[development] Re: [drupal-devel] new CVS accounts

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Jonathan Kamens wrote:

>Kobus Myburgh writes:
> > > However, we have a third custom module which I'm not sure yet whether
> > > I'm going to try to contribute to the community.  It's called
> > > "school_directory", and it provides a browseable, searchable directory
> > > of a school's parents, students and staff, including photos for
> > > parents and staff.  I'm not sure it's in a contributable state because
> > 
> > This would be very useful to me :-) Even in it's "rough around the
> > edges" state. I am maintaining 2 schools' sites and at the moment
> > we use the plain ole members module to give us some idea of the
> > users on the site. I would love to see this!
>
>I'm happy to share the code; I just need to figure out the appropriate
>way to do that.  This raises in my mind a question that can probably
>be answered by the people on this list.... In general, how "solid"
>should a contributed module be before it's put in the repository and
>advertised?
>  
>

It shouldn't have parse errors... ;)

You can indicate on the project page that the module might be only alpha 
or beta quality. In this case it is a good idea to not branch it for the 
current stable branch (DRUPAL-4-6 nowadays) even if it is supposed to 
work with it.

You should probably not commit modules that you don't have any intention 
on making it usable. Just hoping for patches usually won't help.

Cheers,
    Gerhard