I absolutely love Damien's proposal for an incubator repository! And an incubator section on the modules page, or an incubator_modules section, or something of the type.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Damien Tournoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damz@prealable.org">damz@prealable.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Moshe Weitzman <<a href="mailto:weitzman@tejasa.com">weitzman@tejasa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Perhaps we should ask them to check a checkbox "I agree to maintain this module".<br>
>><br>
>> As nice as it may be, this is simply unrealistic.<br>
><br>
> I think it is realistic and reasonable and prudent. IMO,<br>
> <a href="http://cvs.drupal.org" target="_blank">cvs.drupal.org</a> is not a place for code that you want to share briefly<br>
> and forget about. or at least, lets segregate that out to something<br>
> other than contrib/modules.<br>
<br>
</div>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>
After all, we have an handful of modules that are very heavily used<br>
and can be considered as critical for the community, and a "long tail"<br>
of more targeted, special-cased modules that forms the richness of the<br>
community, but that don't have the same quality / support<br>
requirements.<br>
<br>
Between Views (the most used contributed module) and Admin Role (#100<br>
contributed module), there is a 1/20 usage ratio. I think it would<br>
make sense that those "high profile" modules (and other modules, the<br>
usage is just a data point here, there are obviously other things to<br>
consider) comply with higher standards, and be identified as such.<br>
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Damien Tournoud<br>
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