[development] duplication and input format modules

[Chris Kennedy]

What about this: before you make a new module, check if it already
exists. If true, abort.

Steven Peck wrote (8/7/2007 7:39 PM):
> Here's the problem.
>
> We are creating yet another 'voluntary' procedure that new people will
> not know about, old time contributors who aren't paying attention to
> list right now won't know about and I suspect will be abandoned and
> unmaintained like many similar such initiatives in the past.
>
> About the only real solution is to have several people who are
> familiar with the existing modules review the ideas and point to
> existing modules.  Of course this would really have to be a group of
> people that aren't doing stuff now.  They would have to build the
> proceedures and habits into the community to make it really last
> beyond this current surge of interest.
>
> -sp
>
> On 8/7/07, Augustin (Beginner) <drupal.beginner at wechange.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 22:18, Larry Garfield wrote:
>>     
>>>>> It doesn't seem to help, though, since just today I saw a new module[1]
>>>>> cross the wire that is a duplicate of one I submitted a few months
>>>>> ago[2].
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://drupal.org/project/default_filter
>>>>> [2] http://drupal.org/project/filterbynodetype
>>>>>           
>>>> I actually win this one with 11 months:
>>>> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/input_format
>>>> _r estrictions/
>>>>         
>>> Hm, touche. I don't see it in the project list[1], though.
>>>       
>> And here is a fourth one:
>> http://drupal.org/project/filter_default
>>
>>
>> 4 modules to have different default input format by role AND/OR by node types,
>> one of which has never been published on d.o. (and never tagged for any
>> particular core branch).
>>
>> You might want to get in touch with the maintainer of the fourth module,
>> decide on which of the 4 projects becomes the semi-official one, and abandon
>> the other three...
>>
>>
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>>
>> A.
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