[development] Documenting contribs

Earl Miles merlin at logrus.com
Wed Oct 25 21:12:25 UTC 2006


James Walker wrote:
>> i think it is within the spirit for site maintainers to improve 
>> project descriptions as they see fit, and without prior approval from 
>> module maintainers. an after the fact email like: 'i fixed your stink' 
>> is sufficient. maintainer could always edit again if needed.
> 
> 
> +1. Please :)
> 
>> As an aside (i.e. lets not sidetrack this thread), one of the original 
>> visions of the new .info files is that their names and descriptions 
>> will be used by drupal.org project module. Thats one of the reasons we 
>> chose plain text .ini instead of PHP. I like reuse of .info files 
>> because it centralizes project metadata. We probably need some more 
>> metadata fields.
> 
> and also +1

This is fine, but the last time I had someone 'correct' something for 
me, they didn't understand what I was doing and got it wrong. So there's 
something to be said for at least acknowledging the module maintainer here.





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