On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:25:40 -0300, "Greg Knaddison - GVS" <Greg@GrowingVentureSolutions.com> wrote:

Hi,

"Modules that duplicate functionality available from an existing module are damaging to the Drupal project."

Please support or refute that statement and propose strategies for managing CVS applications and/or projects on Drupal.org in a way that will best help the Drupal project.

I'm using "Drupal project" in a very loose sense so you should infer that it includes lots of groups of people like new users, site builders, contributors, drupal.org admins, the security team, etc.

Thanks, Greg

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. Solutions: I really need to get back to this issue at some point: http://drupal.org/node/168819 If someone else wants to take it over, please do. A block like this needs to be very prominent on the site (or one of the sites after the redesign). --Larry Garfield