lullabot

Any interested Drupalologist would do well to go read Jeff Robbins' take on how to improve Drupal. Okay, so it's a bit utopian — I think he's only half-kidding when he talks about Drupal "saving the world." But the guys at Lullabot know Drupal's strengths and weaknesses as well or better than anyone else.

I was particularly interested by the "What If..." section of the post. He phrases it a bit more politely, but Jeff's right: drupal.org and api.drupal.org are downright embarrassing when compared to other CMSes' sites. Providing the the code that comprises a function is not the same thing as documenting that function. And providing a boring, poorly-organized product site is no way to win converts.

For my own, selfish part, I'd just like to see some stability in the APIs. 4.7's Forms API changed everything; 5 changed much of it again. I've become a grudging convert to using CCK and Views for nearly everything — there are very good reasons for that design decision, made by developers smarter than I — but there's no question in my mind that it's made development slower. I'd like to see these projects remain in a stable place for a while, and try to consolidate rather than continuing to reinvent the wheel — the fact that CCK has its own pidgin DDL is something no one should be happy about.