[documentation] Some thoughts

[liza]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> Drupal has grown so much. I believe there are significant problems in how
> the community is "scaling." There isn't precedent for such a large open
> source community. Dries' leadership is absolutely welcoming, rewarding based
> on merit, self-reflective, self-critical... but I don't think that
> leadership gets to other levels. But that's getting us somewhere else.
>

Exactly!

It used to be that the Drupal site developer was a jack of all trades: she
had to deal with design, usability, documentation, server side and API
issues all by herself. But as her skills grew, her needs grew and
specialization is now what she needs: people really good at documentation,
really good at design, really good at UI/UX, etc. doing what they do best.

She doesnt want to be a half-assed coder or a half-asses engineer. She just
wants to make really usable sites with a powerful platform.

Drupal developers, especially module developers, could be doing so much more
if we had a system in place that better allowed for "real life testing" of
modules based on distros and not the bare-bones Drupal site that almost
never breaks. And that would allow for better documentation by others, a
feat with words and user-directed communication that is not necessarily the
forte of many who are comfortable communicating through code.

In other words, everybody wins when we think of "user-friendly".

/liza
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