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‘Sir Drupal of Drupingtown, protector of all things Drupal-ly’

Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:04pm — decibel.places
 
A team member - who will go unnamed - offered to knight me ‘Sir Drupal of Drupingtown, protector of all thing [sic] Drupal-ly’ if I demonstrated a stable homepage built with panels.
 
What led up to that offer:
 
I wrote, "When I came back from being out sick, I discovered – nobody told me – that you ditched the panels homepage entirely and replaced it with a node template. I am here to bring our site into line with best practices for Drupal. I do not care if “that is how we have always done it” if there is a better “Drupal-ly” way."
 
Here are his replies:
 9/23/2011 12:47 PMRepost your work and if it renders properly – Kudos.  If not, you are making yourself look bad. Push your files to dev and test.  If everything works correctly, then I stand corrected and will go on record as Randall Goya being knighted ‘Sir Drupal of Drupingtown, protector of all thing [sic] Drupal-ly’. I have stated my position.  I have work to do.  Good day, sir.  I say Good Day.
9/21/2011 3:17 PMI am more than ready to endorse a stable version of the homepage.  Stable being the word, not ‘Drupal-ly’.  There are many different varieties of Kool-Aid not just the blue dot version.  I am sure that everyone at the Drupal meeting drink [sic] from the Drupal teat.
9/21/2011 1:53 PMI vote for simple, stable, clean.  Panels adds instability, code bloat and complexity with the code being distributed between panels, blocks, views, modules, etc…

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Comments

ah nowic in IRC

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 1:59pm — decibel.places

ah nowic in IRC - but my title "Sir Drupal" does not rely on a transient bot, it's eternally a part of the interweb

Try that seanr? again -

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 1:46pm — seanr

Try that seanr? again - someone deprogrammed the bot. :-/

Been there done that

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 1:12pm — seanr

I do use panels fairly regularly, but am not a huge fan of doing them in the node template.  The main problems I've encountered arise during major version upgrades.  I recently inherited a site where literally all of the nodes used panels, and there were dfferent variants for each content type.  Upgrading that site from 6 to 7 was an absolute bitch.  I got it done, but still... ;-)  That said, I do use features heavily.  I'm a huge fan of exportability (also happens that I know the guys who built that stuff very well).

As for being knighted, I've got one better on you: go into the #drupal chatroom on irc.freenode.net and enter "seanr?" minus the quotes. ;-)

tried seanr? at

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 1:51pm — decibel.places

tried seanr? at drupal@freenode nothing happens #FAIL perhaps you were dethroned, while I ride into the sunset and tilt at windmills

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