The thing is, it's extremely irritating to be trying to work through a problem with another core contributor and be interrupted by "cweagans: how I can mine for fish? I need to do drupal" when I hadn't even been talking to them.
I mean, I understand that people need support, but support is a completely different arena than development. Also, when I started using Drupal (about 2.5 years ago), it wasn't just "us". It was (at the time) "us" and "the god-like creatures that contribute to core". Now, when I /join #drupal, I see the same kind of perspective. I don't think that splitting #drupal-contribute out of #drupal was the cause of that. It seems to me that it's a natural step in the overall progression of a community's growth. Thanks, Cameron On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 14:26, Ted <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/2011 3:49 PM, Angela Byron wrote: > >> In the end, I have absolutely no idea where Drupal 9 core/contrib >> developers are going to come from. And that is absolutely terrifying. >> > > I started developing with drupal a few years ago, and have started > contributing small patches and support answers. I'm here because Drupal > meets my needs much of the time, and because I have a self-interest in > helping everyone else. It works for me, and I figure that's the same way > developers will arrive in the future. Building the community is still a lot > of work, but maybe slightly less than absolutely terrifying. > > Too much to hope for? > > Ted > >
