[development] Question about hosting project on Drupal.org

[Adam B. Ross]

Yeah, sounds like it should be treated like a PHP Library, with a thin
Drupal module to give it a menu router path and perhaps a permission.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists at midwales.com>wrote:

> On 23/03/12 14:35, David Metzler wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process of deciding whether to host a project on Drupal.org.
>> The project has to do with student assessment tracking for primary and
>> secondary education.  It is currently written in standalone php mode, but
>> I'm seriously considering rewriting it as a module that would run under
>> drupal.
>>
>> It is open source (GPL Version 2.0) so that is not a problem, but it
>> doesn't fit the drupal project in a few key ways:
>>
>> 1.  It is written to work with Postgres ONLY.  This is because I'm
>> leveraging stored procedures using plpgsql and views and other criteria, as
>> well as leveraging postgres ability to generate XML from the database.
>> 2.  It uses Adobe Flex for its data entry forms.  Not really interested
>> in rewriting this portion of the code into java script, but this source is
>> also GPL'd.
>> 3.  It's targeted towards k-12 school system and wouldn't really be
>> useful to generic web sites.
>>
>
> Sounds more like a project suitable for github.
>
>
>
>> I would likely be bundling a drupal open source distribution custom
>> tailored for k-12 schools to use this system.  I host 3 other projects that
>> are normal contrib modules, so I'm quite familiar with project hosting
>> requrements, porting strategies, etc.
>>
>> So with all that in mind,
>>
>> 1. Do people have an ideas/opinions on whether the custom module code
>> should be hosted on drupal.org or on the distribution site?
>> 2. Is there a process I should go through before hosting this module on
>> durpal.org? (I already have GIT access for my other modules)?
>> 2. Is there a process that I should go through before creating a custom
>> distribution and hosting on another site? Trough the association?  Through
>> Drupal.org?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any input.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
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