Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 05:54, schreef Moshe Weitzman:
No, I think we should not talk about contrib *maintainers*, but more as a contrib door-guards. Those deciding what goes in, what not. Those keeping the heads together on what is happening, but mostly those that know who is doing what in these "official" contribs.
it is quite possible that we don't have enough qualified developers with enough time on their hands to perform code checking and functionality checking for this. If you look at the patch queue, it is quite common for *noone* to review a given patch, and we just let dries do it. i would think that Contrib code would be even less worthy of review. I'm not opposed to the 'door guard' arrangement, i am just skeptical that people will do what they promised.
I share your concern. Thats why I aimed high: 15 -20 developers on this. Note that I already addressed the issue of developers being buisy.
the beauty of a rating system is that the whole community decides merit, and we don't need dedicated roles. it is true that ratings doesn't address the full range of issues that we want to solve here though.
Again: No-one is against a rating system here, it seems. But I and Károly were bot addresssing the same point, which cannot be solved wit rating. I suggest we either split focus here, or we make this into a huge-will-never-happen-issue: We have a security issue wiith CVS commits We have a problem with developers duplicating fatr too many code and making incompatible, somteimes even plain crappy modules. We have a problem with people not being able to find modules. Again: I cant be #rsed about the third one, in fact I dont beleive that is the case at all: If you cannot even take an hour to find the correct modules for your site: then you are prolly not wrth them ;). No, serious: This /is/ another issue, that should not be integrated into this project, for then we will really never get to a conclusion. The same goes for Dries's answer about firefox's extention site. That is fine, the idea is really great, and the amount of extensions/modules are very similar. But really: we should not start including that discussion here. Regards, Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]