<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I tried to post this into the thread earlier, but I may have been blanked due to using a different email (? I only use the digest)<div>Anyway ...</div><div>Re Suns suggestion earlier about a review period - I proposed the same a long while ago.</div><div>[A suggestion for reducing new-duplicated modules : require RFC or statement of intent posting]</div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/node/316973">http://drupal.org/node/316973</a></div><div><br></div><div>PLEASE Look at that thread and you will see many others also against *enforcement* ( = manpower & acrimony) but for a generally useful community-based process. Note, not a "core developer" gatekeeper team, but better visibility and feedback loop to resolve dupes.</div><div>It got to the 'nice idea' stage, but no further.</div><div><br></div><div>Everyone is welcome to review duplicates over in the [Duplicated Modules hall of shame] </div><div><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/duplicated-modules-hall-shame">http://groups.drupal.org/duplicated-modules-hall-shame</a></div><div>where these issues are acknowleged, and hopefully being worked towards. Please see the wording of the statement of intent over there.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to keep out of this debate, which is not succeeding in convincing either Marcel or everyone else, but :</div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>Well it's not that my proposal is totally unrealistic. Only because no<br>one is supporting it does it become so. Would Dries or Angela have<br>proposed it, everybody and his dog would be up in flames of enthusiasm<br>and surely consider it the right way to go.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>It could be that everyone disagrees with it because they think it's a bad idea.</div><div><br></div><div><div>If one person says doing something is a stupid idea, they may just be being mean or not have had their coffee yet.</div><div><br></div><div>If three random people say it's a stupid idea, maybe they're ganging up on you. (you could consider what seemed to prompt that)</div><div><br></div><div>If half a dozen long-time developers, each who have seen this or similar suggestions several times before, try to explain <b>at length</b> exactly why a certain approach isn't such a practical idea, consider the possibility that they may know what they are talking about.</div><div><br></div></div><div>If the whole world disagrees with you, you may be the messiah, but you're probably just wrong about this one thing.</div><div><br></div><div>.dan.</div></body></html>