By seg108 on

my first month with drupal has been murder, but i'm not giving up. i wish there were hundreds of profile installations to choose from. but until then, what about setting up a voting system for modules? this would be a great resource for newcomers who could get an overview of tried & tested modules for specific tasks without drowning in the ocean of technicalities contained in the forums. you could have novice friendly categories like "image handling", "user profiles", "forums", "multimedia", and then a small list of the most popular modules used for that task & the nr of votes. by placing vote results on the downloads-modules page it may actually get noticed. it's just a stop-gap idea to help the less technical until the profile installations kick in in a big way. i think it would do drupal a big service too if less newcomers felt overwhelmed. maybe someone is already working on implementing module voting on the drupal.org site itself.

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jeanhr’s picture

jeanhr commented

Hi,

On the same subject, I made a proposal in an effort to improve this area of Drupal over a couple of months ago.
I almost went to the Barcelona meeting with this, but unfortunately could not due to time constraints.

Proposal for Open Quality Measurements and Ratings via Official Volunteer Testers
http://drupal.org/node/166471

Guess what? No a single reply yet from anybody.
Either there is no interest, or it seems to be a very touchy one...
Or I might be completely off base... (which I doubt...)
Or politically incorrect?

Nonetheless, it still is very relevant and would address directly lots of users worries, complaints and would strengthen the project in many ways and in many areas.

Jean

Poldy’s picture

Poldy commented

I too felt overwhelmed with the sheer number of modules. - Quite a bunch of them providing the same functionality from the perspective of a drupal-noob.

I would like to see something simple. like a scoring from 1 to 5 stars - the way it is done on so many other sites.

To counter the argument "A high-score doesn't mean it is the right module for you": absolutely right, but the chance of finding the right module faster by going from high-scored modules to the lesser high scored modules is much higher, don't you think?

Poldy