[development] duplication and input format modules

[Steven Peck]

Didn't we just have 4 existing modules doing almost the same thing by
long time contributors who already know this in theory?

There was a time until 4.7 when I did in fact know every module in the
contrib repository.  I don't have the time or inclination anymore.
Something like this is really only solved by a human filter.  Anything
that involves a static list being checked has consistently failed in
the past.

-sp

On 8/7/07, Chris Kennedy <chrisken at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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...