Steven Peck <sepeck <at> gmail.com> writes: I don't have the time or inclination anymore.
Something like this is really only solved by a human filter. Anything that involves a static list being checked has consistently failed in the past.
-sp
About the only real solution is to have several people who are familiar with the existing modules review the ideas and point to existing modules. Of course this would really have to be a group of people that aren't doing stuff now. They would have to build the proceedures and habits into the community to make it really last beyond this current surge of interest.
-s
I have a pretty good idea of existing modules as they stand now, not all, but a fair proportion, and would be interested in helping with this. When I read the first e-mail in this thread I immediately thought of a "duplicated module hall of shame" (possibly with a nicer title) wiki in the contributed module status group or similar, to serve as a reference point for people to avoid yet another duplicate. I can think of at least 3 candidate sets of module for this already. catch