On 9-Mar-09, at 2:15 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:
Would it really hurt the process of evolution and innovation in Drupal when a new project ("request") would go into a "new projects queue" first, where all community members could do a quick review and optionally point to a possible existing project that could benefit from additional man- power, features, and stuff?
I think this is a good idea. I was having this conversation with some at DC; we all noted that for our very first contribution, we did a great deal of thinking, planning, and so on, but for subsequent modules they tend to go in without as much attention. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's written code only to discover after that someone else did it under a different name. No one I think really likes duplication without reason. Long term, I think the solution is for search on d.o to continue to improve so that it is easy to tell within a few searches if another module exists. Until then, a "does this exist" queue or mailing list could serve quite nicely. --Andrew