[development] Wasting time and effort

[andrew morton]

Daniel's proposal to moderate the creation of project nodes is really
the only suggestion that I've found compelling in this thread. Having
a checkpoint that requires a maintainer to list other similar modules
and explain how their module is different from other existing ones
would be very helpful.

andrew

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien
<news at unleashedmind.com> wrote:
> One point of his proposal is valid though: We could do better in preventing
> duplicated modules and efforts.
>
> We have
>
> - CVS sandboxes for experimental code. (I'd argue that almost no one knows
> about sandboxes and how to use them)
>
> - Official projects on drupal.org. (With complete release, issue, and
> versioning systems)
>
> - No "moderation" for new project nodes. (Anyone with a CVS account is able
> to create anything)
>
>
> Question:
>
> Would it really hurt the process of evolution and innovation in Drupal when
> a new project ("request") would go into a "new projects queue" first, where
> all community members could do a quick review and optionally point to a
> possible existing project that could benefit from additional man-power,
> features, and stuff?
>
> Would such a process not even do the opposite - speeding up evolution (by
> not duplicating efforts)?
>
>
> I mean, as a developer, I can review a module's code to find out which
> module is sane to use.  Regular Drupal users cannot - they have to blindly
> choose one of the modules.  Whether developer or user, finding out which
> module to choose is a pain, a "waste of time and effort".
>
> Implementing that process would be fairly easy.  So I can only guess that
> the majority of developers a) either does not know about CVS sandboxes, or
> b) likes to have duplicate efforts, or that c) I'm on crack.
>
> sun
>
>