[development] duplication and input format modules

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Neil Drumm <drumm at delocalizedham.com>:

> On 8/8/07, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I don't think duplicated modules are that big of a
>> problem and it is certainly something we should _not_ punish people
>> for.  I'm a firm believer of the fact that "deliberate duplication"
>> is a good.  "Unfortunate duplication", i.e. duplication as the result
>> of the fact that the author didn't know an almost identical module
>> already existed, is something we have to reduce though.
>
> Is the problem not looking, or looking and not finding? I doubt we can
> make a lot of progress telling people to look if they are not
> motivated to do it. Improving module findability would be a bigger
> help. The module creators who are motivated would have an easier job.
> And the much larger group of module users would be able to find
> modules easier.
>

I think it is more looking and not finding that is the issue.  The 
Modules, Themes and Translations pages are clearly highlighted at d.o. 
but only those that are published.  New works and redesigns need some 
attention.  I'm inclined to say that the default view of the modules 
page should be by name rather than category but then there are hundreds 
of modules so this probably isn't feasible.  I see more categories 
being added recently probably in hopes of modules being more easily 
found but now we're approaching category duplication with different 
names; e.g. "Commerce/Advertising" vs "e-Commerce module" or "Content" 
vs "Content display".  IMO, we need a sub categorization to give 
further depth or meaning to what someone might be looking for to allow 
the user to drill down to few modules.  210 modules in one category is 
asking a lot for someone to review when that someone is probably 
clueless anyway.  I might as well review by name and use the browser 
find function to maybe find one.

Earnie