[drupal-docs] Why we decided to add reference to the drupal
handbook in administration help
Gabor Hojtsy
gabor at hojtsy.hu
Thu Sep 29 14:17:42 UTC 2005
>> I agree. With everyone I work with in training to use Drupal, this
>> would be a big plus. Is there some downside to doing this that should
>> make us consider otherwise?
>
> The only thing I can think of is there might be developers who create
> Drupal-based websites for clients but wish to take steps to hide the
> fact that it's Drupal, for whatever reason they might have
> (security-by-obscurity, making it so clients don't have a perception
> that they're getting a "canned" website, trying to charge clients for
> something the company claims they built themselves..?).
It is not just keeping the clients in the dark, but if you modify some
inner working substantially (like I forward ported the 4.4 tracker view
to one of my 4.6 sites, since we were accustomed to that view, and were
interested in recent comments). Now with changes like this, the admin
help links point to some documentation which is not relevant to that
exact module I have on the site. Sure, one who modifes Drupal so
heavily, can easily remove this part of the help text either by doing a
"translation" or by editing the code.
Goba
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