Comments on: Discussing Content Management Systems http://johntynan.com/archives/105 My Name is John Tynan and I am a poet. I live in Tempe, Arizona with my beautiful wife and muse. I have a hammock, a home theater, a python code book, a piano and a bicycle. Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Tynan http://johntynan.com/archives/105#comment-5751 John Tynan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:18:26 +0000 http://johntynan.com/archives/105#comment-5751 In response to a question from Bill Swersey that I received via Facebook asking what Matt McDonald meant about Drupal being "unmaintainable." Here is my reply: Matt was saying that drupal is good for "one off' sites. The idea of having a development site, a staging site, and a production site is not something that drupal does well (in his opinion)... this forced him to test out things on a live site that he was most uncomfortable doing. Additionally, being in a position to have to make changes to drupal's core programming prevented them from having a clear upgrade path. In response to a question from Bill Swersey that I received via Facebook asking what Matt McDonald meant about Drupal being “unmaintainable.” Here is my reply:

Matt was saying that drupal is good for “one off’ sites. The idea of having a development site, a staging site, and a production site is not something that drupal does well (in his opinion)… this forced him to test out things on a live site that he was most uncomfortable doing. Additionally, being in a position to have to make changes to drupal’s core programming prevented them from having a clear upgrade path.

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