[drupal-devel] merging feedback and contact
Hello, my name is Tobias and I'm new to the Drupal mailing list. I want to merge the feedback and contact module Read the my following issue: http://drupal.org/node/27633 I talked about that with kbahey, the maintainer of feedback. Here is his mail: -------------------------------- Tobias Maier, kbahey (http://drupal.org/user/4063) has sent you a message via your contact form (http://drupal.org/user/27773/contact) at drupal.org. If you don't want to receive such e-mails, you can change your settings at http://drupal.org/user/27773. Message: Hi Tobias If you take a look at contact module in 4.6, it does a lot of what feedback does. If you look at contact on Drupal.org (CVS HEAD), it has more features, such as drop down list http://drupal.org/contact I always wanted this feature (ability to route contacts to several email addresses). It uses the subject field though for this, and that is wrong. It could be "topic" or "category" or "department" So, i think that feedback will become obsolete by 4.7. So perhaps your energy can go into refining contact so it becomes a better feedback. Can you do a comparison between feedback features, and contact features, and provide what is missing so we can unify it? Once this is done, i will push with dries and the rest of developers to get the patches in before 4.7 in core drupal. what do you think? -------------------------------- What do you think about it and do you have suggestions? Yours sincerely Tobias Maier
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Tobias Maier wrote:
I want to merge the feedback and contact module
Read the my following issue: http://drupal.org/node/27633
I talked about that with kbahey, the maintainer of feedback.
The general policy for Drupal core is to keep it nice and simple. Some of the features that feedback.module offers don't IMHO match this pattern and should rather be found in a contributed module (such as feedback.module). IOW: I don't think this is a good idea for all of the features. Cheers, Gerhard
You're right, some things in Feedback are not really simple to use. But if you look at the functionality of Contact you see that it already does what Feedback does[1] but in a not as optimal as possible way. I think in every module is space for optimisation and sometimes it is well to reduce the ammount of modules available and to integrate the good things found in one of them into the other one. [1] the user gets contact served with drupal by default and tests this module, finds out it has a functionality usable for Feedback, not optimal but usable and never tries Feedback. And if he tries he will find out that it lacks about some features. Cu Tobi -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard Killesreiter The general policy for Drupal core is to keep it nice and simple. Some of the features that feedback.module offers don't IMHO match this pattern and should rather be found in a contributed module (such as feedback.module). IOW: I don't think this is a good idea for all of the features. Cheers, Gerhard
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