[drupal-docs] Re: [CS dev] Publication module released (as "epublish")

[Liza Sabater]

Hello and delurking,

I am sure this is a wonderful contribution to the Drupal and  
CivicSpace module base and I thank Sheldon. Yet, I am a bit  
disappointed. With all the talk about user-friendly docs in Drupal,  
we still seem to be a long way from the mark.

Please, please, please, can Drupal make it a pre-requisite for  
developers to publish screenshots of what the module's functionality  
and end-product look like? With all due respect, but I think it is  
unacceptable, needless to say not user friendly, to not be able to  
see what the module does unless one installs it and tries to figure  
out how it works.

Would it be prudent to turn that module section into a template with  
a uniform style that would require a minimum of 3 images; so that  
developers get into the "think about the little people" mode when  
uploading?

My more than 2 cents.

Best,
liza



On Sep 25 2005, at 04:58, Sheldon Rampton wrote:

>
> The "publication" module, which I have discussed previously on this  
> forum, is now available for downloading from Drupal CVS, at the  
> following URL:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/epublish
>
> Due to a naming conflict (someone else has separately created a  
> different module called "publication"), we renamed our module to  
> "epublish.module." Our module helps organize a group of nodes into  
> a publication, such as a newspaper, magazine or newsletter. Each  
> publication can have multiple editions. Within each edition, the  
> epublish module also makes it possible to organize content by  
> topic, similar to the way news websites such as the New York Times  
> categorize their content into sections such as "international,"  
> "national," "sports," etc. It also provides a few themeable  
> layouts, and additional layouts can be added if needed.
>
> We've been using this module for several months now on our own  
> website (www.prwatch.org), and seems stable and reliable.
>
> --Sheldon Rampton
>
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