Re: [development] An alternative to common thinking in 5- > 6migration
And after Earl, how about a voice from the small fry? I had an idea for a module. That was half a year ago now. I knew nothing about Drupal and PHP. I don't even know about how programming culture works. After a helpful comment on dev (so how about being kind to frustrated people who stumble onto here?) I got going. My module is low profile because I want it to be. It's not ready for the big time. It is proof of concept. I try to make it clear to anyone who stumbles onto the work just what it can and can not do. This story works both ways, I guess. I'm exactly the kind of person some people would like to clear out. And other people would like to encourage, in the hope that 1 in 9 of the efforts might hit something good. Following David Meltzer yesterday, who sees a couple of basic arguments on separate threads.... I don't have time to read through all of this, There is another way of avoiding duplicates, besides review. If the cataloguing was good, you'd see the duplicates fast. And if cataloguing was good, you get minor efforts, such as my own, further down the pile. When I started my module, I searched Drupal modules and came up with 9 - 12 other modules, all in separate places. It took me hours. Not an adverse criticism folks, I'd rather contrib was big than small. And I'm another person who will not be applying myself to this right now (though there is a thought). Me, I'd rather make suggestions http://www.soundsnap.com/ Now that is a search facility I like. Rob
How about something like Tagadelic on all the words in the description of the module. That would encourage people to do better descriptions as well as being a measure of duplication. Big letters might not be good except for modules that do something good with CCK or Views which would boost their size. -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of robert crowther Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:45 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] An alternative to common thinking in 5- > 6migration And after Earl, how about a voice from the small fry? I had an idea for a module. That was half a year ago now. I knew nothing about Drupal and PHP. I don't even know about how programming culture works. After a helpful comment on dev (so how about being kind to frustrated people who stumble onto here?) I got going. My module is low profile because I want it to be. It's not ready for the big time. It is proof of concept. I try to make it clear to anyone who stumbles onto the work just what it can and can not do. This story works both ways, I guess. I'm exactly the kind of person some people would like to clear out. And other people would like to encourage, in the hope that 1 in 9 of the efforts might hit something good. Following David Meltzer yesterday, who sees a couple of basic arguments on separate threads.... I don't have time to read through all of this, There is another way of avoiding duplicates, besides review. If the cataloguing was good, you'd see the duplicates fast. And if cataloguing was good, you get minor efforts, such as my own, further down the pile. When I started my module, I searched Drupal modules and came up with 9 - 12 other modules, all in separate places. It took me hours. Not an adverse criticism folks, I'd rather contrib was big than small. And I'm another person who will not be applying myself to this right now (though there is a thought). Me, I'd rather make suggestions http://www.soundsnap.com/ Now that is a search facility I like. Rob
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