I absolutely love Damien's proposal for an incubator repository! And an incubator section on the modules page, or an incubator_modules section, or something of the type.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Damien Tournoud <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Moshe Weitzman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Perhaps we should ask them to check a checkbox "I agree to maintain > this module". > >> > >> As nice as it may be, this is simply unrealistic. > > > > I think it is realistic and reasonable and prudent. IMO, > > cvs.drupal.org is not a place for code that you want to share briefly > > and forget about. or at least, lets segregate that out to something > > other than contrib/modules. > > This calls for the set up of an "incubator" repository, where modules > can mature and stabilize before getting into the "mainstream" > repository. Projects could be promoted from the incubator to the > mainstream repository via a review process. > > After all, we have an handful of modules that are very heavily used > and can be considered as critical for the community, and a "long tail" > of more targeted, special-cased modules that forms the richness of the > community, but that don't have the same quality / support > requirements. > > Between Views (the most used contributed module) and Admin Role (#100 > contributed module), there is a 1/20 usage ratio. I think it would > make sense that those "high profile" modules (and other modules, the > usage is just a data point here, there are obviously other things to > consider) comply with higher standards, and be identified as such. > > Damien Tournoud > -- Randy Fay Drupal Development, troubleshooting, and debugging [email protected] +1 970.462.7450
