[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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