Before one tries to solve a problem, it would be interesting to prove
or provide evidence that it exists. As a module maintainer, I think
REALLY HARD before considering creating a new module on CVS, because
I know what maintaining a module entails, and I've already worked
hard to try and get others involved in my own issue queue. I lean
towards looking for duplicate modules cause I want to pair up with
people to lessen my own workload. If I post a module, I've already
tried to find another module that does something similar, and when
possible have tried to float patches against that module to get it to
do what I want it to do. Because I KNOW my time is limited. I don't
think that I'm alone here.
Anecdotes don't count here. If we've got 5000+ modules, how many of
these are duplicates posted by maintainers of other modules. My bet
is the number is really low, and not worth investing a ton of time in.
Show me da numbers.... :)
On Nov 18, 2009, at 4:08 AM, Ashraf Amayreh wrote:
I suddenly got this (perhaps silly) idea of only allowing a CVS
owner to create one project and require approval by posting to the
DEV list when wishing to create another project rather than making
this open for all CVS owners. This would definitely help with the
repetition problem and module boom.
Posting to the DEV list should at least give other module
developers and people interested the opportunity to object to,
agree or suggest alternatives to the proposed module rather than
suddenly finding a useless/repetitive module springing up here and
there because the developer didn't know another one existed.
Suggestions? Flames? Thoughts?
AA
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Jeff Greenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dave Reid wrote:
Again, how can one person know that one line is useful to the
entire community if other people don't speak up about it? It
requires the community to be involved in the process and not
reacting to just when there are problems.
Right, then if one person isn't qualified to know whether it would
be useful to the community, let the community decide by downloading
it or not.
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Ashraf Amayreh
http://aamayreh.org
