On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Matt Farina wrote:
When you talk about the dev-linuxes, dev-kernels, etc. that would be comparable to drupal core.
Each contributed module is it's own project (like the linux kernel) but on a much smaller scale. Some of these projects are well maintained and the issues noted aren't a problem. Some of them, just like projects all over, could use some love and attention.
If you willing I imagine a lot of maintainers would welcome the help in creating better projects. I know I would.
This is very true, also note that the poor quality of so many contributed projects is a known issue, and Drupal.org has been introducing measures to deal with it - see http://drupal.org/project/usage for one. More are likely to come with the redesign too, and maybe via http://testing.drupal.org(which currently only runs core tests) in the future. Nat