[development] 120 Projects pages awaiting moderation

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:29 -0800, Kieran Lal wrote:
> 
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Darrel O'Pry wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:28 -0800, Kieran Lal wrote:
> > > On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 02 Feb 2006, at 18:34, Kieran Lal wrote:
> > > > > Hi, as part of the effort to categorize projects I have
> > > > > reviewed  
> > > > > the list of projects awaiting moderation.  I am not sure where
> > > > > to  
> > > > > discuss this.  By my count it is almost 120 projects.  Some of
> > > > > the  
> > > > > project pages go back to 2004.  There are around 60 site  
> > > > > maintainers for Drupal.org.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Are there guidelines for approving Project pages, is there a  
> > > > > certain quality that we are looking for?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I assume most of the 60 site moderators are on this list so
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Normally projects are automatically approved if the
> > > > corresponding  
> > > > tarball can be found (i.e. the code should be in CVS).
> > > > Projects  
> > > > that are not approved are likely to be incomplete or
> > > > non-existing.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Should we contact the project author's or just delete the
> > > projects?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Kieran
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > To be fair I'd contact the author.... Maybe we can have a special
> > 'orphaned' project owner.... kind of like debian's orphaned
> > packages...
> > 
> > 
> > That way people can stop maintaining modules they don't use, but
> > keep
> > them available to the community at large. And someone else can pick
> > up
> > maintainership  if they desire.
> > 
> > 
> Could someone whip up some PHP for Drupal.org to show unpublished
> project pages?  Is that what we want?
> 
> 
> Warren is going to start working on the most recent projects to be
> published.
> 
> 
> I'll start contacting authors from the back of the list.
> 
> 
> Kieran
> 

I'm not a drupal.org administrator... But I would be willing to help in
any way I can.