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To be honest, I think this is an absolutely terrible idea. It's<br>
just not scalable. We've got thousands of contributed modules and<br>
themes, which makes for millions of lines of code. To ask that we<br>
can have a core team of developers managing contrib patches,<br>
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Quite frankly that's not what i'm proposing, out of the reasons you<br>
just stated.<br>
BTW although according to<br>
wget -qO - <a href="http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/%7Chtml2text" target="_blank">http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/|html2text</a> -width 130 -nobs|'grep' "\-6.x\-"|sed 's/\[\[ \]\]//;s/-6.*//'|sort -u|wc -l<br>
there currently are 2227 D6 contrib projects (compared to 2827 for D5) - do you really think all of those provide a useful benefit to the community? how many of those are deprecated, unmaintained or plain useless? Even then we can prevent that from happening on D7 *without* destroying what's already there. D6 will live on for perhaps up to a decade anyways... There are still D4 sites out there!<div class="im">
</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes, your observation is correct, but ... so what?<br><br>We've always had stuff that falls off the face of earth. So what? The caravan continues on ...<br><br>The very first module I contributed (feedback) illustrates a point: It was started in 2002 by someone called "barry". I had it working I took it over in 2004 with totally new code for Drupal 4.5. Then "fago" overhauled it a lot in 2006. Over time, the contact module in core came along, and I stopped using feedback. Then in 2008 "sun" took it over and repurposed it with new code.<br>
<br>The "too many modules in contrib syndrome" can be taken as confusing, excessive, ...etc. but can also be taken as a sign of a healthy and vibrant community. So what if we have a few extra gigabytes of code? So what if they become unmaintained? <br>
<br>If we raise the barrier or block new entries we will be shutting ourselves off from being the platform for the new chx or the new merlinofchaos.<br><br>It does not matter ... if it is the wild wild west, then let it be. It is a small price to pay for innovation and the power of the masses.<br>
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