Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 16 May 2006, at 03:26, James Walker wrote:
a) release-critical - A new version of Drupal cannot be released unless these are up-to-date. b) quality controlled - these will be 'core modules' in all but name. c) well maintained - HEAD, current release and previous release should all be maintained preferably by a number of maintainers.
How do we keep track of which these are? Who decides? trackback, e.g. is afaik currently unmaintained... etc.
I do, however, think that somehow giving folks an idea of which modules are worth trying before others is a good one. But this sounds like a sticky situation at best... tread lightly.
We've discussed this a dozen times -- like most of the things we're talking about nowadays. We'll use "usage patterns" to determine what the important modules are. Automatically sorting modules by popularity is something we're working on. Clearly, this will save us a lot of trouble. ;)
This should be relatively easy now that we have dedicated downloads stats or modules. Currently, the chart is as follows: tinymce-4.7.0.tar.gz 3052 image-4.7.0.tar.gz 2958 img_assist-4.7.0 1633 event-4.7.0 1575 meta-4.7.0 1572 friendselectric-4.7.0 1565 gallery-4.7.0 1480 drupal-4.6.6 1450 acidfree-4.7.0 1436 antique_modern-4.7.0 1308 niftyCorners-4.7.0 1195 de-4.7.0 1143 category-4.7.0 1101 phptemplate-cvs 1091 front-4.7.0 1048 fancy-4.7.0 1037 print-4.7.0 999 box_grey-4.7.0 972 cck-4.7.0 966 controlpanel-4.7.0 958 adsense-4.7.0 927 For comparison: drupal-4.7.0 25851 Three conclusions: 4.6 isn't all that popular anymore (or rather: people who have it won't need to download it anymore, new people chose 4.7). Niftyness/graphical stuff is high on the agenda, and: Why are there so few German developers when the de translation is so popular? Cheers, Gerhard