Quoting eric Farris <eafarris@gmail.com>:

On 12/27/06, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

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Speaking of adding new modules, is there a subscription or list that announces the addition of new modules?

Thanks to taxonomy, there's a feed: http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0/feed

Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't like to display RSS+XML without a popup dialogue asking what to do with it. Didn't I find an issue about this? Thanks for the information though. Yes, I know I can install a feed reader. Yes, I know I can manipulate Mozilla configuration. So is every module committed to CVS listed by this taxonomy term node? Earnie

Quoting Derek Wright <drupal@dwwright.net>:

On Dec 27, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:

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1) I would like to see a Subscribe button on a particular issue so that I can easily subscribe to an issue.

http://drupal.org/node/34496 "Allow subscription to individual project issues"

Thanks, Derek. I'm now subscribed to that issue which is more than a year old with little action. The project doesn't have a 5.0 Version tag yet either but that is a different issue. Earnie

Quoting Derek Wright <drupal@dwwright.net>:

On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:

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I'm now subscribed to that issue which is more than a year old with little action.

you're free to provide a patch. meanwhile, i've been just a little bit busy[1].

I might, you never know.

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The project doesn't have a 5.0 Version tag yet either but that is a different issue.

a different issue indeed. if you had been reading the front page of drupal.org you might have noticed:

http://drupal.org/node/105004 "5.0 release candidate now running on scratch.drupal.org"

I noticed, I've been there.

or, gee, maybe you were reading this very list, and saw my plea for people to review/test the 5.0 port:

http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-12/msg00298.html

where i specifically mention:

http://drupal.org/node/105016 "Testing the 5.0 port of the release system on scratch.drupal.org"

I haven't had the time to CO from the scratch CVS yet.

i'm not going to create the DRUPAL-5 branch until the code is stable. we don't know if the code isn't stable unless people test it.

*sigh*

-derek

p.s. hint for not pissing off hard-working (almost entirely volunteer) developers: do a little research before you start complaining about all the things we're supposedly not doing right.

Wasn't meaning it as a complaint just mentioning an observation. Sorry for scratching at a wound.

p.p.s. another hint: before posting random wish-list items to the devel list, search the issue queues and make sure you're not just duplicating existing requests. instead of making developers go around and find all the issues for you, you could do that legwork yourself, to save our time to actually make progress on things instead of fending off a constant stream of duplicate requests.

I'll keep it in mind and often do research first. However, there is a hell of a lot of information to search through and if someone like Derek Wright knew that the request existed why not ask instead of wasting my own time weeding through irrelavant information?

[1] oh, for example:

http://drupal.org/node/94000 porting project* to 5.x http://drupal.org/user/46549/track http://drupal.org/project/issues? states=1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16&participated=46549 ...

We are all busy. I, like you, am an open source hobbyist and volunteer. I have contributed to the Drupal project even though I am new. Earnie

Quoting Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com>:

Earnie Boyd wrote:

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I'll keep it in mind and often do research first. However, there is a hell of a lot of information to search through and if someone like Derek Wright knew that the request existed why not ask instead of wasting my own time weeding through irrelavant information?

i.e, waste our time not yours. Thanks. You fit right in here.

I'm glad you think so.

Well, at least I know your sense of value.

And I'm coming to get a sense of the community spirit as well. At least I now know where to look and am tracking the project and issues development issue tracker. If it was such a waste of time why did more than one person respond, including one off list? Now, that is completely a satirical question, please don't waste your time responding to it. We all have faults please forgive mine. Drupal is a great piece of work, thanks to those who take their time to waste it answering idiot questions and thanks to those who continue to process it to greater value. I hope to be one of those people someday soon. Earnie