I have offered to help on the Import / Export API. I will be using it extensively on several projects, have written scripts to get around its shortcomings, etc. I am currently analyzing it from a data and control flow point of view. I have ample software engineering, xml, etc., knowledge, but I am not yet an expert in Drupal, for which reason it would be foolhardy for me to offer to maintain it on my own. Whoever does take the responsibility, however, can count on my active assistance, and in time, I could maintain it when my Drupal knowledge deepens with experience and practice. Whoever that lucky person is, please get in touch with me. Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar On 1/21/07, Jeremy Epstein <jazepstein@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am currently the primary (and the only) CVS maintainer of 4 contrib modules.
3. Import / Export API <http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi>
Status: 4.7 version only, is reasonably stable, and has some outstanding bugs.
Description: this was my Summer of Code 2006 project. It's a massive module, and one that I managed to bring up to a stable and usable (and quite well-documented) level during SoC, but that I certainly wouldn't consider finished by any means. Needs a lot of TLC, and is seeking a maintainer who is prepared to give it all their love. In particular, needs to be upgraded to Drupal 5, needs serious UI improvement (the UI needs a lot more development, and ideally needs to be moved to a separate project), needs VERY serious performance improvement (currently the memory overhead makes dealing with large datasets quite hard - probably the underlying architecture needs serious improvement in order to fix this), and needs a number of new features (e.g. validation and error-reporting of import data, proper processing callbacks to handle special operations for various entities, etc). The amount of code is large, and the complexity is high. But it's all quite high-quality, and also quite well-documented, so this should make the module easier to grok.
Many thanks,
Jeremy Epstein - GreenAsh www.greenash.net.au