[development] lucid menu & aggregation

[Yves Chedemois]

Ashraf Amayreh a ecrit le 20/03/2007 09:43:
> Maybe you aught to submit an issue with your suggestions to the
> "closest" module? Many enhancements I made were based on such
> submissions.

I sometimes cross post features request to similar modules suggesting 
mainainers to merge their efforts.
And yes, that's my point, submitting patches / features requests to 
existing modules should be the first step before rolling your own module.

> I'd hate to say this, but some contributed modules are so badly
> written, so badly documented, that patching them up would be a living
> nightmare 

Quite true, obviously :-).

> Some had the logic thrown right into them in a pretty ugly way. I
> attempted to create a module that's extremely clean, extensible and
> efficient. So it's a software engineering standpoint that made it the
> right decision.

Now, _that_ is a good reason to consider forking or rolling a new 
module. The 'new and exclusive features' argument, whiich I was reacting 
to, is not, IMO. There are too many modules in contrib. Consolidation is 
not always possible or appropriate, but should be considered first.