Following up on Leisa's very important and insightful blog post (and David Rothstein's comment therein), I think I need to clarify something. In my understanding "Talk is silver, code is gold" is a bit misunderstood. It does not mean that Drupal abhors architecture. The Drupal community and myself have spent considerable amount of time and money to meet face to face and discuss problems -- so it's not that we do not realize the need for "talk". The problem is that too many people have only generated noise on our various channels of communications online (so much that developers were pretty much forced to abandon some of these as a result) and so we have answered with this quip. If we want to move these discussions online and give them the value they deserve then we need someone to moderate them to separate useless talk from useful talk. A stellar example was the version control migration discussion. We do not need any technical changes to drupal.org (and groups.drupal.org) as that discussion proved. However, it puts up a serious community challenge because such moderation is very time consuming. Maybe those who insult us on the development list and Twitter could stand up and help?

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