[documentation] Hitchhikers guide to Drupal

[Steven Peck]

As I say in the fourms almost anytime someone does this.  There are lots of ways to contribute without coding.  It doesn;t mean features you want will get in any faster, but after a while, you will be heard more clearly if you have been activly involved and contributing for a while.  
 
On the bright side, we have lots of devs that give back.  We also have some that are getting cranky.  The barrage of attacks this last few months has been interesting.  Many are from new accounts.  Several have proudly stated that they don't have to contribute and they won't.  This just tends to agravate the situation.  
 
So, we need a philosophy doc.  We have people who do not know what the Open Source movement and philosophy are.  They need to be educated and we need a doc/statement for when people make demands that we can link  them to then ignore them unless they are more polite and learn how to behave and play nice.
 
-sp

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From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Charlie Lowe
Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 6:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [documentation] Hitchhikers guide to Drupal





Laura Scott wrote:

> (For anyone interested, I wrote more about this topic here
> <http://www.pingv.com/blog/laura/200601/on-itch-scratching-hitchhikers-and-growing-within-the-interactive-ecosystem>.)

Nice post.
>
> I strongly feel that we all would be better served by a more proactive
> approach. We would all benefit from more user participation, more
> discussion of user experience, and more discussion of application in the
> real world -- discussion that would nourish all areas of development.

Right. This is a core principle of user-centered design: user
involvement. Relying on the "developer as user" for the main user input
in Drupal development will not accurately address all of the needs (I
suspect only a minority of the needs) of the larger community of Drupal
users. It's a common problem in FOSS development communities, one that
Drupal has worked towards in small ways and one that it needs to overcome.
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