I don't really know much about the workings of Drupal organisation, but maybe someone could tell me this? Do a set of criteria exist for entry to core? A recent thread, 'How everyone could win' raised the issue of Views in core. I'm sure this has been posted several times, along with several other threads about 'I'd like this in core/shouldn't core have.../I'm never stand for having such and such in core/I've got those core blues/core, she's your baby now' etc. I know criteria can seem, well, legalistic, but they do tidy up such discussions. e.g. If one of the criteria were a minimum spec machine that Drupal could run on, we could all stop talking about whether modules were too heavy for core, or justified, and just argue for raising or lowering the criteria spec. Another example, if a criteria was, 'Must not subvert or bypass existing provision' - hey, now I'm not saying that SHOULD be a criteria - then if a proposed module does such a thing, the action would be clear. Core would have to move in that direction, or the proposed code revised towards core.