Drupal - a developers' CMS only?
gargsuchi
In this session, I plan to talk about how the transition of Drupal from D7 to D8 has inadvertently made Drupal and developers only CMS.
In my opinion, in order for increased adoption, a CMS needs to be as user-friendly as possible. And this is where we are going in reverse for Drupal.
- Evaluation of Drupal is still not easy.
- Dries's blog (https://dri.es/we-made-drupal-a-lot-easier-to-evaluate) mentions D8.6 is now easier to evaluate - but those improvements have been made for local setups. Not for a non-developer trying to get a Drupal site up and running.
- A non-developer persona still needs to go through hosting providers to evaluate Drupal. Which is really counter-intuitive.
- There is no single (Drupal community supported) hosting provider.
- Services like https://simplytest.me are too short-lived.
Is that the path we want to take for Drupal's future
- What can be done?
- We should make a site comparable to wordpress.com - which allows Drupal8 evaluations using only UI.
- Create UI tools - for module management. Just `composer` based process is too restrictive for non-developers..