[documentation] Re: NEED CHANGE IN RSS OUTPUT

[Liza Sabater]

On Dec 01 2005, at 11:49, Morbus Iff wrote:

> As a search engine *user*, I could give two shits about *who* wrote  
> something. What's important to me is *what that person has said*.  
> Authority or name recognition should not influence opinion. [1]

That's the way you think of as a developer not as a user who is  
focused on web-presence and/or brand recognition. As I said before,  
this should not be an either/or proposition. Drupal Users should have  
the ability to change this if they so wanted to. Who are you to  
impose your standards or lack thereof of usability on Drupal Users?  
You ought not be imposing, through your software development choices,  
your POV about usability.

Software art has proven that code can be very subjective, personal,  
treated even as poetry or a second language. And all of that is  
beautiful when executed aesthetically.

When we are talking about a product, no matter how open-source and  
free it may be, your opinions as a coder cannot override the way and  
will of users. And in this case, when you are selling Drupal as a  
powerful yet easy to use COMMUNITY platform. Your attitude in this  
comment --along with other core developers-- is alarming. You are  
telling your people, your community to fuck off, that you know better  
when you are at the same time telling them this software IS  
community? What kind of a mixed message is that?

This does not have to be an either/or issue. If the core developers  
believe they know better than most of the top designers and usability  
experts then, hey, fine. But make it possible for people to switch to  
the second, most prevalent option. All it takes for core developers  
is to either include the second option in the code snippets gallery

http://drupal.org/node/23220

or put it in as a comment on the module that could be then commented  
out by users.

These development practices would tell me that as you are coding 'for  
yourself' (as Ber pointed out in another thread) you are at the same  
time using the software to BUILD COMMUNITY not just MANAGE CONTENT.

It's amazing to me that again, COMMUNITY is so absent from your  
software development practices; when COMMUNITY in the marketing of  
Drupal was discussed for months this year by the documentation group.

I find your attitude not only a major disservice to Drupal; but  
harmful as well.

And I still have not had my question answered.

/ liza