I can only agree with everything in Davids reflection on the article. They mirror my own very well.
I am working on my first serious attempt to create an open source project. It's reading about experiences like yours that inspires and motivates me keep working in the ideas. Being able to understand what you both, with such greater experience than me, explains Open Source is all about is confirming I'm on the right track with stuff...
I think Drupal simply has fallen victim of its own success.
The 4+ years I have been a member of the community I have seen it having an amazing, and accelerating, growth. At the same time is has also become a much familiar name and player for the general public. Both the public and private sector is aware of its existence and are often placing Drupal at the top of their list of potentials when shopping around.
So, instead of "complaining" about the lack of talent, we need to look at it for what it is. A result of the increasing demand for Drupal and an opportunity for new talent to make a living out of it.
For me all this is very positive as it shows that Drupal will be around for years to come and thus is safe for everyone to bet their future on.
The real challenges the community has is how we handle the long term growth of Drupal and stop looking so much for short term fixes. Everyone knows the Drupal learning curve is very steep. The only way to fix that is to look long term and what is needed to be done to get there.
At DrupalCon in Munich I heard over and over Drupal 8 Core Initiative leads talking about how hard it is for them to get needed resources, funding just one part, to really make their initiative as ready as possible before feature/code freeze. Looking at how much money the Drupal ecosystem consists of, what they need is almost to be considered as coffee money.
So, how do we solve the problem of funding the much needed long term development of Drupal? If we find the answer to that, a lot will become much easier for all of us.
Authored Comments
I can only agree with everything in Davids reflection on the article. They mirror my own very well.
I am working on my first serious attempt to create an open source project. It's reading about experiences like yours that inspires and motivates me keep working in the ideas. Being able to understand what you both, with such greater experience than me, explains Open Source is all about is confirming I'm on the right track with stuff...
I think Drupal simply has fallen victim of its own success.
The 4+ years I have been a member of the community I have seen it having an amazing, and accelerating, growth. At the same time is has also become a much familiar name and player for the general public. Both the public and private sector is aware of its existence and are often placing Drupal at the top of their list of potentials when shopping around.
So, instead of "complaining" about the lack of talent, we need to look at it for what it is. A result of the increasing demand for Drupal and an opportunity for new talent to make a living out of it.
For me all this is very positive as it shows that Drupal will be around for years to come and thus is safe for everyone to bet their future on.
The real challenges the community has is how we handle the long term growth of Drupal and stop looking so much for short term fixes. Everyone knows the Drupal learning curve is very steep. The only way to fix that is to look long term and what is needed to be done to get there.
At DrupalCon in Munich I heard over and over Drupal 8 Core Initiative leads talking about how hard it is for them to get needed resources, funding just one part, to really make their initiative as ready as possible before feature/code freeze. Looking at how much money the Drupal ecosystem consists of, what they need is almost to be considered as coffee money.
So, how do we solve the problem of funding the much needed long term development of Drupal? If we find the answer to that, a lot will become much easier for all of us.