Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly. I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
I've found that if you're using more or less mainstream modules, there's plenty of activity. If you're off on the fringes, be prepared to fix problems yourself.
I've found that asking questions is a great way to avoid getting answers. Perhaps things have improved since my last attempt at getting into Drupal (n years ago for n on [2,4]), but at the time it was impossible to even find enough API documentation to develop an extension for such eccentric fringes as wanting a sane work flow for content writers.
These days there are modules which provide a sane workflow. I guess other people were working on them. I am somewhat dismayed at how long it is taking to bring out D7, on which I am waiting for any number of projects. D7 has the database refactoring in it.
This is the classic response to any Drupal query: "There's a module to do that." But what they never tell you is that the module does not work properly with D6 yet, or that the module is just a stub and requires you to create all your pages with Views or CCK or both (which is more complicated than writing the whole site from scratch yourself,) or that the module is not compatible with one of the 17 other modules you already had to install just to be able to put images on your site.
Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly. I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
you obviously haven't posted anything in CCK, views, or adv forum issue queues. Earl, Michelle and Karen can be pretty damn quick on the replies.
I don't really get what makes going into irc sad, and for it not being searchable later, that's 100% ur own fault. If u take a while to find a solution, but u find it eventually... how about you document it hm? or do u rly expect every1 else to do everything for u?
but yea, trolling IRC pretty much 24/7 has made me come to understand that 95% of the questions posed
The community isn't really vibrant. (Score:4, Interesting)
Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly.
I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
Re:The community isn't really vibrant. (Score:4, Informative)
I've found that if you're using more or less mainstream modules, there's plenty of activity. If you're off on the fringes, be prepared to fix problems yourself.
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These days there are modules which provide a sane workflow. I guess other people were working on them. I am somewhat dismayed at how long it is taking to bring out D7, on which I am waiting for any number of projects. D7 has the database refactoring in it.
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This is the classic response to any Drupal query: "There's a module to do that." But what they never tell you is that the module does not work properly with D6 yet, or that the module is just a stub and requires you to create all your pages with Views or CCK or both (which is more complicated than writing the whole site from scratch yourself,) or that the module is not compatible with one of the 17 other modules you already had to install just to be able to put images on your site.
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which is another way to say what I said above: Drupal is fine as a blog or a news site. For everything else, look elsewhere.
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Looking for answers or reporting bugs is somewhat unsatisfying in drupal. To be honest not really drupal but the modules but since they're actually what makes sites useful. Bugs and supportrequests go unanswered for months unfortunatly.
I love drupal and use it for my own site but finding support is quite hard. Usually it means going into irc and bothering people there which is a bit sad since most answers aren't searchable later. Yes I do try to add the answers I get to drupal.org in case you were wondering.
Ok, so this wasn't exactly on topic but hey, not many drupal stories show up on slashdot so I thought I'd grab the chance to whine a little.
you obviously haven't posted anything in CCK, views, or adv forum issue queues. Earl, Michelle and Karen can be pretty damn quick on the replies.
I don't really get what makes going into irc sad, and for it not being searchable later, that's 100% ur own fault. If u take a while to find a solution, but u find it eventually... how about you document it hm? or do u rly expect every1 else to do everything for u?
but yea, trolling IRC pretty much 24/7 has made me come to understand that 95% of the questions posed