[development] Very concerned over Drupal's core development

[Matt Farina]

Two thoughts occurred to me on the community.

First, we are no longer what the community was 3 or 5 years ago. The  
front page of drupal has changed with a changing focus and need.  
Instead of a few thousand users there are hundreds of thousands of  
users. The front page of d.o has a different place in the ecosystem  
than it used to. But, we still need a place for some of those things  
that used to get posted. Is g.d.o the place for that?

Second, we seem to have a bit of an identity crisis. Is drupal a  
framework or a CMS? If it's both should they be cleanly separated? How  
does this and should this work? Moving the CMS like features into  
contrib, as some have suggested, seems to be centered around this. If  
we have a drupal framework and a drupal cms do we have maintainers for  
each piece? How does this interaction work?

Ah, growing pains. Now we just have to figure out how to bribe the  
kids to clean their rooms (i.e. review patches and clean the queue).


On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Stefan Nagtegaal wrote:

>
> Op 21 apr 2009, om 08:20 heeft Steven Peck het volgende geschreven:
>
>> <snip></snip>
>>
>> And Stefan, I too miss the old front page where it wasn't all site
>> implementations and Drupalcons but things people found interesting,
>> but that's just what happened.
>>
>> -sepeck
>
> Happy to hear that Sepeck, sometimes I wonder if it is just me who  
> is experiencing this.
> Drupal is not for users anymore, drupal is for making money and  
> profit. One example is the "Support the Drupal redesign! Donate Now"- 
> button, which is currently cycling over the frontpage. Why can't we  
> - as a community - build the new drupal.org design? It gives us a  
> good reality check why drupal is (too) hard for true designers.
>
> That said, you could wonder that if some module is moved from core  
> to contrib and dies silently, if it wasn't in core too long already.
> If nobody feels the urge to keep a certain module up to date, then  
> you could argue about its usefullnes.
>
> I would rather see modules like views(1|2|3).module in core, which  
> are very well designed and maintained and deserves to be in core,  
> because of it's quality and filling the gap which there currently is  
> in core. Building views/page-layouts is something drupal needs.  
> Although, I do not think that the current implementation is right,  
> the functionality surely is.
>
> Getting rid of modules like the help.module is not that smart imo.  
> Dries started a monster project to make drupal more accessible and  
> easier to use by attracting Mark Boulton and Leisa, which I think is  
> a good thing. Although, I do not doubt that they could make things  
> easier to use, but I'm pretty convinced they could not make things  
> as easy that the help texts are becoming redundant.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Stefan