Drupal: Product, Framework, or Platform?
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In its ten year history, Drupal has grown from a scrappy dorm project to an open source powerhouse that powers 1 in every 50 web sites. As the project and its community have expanded, however, the number of diverse stakeholders and guiding interests have multiplied. That's meant an ongoing tug-of-war for the project's direction, and the challenge of pleasing everyone has put increasing pressure on the developer community. As a community, we need to buckle down and make real choices about how we'll address the needs of our stakeholders, how we'll balance competing interests, and how we'll protect our limited developer resources from burnout while we're at it.
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- 1. Hello. I’m @eaton, and I’ll be your ranter.
- 2. I’m with Lullabot. We do cool stuff.
- 3. P O W E R E D b y S E R V I C E™ I’m with Lullabot. We do cool stuff.
- 6. This is Bob. His friend used Drupal to make a web site for his cheese shop.
- 7. This is Heather. She hired someone to help her build and manage her online community in Drupal.
- 8. This is Erik. He runs an e-commerce site with Drupal, writes modules when he needs them, and shares them when he can.
- 9. This is Larry. He programs custom web sites for clients… and he makes Drupal.
- 10. This is John. He doesn’t care about Drupal as long as it keeps his magazine running and his staff happy.
- 11. This is Emma. She trains people to make websites for under $1000, because she got tired of building them herself.
- 12. This is Barack. His office employs dozens of people to build and maintain a Drupal site for him.
- 15. Drupal at a Crossroads Choices that help one group can hurt the others. Our attempts to avoid this are killing us with complexity. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkphillips/2865781749
- 16. Wait. Weren’t we going to talk about products and frameworks and stuff? http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalart/2386220256
- 17. A thing that helps you do something Product http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830319467
- 18. Framework A thing that helps you make products.
- 19. Platform A thing that lets you use products
- 20. Platform A thing that lets you use products
- 21. Which one is it?
- 22. Which one is it?
- 23. Which one is it?
- 24. Which one is it?
- 27. Drupal the Product “That’s a theming issue.”
- 30. “Use hook_knife_alter().” Drupal the Framework
- 31. Fraduct! Drupal: Promwork! Mutant!
- 32. Nervous Laughter It’s okay, Drupal. We’re laughing with you, not at you.
- 33. What happened?
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- 56. Non Sequitur Interlude http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/5100023456
- 57. The tension isn’t new.
- 59. Newbies and Old timers
- 65. We have decisions to make No, seriously. We have to make some real decisions.
- 66. Stop doing stuff Call Drupal mature, fix the bugs, and go drink daiquiris on the beach.
- 67. Give ‘em the boot Narrow our focus! Anyone who doesn’t fit can use WordPress. Or Django. Maybe SharePoint.
- 68. Work harder Expend more and more energy to keep more and more people happy with one piece of software.
- 69. Just fork already Accept the fact that people with similar needs and a different vision will fork Drupal. Encourage it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theilr/2042897944
- 70. Prepare for separation Treat our framework, our site-building product, and other targeted products as a platform.
- 71. Why a platform?
- 72. Why a platform? The other choices alienate groups our community needs.
- 73. Why a platform? The other choices It lets us have alienate groups our our cake, and community needs. eat it too.
- 75. Agree on the goal Good at tactics, terrible at strategy: We must have a shared dream.
- 76. Organize the garage Separate “product pieces” from the “toolbox pieces” used to build them.
- 77. Cultivate and Grow Products encourage user focused products, separated by install profiles. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40385177@N07/5547360550
- 78. Accept bloat If we build products into Drupal, core will get larger. …Temporarily.
- 79. Separate! Spin viable products out, separate the framework. http://spawnv2.deviantart.com/art/SolidRocketBooster-Separation-12804684
- 82. Drupal is a platform. We build products on it for ourselves, for our clients, and our peers. The “framework” is our shared toolbox: we improve it so products can thrive.
- 83. Let’s treat it like one.
- 84. Let’s treat it like one.
- 85. lb.cm/pfp-whywp lb.cm/pfp-5strat lb.cm/pfp-lean lb.cm/pfp-rant lb.cm/snowman lb.cm/framework