[drupal-docs] New book about Drupal?

[Jeremy Epstein]

This is a great idea! There's never been a better time to write a book
about Drupal - I think it's reached a point where it's mature and
stable enough for a printed book to work and to be useful. I thought
about writing a Drupal book myself (but not seriously - just a
daydream), but being young and shy and inexperienced, I probably
wouldn't get through the publisher's door.

I think that a book about Drupal should:
a) be focused towards developers - they're much more likely to be
interested in reading it than layman end-users;
b) focus on concepts and design principles, rather than on actual code
and features, since the latter can change radically between versions,
and since versions are released quite often (more often than printed
book editions) - whatever code/features are included should be the
more mature and stable ones;
c) include lots of information on the more popular contrib modules,
because this is (to a large extent) lacking in the docs that are
available online ATM.

I'd be happy to contribute some material to the book, particularly
regarding the taxonomy system, which is my 'drupal speciality' :-).

Jeremy Epstein.
www.greenash.net.au

On 8/9/05, puregin <puregin at puregin.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>       I'm seriously considering leaping into writing
> another book, about Drupal this time, of course.
> 
>      Anyone else thinking along the same lines?
> I'd love to hear from you.  It would be good to
> talk about possible collaboration/coordination,
> to compare notes and experiences, etc.
> 
>      Those more interested in reading than
> writing at this point - what would you like to
> see?  Any ideas re: format / theme / approaches
> you love/hate?
> 
>       Cheers, Djun