On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Angela Byron <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, this *absolutely* happened with D7. It was an *incredibly* small "core" > group of < 20-30 people who resulted in Drupal 7 ever actually shipping. > Post-code freeze, which more-or-less coincided with this IRC policy change, I > can think of only a small handful of new contributors who came on board who > were not already involved previously. > > Now, since there's really no way to quantify data around this, it's difficult > to say what percentage of this lack of contributors phenomenon was related to > this policy change, what was the "post-code freeze blues", how much of it is > steeper requirements to get a core patch in (e.g. tests, subsystem maintainer > sign-off), how much of it is the fact that certain members of our community > were paid to care about bugs (e.g. Acquians and Examiner.comians) and others > weren't, or what exactly the breakdown there was. I'm sure all of these, and > more, were factors. >
Ah... when I first read this it really upset me, so I went on and read some other stuff next. I tried to help out with Drupal 7 here and there... but one change wasn't wanted, and another critical issue I tried to help with - a lot of the critical issues were dreadfully complex to someone not soaking in the project - got bikeshedded to death and pushed down out of critical, so I walked away from Drupal 7 development. It's not all IRC. Some of it is just... something else. Maybe it's because I'm a shoddy person to work on core, and I need to learn more (what, I'm not sure) before I'm welcome to help out with it, but it's not all people hiding away in #drupal-contribute. -- John Fiala www.jcfiala.net
