Drupal's Golden Handcuffs

Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by stevepurkiss on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @06:33PM (#4604747)

Interesting article, perhaps if a few of those "I'm bored"s were changed to "I'm helping make Drupal suck less by writing some documentation" or "I'm learning cool new stuff cos Drupal does the generic boring stuff for me" the author would have a more fulfilling life.

If everyone blows a little more energy back into the Drupal project, it'll suck a lot less ;)

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Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by jackbravo on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:48PM (#4605025)

I agree 100%. That makes it a lot less boring because you feel you are doing something useful not only for yourself.

That's also why Drupal has huge amounts of contributed modules and developers. Lots of people who do just that. Drupal is the Linux of the CMSs.

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Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by mcrittenden on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:53PM (#4605048)

It depends on your work environment. If your boss asks for 40 billable hours a week and you have a family to keep you busy in off hours then there's not much time for writing docs or contributing modules.

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Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by jackbravo on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @08:56PM (#4605237)

Is the same problem that every person working with free software projects faces. Can I contribute more if I'm not being paid to do it?

In the long run you can expect those extra hours contributing to the project to really pay off, because you gain a deeper understanding of where things go, because you meet people that can help you, because people see your contributions and you make connections and a lot of other goodies.

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Re:Drupal's Golden Handcuffs by Angelo8000 on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @06:43PM (#4604786)

I agree - Perhaps some more active contribution rather than just the usual "I'm bored", etc. Why not be more proactive. Good point.

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