"This calls for the set up of an "incubator" repository, where modules<br>
can mature and stabilize before getting into the "mainstream"<br>
repository. Projects could be promoted from the incubator to the<br>
mainstream repository via a review process."<br><br>I think the problem with that is who is going to be in charge of reviewing all these modules. Has anyone looked at the issue queues on d.o? Those alone are full of unresolved issues, even in some of the most used modules and core for that matter. It's not like there is a full time staff of reviewers to look over modules and decide if they are good enough.<br>
<br>Not to mention the fact that let's be honest even the most seasoned and smart developers out there simply do not have all the knowledge about all the different modules and their functionality to make a sound decision about what is and isn't a duplicate. Are we going to expect people to set up test installs of the modules just to make sure that one is really different from the other? It's just unrealistic to expect that adding more management work to a community of volunteers is really going to solve this "problem".<br>
<br>And on that note, is it really a problem? Wordpress has 7,308 plugins, Joomla has 3651, and we've got roughly 5090(which I had to calculate using the page #'s because we unlike the aforementioned products don't highlight the # of contributions). If you've ever used either of those other two systems then you know that the problem is relegated to Drupal, they both have the same problem with low quality and duplicate contributions. Heck on WP I searched for Google Analytics and got roughly 80 results. On our site with the same search I got 14. Now either our search is way better at filtering out junk (which it is, but I doubt thats the issue), or maybe this isn't as big a problem as we think. Imean half the results for GA on d.o weren't actuall tracking mods, but just things like Ubercart or IMCE that in some way mention GA.<br>
<br>I understand that we want to keep the module area clean, and we don't want to have a bunch of junk downoads cluttering it up. I agree that adding a rrating system (Fivestar) to contrib stuff would be a great idea. But I think in the end trying to administer the submission process to death, will do just that, kill contributions. We are an open source project, that means that sometimes we are going to get some junk code and some duplicates, but that's what makes OS great, is that people can code things the way the want and then share that code with others. If we make it more difficult for people to contribute then how is that serving the Drupal project?<br>
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