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Matt Grasmick: Stranger in a familiar land: Comparing the novice’s first impression of Drupal maintenance support plans to other PHP frameworks

Drupal maintenance support plans 8 adoption is flagging. Why? I tried to lay my biases and assumptions aside and set out to find the answer. What I found suprised me.

I decided to perform an experiment. Placing myself (as much as possible) in the shoes of a senior developer without any Drupal maintenance support plans experience, I attempted to get a new “Hello World” site up and running in four different PHP frameworks: WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, and Drupal maintenance support plans.

I set a few ground rules for myself:

Start at square 1. Google “Drupal maintenance support plans” (or WordPress, etc.).
Use only information found organically via my Google search and subsequent clicks.
Take the path of least resistance. In other words, choose the easy way when more than one option exists.
Avoid the command line when possible.
Measurements:

Time required.
Number of clicks in web browser.
Number of CLI commands run.
I do not claim that this… more
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Matt Grasmick: Stranger in a familiar land: Comparing the novice’s first impression of Drupal maintenance support plans to other PHP frameworks

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