Comments on: Discussing Content Management Systems http://johntynan.com/archives/105 A friendly journal for introspection, wonder and bliss. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: John Tynan http://johntynan.com/archives/105/comment-page-1#comment-5751 John Tynan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:18:26 +0000 http://1587241174#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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