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DrupalEasy Podcast 71: The College Years
Prolific Drupal contributor Dave Reid joins Ryan Price and Mike Anello on the first DrupalEasy podcast of 2012. They discuss the Meta Tags module (and why it’s not just for SEO anymore), Drupal’s security team, Drupal 8’s WSCCI initiative, the increasing complexity of Drupal’s code and the decreasing number of core contributors.
Five Four Stories
- Dave Reid (Dave Reid on Drupal.org)
- Rethinking WSCCI
- Drupal core office hours update
- Is the Web Dead? chx says no
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- Mike - WeeNudge.com - Teach your clients about the web - a collection of articles about various web development topics that can be used to help educate clients.
- Ryan - 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design
- Dave - Nodewords 6.x-1.13 finally released
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5 comments
I'm having a little trouble
I'm having a little trouble when using drupal. I have not used drupal before, but from the synopsis and the information I read, this application is quite nice and has a maximum performance. Randeep Grewal
Oh, the show was great!
I just meant in the teaser text above.
-xjm
Hmmm, misleading... core devs NOT decreasing
The number of core developers is not decreasing, not at all. It has increased more or less linearly with each major version, from 300 or so in Drupal 4.7 to nearly 1000 in Drupal 7. Furthermore, as of Dec. 19, 485 people already had commit mentions for Drupal 8--twice as many as there were by the same point in the Drupal 7 cycle. So, core is thriving, and more and more people are getting involved.
What is decreasing is the ratio of developers to open issues, or developers to Drupal users, because the latter two quantities appear at a casual glance to be increasing geometrically rather than linearly. So that ratio goes down. This may be inevitable, though.
More info:
http://xjm.drupalgardens.com/blog/core-and-you
Cheers,
xjm :)
XJM, That is my understanding
XJM,
That is my understanding as well, though not having the same intimate knowledge as you, it didn't come out like that.
We should have you on the show some time. Dave's numerous mentions of you have convinced me of that.
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