level of contrib that is above that, and there is a reason those 
particular pieces of contrib are above that. Chew on that.