Submitted by snorkers (not verified) on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 09:15.
If online reference was really that great, then the burgeoning market for reference/tutorial books would die. In a way, the books that have appeared in the past year have allowed me to learn far more about overall Drupal concepts, than stumbling through the online resources. And this separates Drupal from many other OS projects, especially as the core codebase is remaining pretty stable for almost 2 years. I'd also like to think that some of the experienced Drupal developers are actually getting financial payback for all work they do, by publishing books.
I've been working in Drupal for about 9 months now, and still feel reluctant to edit any online documents partly through lack of confidence, and also because I feel a little lost once in the documentation world (is there duplication? is there a great article already in the discussion forums? etc). Apart from my first ever D6 install, I don't think I've since navigated through the docs from the d.o homepage.
Slash and burn? Maybe a little too drastic - the current documentation is certainly not worthless. After all, we can still find what we want (eventually) by persistence with Google.
If online reference was really that great, then the burgeoning market for reference/tutorial books would die. In a way, the books that have appeared in the past year have allowed me to learn far more about overall Drupal concepts, than stumbling through the online resources. And this separates Drupal from many other OS projects, especially as the core codebase is remaining pretty stable for almost 2 years. I'd also like to think that some of the experienced Drupal developers are actually getting financial payback for all work they do, by publishing books.
I've been working in Drupal for about 9 months now, and still feel reluctant to edit any online documents partly through lack of confidence, and also because I feel a little lost once in the documentation world (is there duplication? is there a great article already in the discussion forums? etc). Apart from my first ever D6 install, I don't think I've since navigated through the docs from the d.o homepage.
Slash and burn? Maybe a little too drastic - the current documentation is certainly not worthless. After all, we can still find what we want (eventually) by persistence with Google.