By joep.hendrix on

Having a look at the latest modules (http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14), I noticed that there already more then 10 pages of new modules in the month july 2007!!!

Although I really appreciate the hard work done by the individual contributors, the amount of modules is just getting too much to browse through. I also have a feeling that there are modules that have similar functionality.

In order to keep the list of modules usable it would be great to have some kind of seperation in the contributed modules. Maybe a rating system and a list of approved modules (editors pick).

We might want to learn from Joomla (http://extensions.joomla.org).

Thanks, Joep

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Rowanw’s picture

Rowanw commented

Not trying to be rude but this has been discussed a few times before: http://drupal.org/search/node/project+ratings

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joep.hendrix commented

Not rude at all. Thanks for pointing me to the search link.
However, it does not hurt to mention it again because it should be implemented IMHO.

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Heine commented

This is a summer of code 2007 project: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5175
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joep.hendrix commented

http://groups.drupal.org/node/3314

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cog.rusty commented

Generally a good idea. But what should the numbers say?

Occasionally I get a "download statistics" list from a drupal mailing list -- that covers a part of the picture (people voting with their feet), but a module can get high numbers just because it is dealing with a popular task.

There is also that option in drupal.module which tells you that it will be sending anonymous module usage statistics to drupal.org. I must confess I always disable it. I don't see any data coming from this in drupal.org and I say to myself "why bother? who is going to look at these stats anyway? the module developer? other users? where?".

An idea is to design a system where sites which have been using a module consistently for some time are eligible to voting for a module with a "good module: +2" or an automatic "hmm... I needed it: +1". Maybe also a result with normalized number of voters to show only the "perceived quality".

Of course these things need man-hours.

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Edited to add:
Oops. Thanks everyone for the links.