On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:25:36 -0500 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
Support: Time spend "reinventing the wheel" (duplicating modules) is time not spent making the wheels we have better. That results in 2-3-4 mediocre modules with one single point of failure instead of one good module with multiple possible maintainers. That makes it more likely that a user will find a module inadequate, or that it will become abandoned leaving the user high and dry. That's damaging both to Drupal-based sites and to Drupal's reputation.
It makes modules much harder to find/chose.
Solutions: I really need to get back to this issue at some point:
yup... could we copy debian package tags or something similar to add meta info/keywords to module packages (.info)? Plus sometimes it is very hard to understand what the module do from what you can find in the module page. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it