On 1/31/11 8:45 AM, Michelle Cox wrote:
It's not like it would be _that_ hard to do
Indeed, the lead developer of Stack Overflow says reproducing the site's
basic functionality is trivial:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.html
But he also says that functionality is irrelevant without all of the
other aspects of the site, which are non-trivial.
A linked article gets more into how this relates to common problems in
open source communities focusing too much on the code and too little on
everything else:
http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/
And that sounds a lot like what the Drupal community has been working
hard to improve the last few years, so this might be a good opportunity
to push that even further.
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Scott Reynen
MakeDataMakeSense.com
