Is Acquia leading or driving Drupal development?

Verfasst von sun am 10. Januar 2012 - 23:19

No.

Be, Design, Develop, Do: Portfolio.

Verfasst von sun am 1. Dezember 2011 - 4:19

There's multi-purpose, single-purpose, and non-purpose; the latter being Drupal core.

The Drupal project struggled for years to agree on a use-case for a concrete product to build with and in the community.

Drupal can be used in many different ways. And everyone agrees that Drupal core must not prioritize one way over any other. But at the same time, we present Drupal core to newcomers and evaluators; a poor and pointless application that doesn’t do or solve anything. This time is over.

The Mentoring Sprint

Verfasst von sun am 14. Oktober 2011 - 1:49

A guest post by Fredrik Lassen (frega) of flink solutions and Reinhard Gloggengiesser (reglogge) of Wunderkraut.

There have been recent discussions about the maintainability and sustainability of Drupal core. They highlighted a significant lack in the number of skilled Drupal contributors. So the question is: how can we improve the quality of contributions and increase the quantity of skilled contributors?

The Time is Now

Verfasst von sun am 28. August 2011 - 4:57

In light and in the spirit of Drupal...

Crisis Conclusions

Verfasst von sun am 25. August 2011 - 7:37

I want to be honest. I expected and feared a lot of backslash, disagreements, and even name-calling on my Drupal Crisis blog post. But to my surprise, almost everyone who provided feedback mostly agreed with most issues raised, and even more so on the overall problem space at glance.

The Drupal Crisis

Verfasst von sun am 23. August 2011 - 18:16

There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone:

February 2008: Drupal 7 opened for development.

Oktober 2008: 285 unresolved bugs for Drupal 7.

Leadership

Verfasst von sun am 13. April 2011 - 3:47

It can be wrong to delegate. It can be wrong to hide from the details. It is wrong to keep on moving silently like you always did.

Mollom module for Drupal 7 released

Verfasst von sun am 17. Januar 2011 - 5:21

Earlier this week, we released the first stable version of the Mollom module for Drupal 7. The release denotes a major milestone for the engineering team at Mollom, because we started to track the development of Drupal 7 very early and kept the module always compatible to latest code in Drupal core.