Drupal core development workflow
Friday, 30. October 2009 - 23:58

So it seems Larry Garfield (Crell) and me nailed a serious issue in Jimmy Berry's (boombatower) post about Drupal core development, where even chx's idea of sub-system maintainers not being able/allowed to commit their own patches would not help, because the lack of communication and coordination remains. In fact, adding more people with commit access would vastly increase the problem, and now that I think about it, this is exactly...

Any Drupal developers out there?
Saturday, 19. September 2009 - 7:17

This one is going to be short.

If you want to make Drupal 7 any sense for developers, themers, and users, then you really want to spend a fair amount of time on issues tagged with "API clean-up":

http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=API%20clean-up

In case you think you don't have time, then please prepare for not complaining later. Thanks.

We roughly have 3 weeks left...

Challenges for Drupal
Monday, 7. September 2009 - 16:47

DrupalCon Paris is over. Countless of badly needed discussions and brainstormings happened, and we have a couple of weeks to finalize and clean up all of the new APIs and features we added to Drupal 7. I am highly confident that Dries and Angie will continue to do an awesome job in bringing Drupal 7 home and ensuring that it will be a sane release.

But let's think a bit beyond that. I briefly talked with Dries and webchick about it. On my way home, I dedicated the...

Drupal 7 is not ready yet
Sunday, 30. August 2009 - 22:38

So here we are. The feature-set and API of Drupal 7 is about to freeze. It contains many - actually plenty - of awesome and noteworthy improvements and new features. But those will be covered elsewhere and I don't want to talk about that.

Instead, we should talk about how we can assure a top quality and deliver a new Drupal release that actually works and is usable, both for users and developers. By all means, I have no influence on the decisions that will be taken, so this is a plain recommendation from someone who develops both for Drupal core and contributed modules, and...

Hello world!
Tuesday, 25. August 2009 - 4:19

As you may have experienced on your own, when being involved in consulting and development business, it can be very hard to find the time to work on your own presentation, which - of course - totally must include your great ideas and showcase your own quality standards... ;)

Our relaunch, we actually started to prepare around 1.5 years ago. But as usual, we got sidetracked into countless of client projects "in between", and never really found the spare time to schedule some dedicated time for our own site. We even considered to find someone else to do it for us, but that would...