Just my insignificant .02: As a relatively new (about a year) Drupal developer and a long time Microsoft programmer/supporter turned open source advocate I would be totally turned off by any .NET/Microsoft involvement whatsoever.
* Ryan LeTulle,* Web Developer personal: bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com> twitter: @bayousoft <http://twitter.com/bayousoft> <http://twitter.com/bayousoft> <http://twitter.com/bayousoft>*"Be the change you want to see in the world." * Mahatma Gandhi On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Justin Ellison <jus...@techadvise.com>wrote: > I was going to keep quiet on this one, but Scott's mail spurred me to back > him up. I'm pretty sure I'm the one that started the Area51 link being > passed around twitter. I think the StackExchange site is an excellent idea, > but I knew that the conversation would quickly become "we could do it > ourselves with modules X, Y, and Z". > > Drupal is a swiss army knife. However, if I have to chop down a tree and > have my swiss army knife sitting right next to my chainsaw (that was built > specifically to chop down trees), which one will I pick up? Just because I > *can* use my knife doesn't mean I *should*. > > With my background in the sysadmin world, we're often preaching using the > best tool for the job, and I think that mantra is being overlooked here. > > I understand the that the idea of having a .NET site run any part of > something endorsed by d.o is a bit unsettling, but you can't deny how cheap > it would be. It costs little to no time, no custom module needs built, and > it will cost zero in terms of infrastructure. > > All the hard work is already done wrt the StackExchange setup, all it needs > now are committals from the community to use it. Why not at least help push > it forward just to see how it's received by the community? If nothing else, > use the StackExchange site as a pilot/prototype, assess its strengths and > shortcomings, then develop a homegrown solution to succeed it? > > The bottom line here is that it will take very little effort to get the > StackExchange site up and running, and I don't think anyone here would argue > that what we have right now is better than what the StackExchange site would > provide. > > I should clarify that I'm not dead set on the idea either, and I'm not > saying I'm right. These are just questions and ideas of mine that no one > else has brought up. If you think I'm completely off base, please tell me > why. > > Justin > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Scott Reynen < > sc...@makedatamakesense.com> wrote: > >> ... > > 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. >> >> -- >> Scott Reynen >> MakeDataMakeSense.com >> > >
