On 09 Aug 2007, at 07:54, Neil Drumm wrote:
Personally, I don't think duplicated modules are that big of a problem and it is certainly something we should _not_ punish people for. I'm a firm believer of the fact that "deliberate duplication" is a good. "Unfortunate duplication", i.e. duplication as the result of the fact that the author didn't know an almost identical module already existed, is something we have to reduce though.
Is the problem not looking, or looking and not finding? I doubt we can make a lot of progress telling people to look if they are not motivated to do it. Improving module findability would be a bigger help. The module creators who are motivated would have an easier job. And the much larger group of module users would be able to find modules easier.
I agree. A lot of these groups, like the contributed-module-ideas group (to some extend), are quick ugly hacks to work around an underlying problem. I'd prefer to see people spend their time on improving the underlying problem (i.e. module findability). It keeps amazing me why people aren't a little bit more critic towards these kind of hacks. I guess other people will fix the module findability problem then ... -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/