Ok, even though I'm listing a lot of module ideas here, I'd still like everyone to come up with some of their own so I can work on them :D. Here they are:

  • Wiki-like filter module (I know PearWiki Filter module exists) that does not require external packages and works well with drupal (links to taxonomy terms, etc).
  • Module that makes a book tree block that is expandable/collapsible. Can be based on DHTML menus and the drupal core book block.
  • A module that allows categorization of users similar to the book module's categorization of nodes.
  • A personal menu block module which allows users to type in new links and add them to their block.
  • A module that creates an inheritance pattern for taxonomy: for example, when a node is tagged with a child term, it is automatically tagged with all parent terms of that term, and their parents, etc., all the way up to root.

Some of these ideas are very wild; any feedback / new module ideas would be welcome! Once there are some that people think are strong, they can be made into tasks.

-cwgordon7

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pagaille commented

+1 on module that makes a book tree block that is expandable/collapsible (YUI Treeview would be nice for this)
+1 on module that creates an inheritance pattern for taxonomy

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wmostrey commented
Status: Active » Needs work

Generally these types of task ideas are discouraged. First of all it is important that you find a mentor for each of these projects. The best thing you can do to get this all working is to find a module that would fit your category, contact the maintainer and ask him if he wants to mentor the student coding the new feature(s). If he agrees, create a new task idea for that one module. Also, please create the task idea using the task guidelines as found on the node/add/project-issue/ghop page.

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cwgordon7 commented
Status: Needs work » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

This isn't technically a task idea, it's really just a brainstorming session. We'll come up with one or two "wanted modules", find mentors & maintainers for them, and then create tasks.

This isn't meant to be a task idea/proposal. Sorry for the confusion. I'll set it to active (needs more info) because we need more opinions from the Drupal community.

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ryanrain commented

hey all - i'm yet another end user who is extremely grateful to the drupal community, but am having a lot of trouble learning php in the small amount of time i have available. nonetheless, here's my contribution to this module brainstorm:

scenario
many folx need to perform simple edits on large number of existing nodes.
http://drupal.org/node/205725
http://drupal.org/node/207593
there are more...
it is possible to do this by directly querying the database ( http://drupal.org/node/134535 ) but that's frankly terrifying to most of us who know no sql.

thoughts
a module that would add an incredible amount of power to drupal would be the ability to generate pages on which multiple nodes could be modified with a single click of the submit button. @yojoe describes a layout where "Nodes are presented in a table-like structure. Nodes are in rows and the fields/widgets to be edited are in columns. This way you could easily update all affected nodes at once." i think it would be necessary to facilitate the editing of cck custom node types. it would be amazing to be able to use views to generate a query that would then result in a custom mass-node-edit page.

resources
i don't know if the new batch api might also be useful: http://drupal.org/node/180528

again, i know i'm not being very helpful here, but thought i'd at least give my use-case since i'm sure it is a common one. hopefully somebody more knowledgeable might find this interesting.

-ryan

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wmostrey commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

As per the latest instructions by Angie these ideas are now too vague and generic to be used by any of the Google initiatives.