Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.
Replying to @tante@tldr.nettime.org
🗣THANK YOU!
Drupal should have stopped at 7… maybe 9 and then forked to whatever it is now. they're two completely different products and i’ve resented it ever since. Backdrop (the fork from D7-8) is great, but it doesn't get the money and support Drupal gets.
Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva
> Backdrop (the fork from D7-8) is great, but it doesn't get the money and support Drupal gets
That has to do with the reason for the split. Drupal began as a CMS for small community sites (activists used it a lot in the 2000s). By the time of D7, it was being used in giant instances like streaming video sites for TV stations, who could pay big bucks to get their needs met. BackDrop forked to optimise for the original set of deployers who can't donate much.
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Replying to @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
I agree with @blogdiva that there ought to have been an "enterprise" grade fork under a new name, and earlier than 7 too. Because what BackDrop is, is what Drupal originally was, so that line of development deserved the legacy name.
But the only practical difference would be in the naming. All the big bucks would have left Drupal for the enterprise fork, and it would be underfunded now just like BackDrop is.
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Replying to @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
#TIL that BackDrop CMS (a fork of Durupal 7) is working on an ActivityPub plugin;
https://backdropcms.org/project/backdrop_federation
The latest version is in alpha, released in March this year. If you can help the developers to test or improve it, please do!
#BackDrop #ActivityPub #FediDevs
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