I have never understood how anyone could say Drupal is light. Because I have had many people tell me that, and when I tested it out and was using it for the heck of it, I couldn’t see the lightness anywhere.

When I tried out Drupal 7, the control panel interface was horrid and confusing. I just could not understand what people saw in it.

Doesn’t Drupal get lots of contributions from bigger companies too? I thought I heard something along those lines, but I could be imagining it.

Who’s idea was it to run government websites on Drupal?

“Who’s idea was it to run government websites on Drupal?”

Obama, of course.

“Drupal core blocks its very own modernization and innovation, and started to heavily lack behind competitors and the overall industry in the past years. It is a stupidly old, poor, and monolothic beast.”

Then StartFromScratch™ which is what commonly follows when a project collapses. Still waiting for a decent version of XMMS2

> Then StartFromScratch™ which is what commonly follows when a project collapses.

or ForkIt™... Does no one (I mean in the open source world) see what happens when stuff is open source? It’s fork after fork after fork! Don’t like it? Fork it and do what you want with it so work is distributed across multiple similar projects instead of focused on one.

Sure, I guess that keeps a project from completely disappearing compared to it being closed source, but having many different “distros” isn’t any good either.

Will there be different distros of Drupal soon? I mean, are there already?

Oops, my bad… http://www.drupaldistrowatch.com/

I’d say starting from scratch is often better than forking. Starting from scratch lets you learn from your past mistakes, forking simply encourages you to maintain the legacy of those mistakes.

Worse still, excessive forking gets confusing as hell. At least if you have successors (say JQuery succeeding Prototype) all the previous code all still works.

I’d say ForkIt™ but after they read this http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Obviously they should do things no one wants to do (RefactoringIsNotFunny™) and train the Linux Youth, but why on hell would anyone do this boring stuff?

Well, working on a content management system with PHP codez is much easier… Then they can work up to the mess that is the Linux kernel!

“Obama, of course.”

Yeah, Obama also decides what make and model the radars in Alaska will be. It doesn’t work this way. The guy in charge of the site, who was appointed by the guy in charge of the IT systems, who was appointed by the guy in charge of something else etc… made the decision.

Anyway, if you were building a website today, what CRM software would you use? (proprietary or free, doesn’t matter)

“Yeah, Obama also decides what make and model the radars in Alaska will be.”

Of course! That’s what socialist secret-Muslims born outside the USA do!

(In case someone still doesn’t get it, I was being sarcastic. I’m just sick of reading irrelevant comments about Obama on the internet)

Glad to hear it IMGX64. I got pissed off when everyone started blaming Bush for every little problem(I once heard some woman bitch at him for bad traffic) and now I get pissed off when they blame Obama for all of life’s ills. They’re presidents, not smegging gods.

Drupal is awesome. It’s also sponsored and used by the US Government. This article is FUD.

“Drupal is awesome”

Says the guy who can’t (even) code (in PHP).

I can outcode anywhere here. You are all idiots. Especially you masterLoki.

Beg you pardon? Outcode? Is that even a word?

Then show us some code! ;-)