[development] Documenting contribs

[Michelle Cox]

I recently looked through the entire list of contrib modules and there's 
some cleanup needed.

* Shorter teasers so the download page isn't so huge
* Some modules still need tagging
* Modules that are similar could use "See also's"
* Also, there are a lot of modules that aren't documented in the handbook

A thread on the support list went a bit off topic and I asked there what 
module maintainers think of having someone changing their project pages. I 
got one response that the maintainer would like to be notified first. I 
decided to put this on the dev list and start a new topic to get more 
thoughts on this. If you maintain modules and have a bit of time (yeah, 
right, eh? ;) could you take a look at your modules and see if the project 
pages could use a little work? If you don't have the time, do you object to 
someone else doing it? I'm willing to email maintainers before touching 
their pages if that's what's wanted.

I also could use some help with this project. I've been saying I'm going to 
do it for over a week and haven't done it. Good intentions and all that... 
:) If someone wants to help, we could each tackle a part of the alphabet and 
then it wouldn't be such a daunting task.  I'm also looking for any 
review/comparisons between modules to add to the handbook. If you've had to 
decide between similar modules and are able to write up your decision making 
progress, let me know.

Thanks,

Michelle

PS: Do you think this should be crossposted to the doc list? It is 
doc-oriented, but I needed to put it where maintainers would see it. I don't 
like crossposting unless people think it's warranted.