[drupal-docs] Doc forum, "best practices", etc.

[Steven Peck]

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_practice

Best Practice is lingo.  It is a very specific type of lingo and very
important.  There are a number of ways to do things with Drupal (any
software product in the industry) but there are often a few standard
ones that will serve most people safely, securely and repeatedly.  Many
times these are learned through painful experience, hopefully other
peoples experience and not yours.  In software development and systems
engineering those come to be called Best Practices.  Many professional
software companies put together Best Practices documentation.  In fact,
when a vender comes to sell a product, one of the things my company
looks for is that they have Best Practices documentation for their
product.

I wrote the current Best Practices guidelines here:
http://drupal.org/node/17557 in response to repeated forum questions and
cries for help to hopefully alleviate and reduce the occurrence.  If we
are going to add more best practices, then mine should probably be
renamed Best Practices for Site Administration but it should still
reside high up in the admin section where people are reminded to backup
their site, etc.  

I am a systems engineer for a living so I wrote my article from that
perspective.  I have always wanted to write a site build document but
never had the time, one like 'how I built my site'.  Server build
documentation is a requirement where I work for systems I am responsible
for so my lack of time to do this for my personal site has been driving
me slightly nuts (So HAPPY that more people are playing).  

>> Boris Mann wrote:
>> the audience would be Site Admins, and the topic would be Site Setup
and/or General Concepts. 

I like this idea.  How about 'Common Site Configurations'

-sp

> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Anisa
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] Doc forum, "best practices", etc.
> 
> I don't get a sense of the content from the title 'best 
> practices'.  It 
> appears to be lingo.  :)
> 
> Why is it a best practices thingy?  Just skimming, it seems 
> to be more 
> about the various Drupal bits.
> 
> Anisa.
>