[development] Duplicated modules

[Karoly Negyesi]

Hi,

OK all you wiseasses, now you pissed me off enough to bring these
issues into wider public, so tell me what to do in these situations.

1) There is a Drupal module, older than my boots, gets a much needed
rewrite by two guys. Comes a third one, and he is, of course, welcome
to the party. There is a discussion of what we do and what we not to
do. Come next day, said third guy does what we all three agreed not
do. Following a debate, he packs his toys and starts a new project.
Said third guy contributes heavily to Drupal project for extremely
long but quality and quantity does not always correlate.

2) I hand off privatemsg to another maintainer. He wants to go in a
direction which neither me nor someone else even higher in the Drupal
hierarchy agrees with. We all three come to a happy conclusion and the
new maintainer does not go there. Time passes, and another guy,
notorious for starting a parallel project, does exactly the thing we
agreed on not to do and despite he says it was just experiment with
the new Drupal 6 code, the project lives on.

NK

PS. the project moderation queue would undo Drupal because people
would take their not-accepted projects off site. php nuke follows.
PS2. 'mob rule' applied to code does not work. Your precious
drupalmodules.com which I opposed from day one is an excellent
example. captcha rated #2 , cck and views not even in #10, give me a
break, this is broken,.