I'm not sure why folks in the #Drupal community are confused about how regular people and small organizations are finding the product hard to use after years and years and years of Dries pushing the project to be "enterprise-level".
Maybe instead of #StarShot, we should call it #DrupalTimeMachine where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.
Especially the bit where they were telling people to move simple D7 sites to something else instead of migrating to D8+. This seems to be a complete 180 from that.
@DaleTrexel @mikemccaffrey except that neither the Drupal project lead nor any of the Drupal maintainers nor the Drupal association have ever given such recommendation. Or have they? What I can remember they did the opposite by helping to setup a network of partners who help with the D7 migration to modern Drupal.
What you're saying above came from community members expressing their own opinion, which is perfectly OK. But I always disagreed with that approach.
@jurgenhaas@mikemccaffrey I'm sorry I don't have the source bookmarked and indexed for easy retrieval, but I distinctly remember communication about upgrading from Drupal 7 that suggested moving to something other than Drupal for simple sites.
It was because it was "official" that it was memorable.
It was around the same time as the "Drupal is for ambitious websites" slogan, which further reinforced that Drupal isn't for simple sites.
@DaleTrexel@mikemccaffrey I do remember that as well, but such that it was a community initiative who did that, not one of they individuals or bodies mentioned above.
@mikemccaffrey
As I'm unable to change the past, I've decided to enjoy the presence and participate in the future. Being edited about the positive energy in Portland. This community is unbeatable!
Add comment