[development] New project vocabularies

[Ryan Cross]

+1 to addison & kathleen's sentiments.

I don't think this really has benefits, compared to the downsides. I also
think it takes away some of the creativity with using modules for different
purposes.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Kathleen Murtagh <kathleen at ceardach.com>wrote:

> I completely agree with Addison's sentiments here.
>
> With many modules being appropriate for all types of sites, we'll end up
> with a lot of noise in those categories preventing people from really
> finding modules that are specifically appropriate for their type of
> website.  How about separating the "always applicable" modules from the
> type-specific modules?
>
> I found the tags a bit confusing.  I wasn't quite sure what to put.  Help
> text that is specific to this context would be good, instead of the default
> general help for freetagging.
>
> --
> Kathleen Murtagh
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com>wrote:
>
>> Hm, while I get trying to categorize, I just want to point out that a vast
>> majority of modules will select very single "Type of site" so I'm not sure
>> that list is all that helpful. :-/ Most modules good for an E-learning site
>> are probably good for lots of other kinds of sites too.
>>
>> Just curious are we going to "maintain" the tags list of just let module
>> owners do what they will. I can see people doing weird things like --menus,
>> nice, dropdown, CSS, "add1suns modules", "best module evar", "must have" --
>> etc. It will say something about the maintainer, dependng what they put so
>> I'm not that pressed, but others may get in a froth over it. ;-)
>>
>> - Addi (rulAr of teh nIce Menus Universe)
>>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
>>
>>  Hello all,
>>>
>>> in participation of the new project pages and navigation as envisioned
>>> by Mark Boulton (see [1] and [2]), we added two new vocabularies to
>>> the project pages on drupal.org.
>>>
>>> We decided to add these in preparation of the new design so that we'd
>>> have enough data by the time we launch the new drupal.org (and so we
>>> can do proper performance testing of the Solr integration).
>>>
>>> If you edit your project(s), you'll see the two new vocabularies that
>>> I'm talking about, and how they relate to the designs in [1] and [2].
>>>
>>> [1] http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/download.html
>>> [2] http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/modules.html
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/
>>>
>>
>>
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