[support] Evaluating modules

[Bèr Kessels]

Hello,

I don't think this is a good idea. You should not think "Drupal.org does a
bad job at organizing the info" but rhater ask yourself "why does the
Drupal comm. not manage to get the module info organized". The answer, is
amoungst others that contribs are highly dynamic. Each new release causes
earthshattering shifts in the contribs which become popular used and which
die. Even troughout a release cycle you see this.

Continuïty is not something found in most of the contribs. This, however
is a totally different discussion not to be confused with this thread :).

The forums is really the place where you want to be. Drupal is before all,
a community. Drupal is not a reference. Nor a book. It is not an
ecyclopeadia, and also not a recipe book.

You should rather learn to use that community to get to your information.
In practice this means that you must lie around for weeks, if not longer
and listen. Ask a question here and there, play with some of hte info you
get, learn from that, and re-use that for more information.

This, is my experience, works far better then hoping for some magical
gnome to pop up and write down exactly, and only the specific parts, for
your specific project. That won't happen. But the collaborative knowledge
is out there: Its up to you to shape that knowledge into the information
you need for your project. And yes, that requires *a big* lot of time.

Bèr


On Thu, October 11, 2007 9:47 am, Edward  Peters said:
> I am embarking on a major project for a global NGO (www.iofc.org),
> migrating
> their websites from a custom-built CMS into Drupal. Our preparations
> involve
> assessing which modules fit our myriad of needs best. Does anyone know of
> a
> website which specialises in listing and evaluating Drupal modules
> (drupal.org doesn't do this very intuitively, even if a lot of info is
> there
> somewhere)?
>
>
>
> I even wondered about setting up a special website for this purpose which
> could become a useful resource for those hunting for functionality. Would
> anyone be interested in such a thing? Using taxonomy we could make it easy
> to find what one wants.
>
>
>
> Edward Peters
>
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