[development] Say Hello To My Little Friend (or How To Abandon a Module)

[andrew morton]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS
<Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:
>  >
>  > Right.  Big -1 on this abandoned user hack.

>  But, there are two goals with this change:
>  1) A visual cue to the user.  This was an afterthought and not nearly
>  as important in the motivation for this "hack" as
>  2) Helping people who, at one point for reasons that made sense at
>  that time, have a project page assigned to them and no longer want to
>  have it assigned to them.  I think that we should let our maintainers
>  off the hook if they find themselves in that position.
>
>  I wanted to solve problem 2 and don't see how #99466 gets us there.

I'll throw in my two cents. It sounds like #99466 would work too but
looking at the create date on that issue shows that this problem has
been looking for a solution for over a year and a half. As Voltaire
said, "the perfect is the enemy of the good". We shouldn't keep this
functionality from users while waiting on some "correct" way of doing
it.

andrew