<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 28-Jul-06, at 11:28 AM, Jeff Eaton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="078562318-28072006"><FONT face="Verdana" size="2">Possibly; I would be perfectly happy to see the incomplete administration screen just go away and call the module 'released'. It's a perfectly viable module and API package without that one screen, and just as stable as image.module, say. Branching is more of an issue.<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Branch the sucka! Rip out admin and release it as a feature upgrade!</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="078562318-28072006"><FONT face="Verdana" size="2">SysCrusher has continued to work on it, commit patches, and participate in issue queues over the past several weeks so I think it's more a question of calling the module 'done' and 'ready,' which it wasn't before 4.7 shipped.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OK, good to know...like I said, just going by external signs -- issues queue involvement etc. obviously means it's being handled.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And, of course some "how tos" on using it for common scenarios (links directory, etc.) would be good (as MichelleC requested as well in a msg that just came in). It's good to recruit early users to help with this stuff...assign them a task in the issue tracker, make them feel useful!</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="078562318-28072006"><FONT face="Verdana" size="2">I suppose it's just frustrating to see people look at an existing module that does 95% of what's needed, and decide to reimplement from scratch to get the extra 5%. There are more and more cases of it every day, it seems. Sometimes it's unavoidable but often it's a real waste.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>You bet.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- Boris</DIV></BODY></HTML>