[development] module duplication in Drupal contrib

[Steven Jones]

Not entirely sure how feasible this would be but...

When I used media temple for hosting, and you had a problem, you'd
fill in a form to get technical support, but you'd hit submit and it'd
suggest some KB articles to look at that were 'similar'. If none of
those really answered the problem then you could submit a new issue.

In the same way when you submit a new module it would be cool if d.o
somehow suggested similar modules (based on keywords maybe) and then
rather than blindly creating a new module you'd get some help finding
duplicates.

Side note: Not having *any* metrics for projects on d.o is a very
serious problem.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some modules are sledge hammers and some are scalpels... duplication
>  isn't bad... making core more accessible for modules to implement
>  features should be the focus of collaboration.
>
>  Policing whether collaboration happens at the contrib module level or
>  not is probably a tragic was of community resource and a further attempt
>  to apply more structure to the very successful anarchist environment
>  call cvs.drupal.org/cvs/drupal-contrib
>
>
>
>
>  On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 11:25 -0300, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > "Modules that duplicate functionality available from an existing
>  > module are damaging to the Drupal project."
>  >
>  > Please support or refute that statement and propose strategies for
>  > managing CVS applications and/or projects on Drupal.org in a way that
>  > will best help the Drupal project.
>  >
>  > I'm using "Drupal project" in a very loose sense so you should infer
>  > that it includes lots of groups of people like new users, site
>  > builders, contributors, drupal.org admins, the security team, etc.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Greg
>  >
>
>



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Regards
Steven Jones