+1 On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:32 PM, matt j. sorenson wrote:
> An anecdote on re: manpower applied to a theoretical ASF-hosted alternative > > I've been a participant of and observer to the Drupal open source community > for nearly a decade. Drupal version 7 was released, I believe, in March > 2011. Drupal.org, the canonical destination for contributions to drupal > along with user forums, and issue queues for contributed projects, is > offline *today* (Halloween 2013), because after ~1.5 years of effort, the > site is finally ready to be upgraded from 6 to 7... all while most > Drupalers are anticipating the major version 8 release. > > Why the anecdote? There are troves and hoardes of information and > discussions in hundreds of thousands of lengthy pages within 'D.O.'... > anyone who has performed work on a drupal build out knows that end of the > day feeling of having 47 D.O. tabs open to modules and offensively long > issue pages (to issues unresolved sometimes for years) and forum > discussions, trying to pinpoint the cause and fix for some odd unexpected > behavior. > > But there is also, now, and for some time, a drupal.stackexchange site. And > I am finding more and more that the SE site is of increasing value. Better > quality questions and answers, and more often than not... answers above the > fold :D > > That's not to say that algorithms to float the more useful content of D.O. > up and sink all the noise to the bottom of the sea (sorry, Robert) could > not be implemented some day... but, would the Drupal infra team tackle that > before or after the upgrade to Drupal 8?! > > Just wanted to fill in some of the background re: my perspective > --Matt
