On 10/23/2006 9:16:20 AM, inkfree press (inkfree@gmail.com) wrote:
If it is a search issue, then perhaps the infrastructure folks could take that under advisement and examine alternate search methods ('see also', cross-listed, 'related to', etc.) That's a chore, of course, but may well be worth it to prevent the task clutter which seems to afflict the contributed modules listings.
Some modules do list related modules. Getting it on all modules would take either all maintainers doing it or someone volunteering to go through them all. I had plans on going through quite a few of them in the process of building my current site, but I keep getting distracted. If you'd like to help, you can go through the modules and email me the ones you find that are related or have duplicated functionality and I can add "see alsos" where appropriate, providing that won't piss off the maintainers.
Any maintainers want to weigh in on this? Would you object to having a note added to your descriptions to help people decide between modules?
Michelle
On Monday 23 October 2006 09:41, Michelle Cox wrote:
Any maintainers want to weigh in on this? Would you object to having a note added to your descriptions to help people decide between modules?
Michelle
I have two modules to my name, both of which already have contextual links to other related modules, I believe. (That is, the name of the module links to the module's project page.) I'd be fine with the docs folks adding more of those if I forgot any, though, as long as they drop me an email about it so that I'm not caught by surprise. :-)
"Larry Garfield" wrote:
I'd be fine with the docs folks adding more of those if I forgot any, though, as long as they drop me an email about it so that I'm not caught by surprise.
How could you be caught by surprise by a link to a URL being inserted (unless it were to _your_ site, of course.)
I don't understand the caveat ("as long as they...") you've added. Why?
Just curious.
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:12, inkfree press wrote:
"Larry Garfield" wrote:
I'd be fine with the docs folks adding more of those if I forgot any, though, as long as they drop me an email about it so that I'm not caught by surprise.
How could you be caught by surprise by a link to a URL being inserted (unless it were to _your_ site, of course.)
I don't understand the caveat ("as long as they...") you've added. Why?
Just curious.
If it' a module/theme I'm maintaining, I like to know what the "official" description of it reads. 99% of the time that's because I wrote it. If someone from the docs team feels that it could be improved (grammar correction, adding a link, etc.), I'm fine with that as long as I know about it. Larger changes (changing the description of functionality, for instance) I'd prefer to know about before hand, since as maintainer that is more my responsibility to handle. I am, of course, always open to suggestions in that vein.
It's not really a power thing; it's more an accountability thing.