[development] Very concerned over Drupal's core development

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:

> Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
>> weigh in and participate in the review process.  It is also important
>> that you convince other people as why your patch should bubble up --
>> this is something a lot of people can get better at.
>>
>
> This statement right here is what's wrong with Drupal core development. At
> this time, you must be better at debate, arguing and general Drupal politics
> than you are at actual code design and implementation.
>
> At one point 'talk is silver, code is gold' was the motto. But this has
> changed. Now talk is gold and code is defined by those who talk the best.
>

The barrier for me isn't the complexity by any means. It's more the politics
and sheer stubborness required to implement change. I'm not a politician.
I'm a programmer.
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