[development] Time to remove poll module from core

[Steven Peck]

Why don't you start submitting patches for it and later apply to become
poll module maintainer.
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/MAINTAINERS.txt?view=markup

In general I believe Dries would rather find module owners than list
himself. :)

-sp 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Derek Wright
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:20 PM
> To: development at drupal.org; rob at robshouse.net
> Subject: Re: [development] Time to remove poll module from core
> 
> 
> On May 1, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Robert Douglass wrote:
> 
> > http://drupal.org/node/61285
> >
> > Its presence in core is holding up its own development.
> 
> i agree with the thrust of this discussion (and the 
> spin-offs) about slimming down core, removing not-so-core 
> modules from core, etc.
> 
> however, back to the original discussion at hand: removing 
> poll -- does that mean i shouldn't bother working on 
> http://drupal.org/node/51561 at all?  i'd like to see a lot 
> of improvements in poll, and would be willing to help work on 
> them, but i don't want to waste effort if it's all going to 
> be re-done, etc.
> 
> should we make a group on groups.drupal.org for "poll 
> developers"?  i wonder how many of the DEP-related activities 
> (e.g. all the almost-effort going into event, event 
> management, etc) should be moved to a group there, too.  i 
> just created my account on groups.drupal.org, so i haven't 
> checked it out yet in detail, but should this be the wave of 
> the future for collaborative development, co-maintainers, etc?
> 
> thanks,
> -derek (dww)
> 
> 
>