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By cavamondo on
Im having a bit of a hard time to find a mesaaging module for v.6 ... can this be right?
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Yep that be right, you are
Yep that be right, you are at the mercy of the maintainer of the modules, when they feel like getting around to upgrading it. This is a must have module, hope it gets upgraded soon.
Like I say to everyone who
Like I say to everyone who complains about un-updated modules. If it's critical for you, either do it yourself, or pay someone else to do it. This is a community, nobody here has any responsibility to upgrade modules because you (or others) wants it to be done.
It must be nice to have a
It must be nice to have a community where nobody is responsible for anything, I think that's how governments came into being, ignorance is bliss. Nobody here is complaining, it's all good, just making an observation, a correct one I might add. If I were a module builder, I would put some serious dedication behind it, even not getting paid for something is no excuse to simply say "i'll get around to it when I feel like it". I'd have the upgraded module out the night before the official version came out, but that's just me.
It would be an interesting idea if there were somewhere users could go to create their own modules without having to know coding.
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So to summarize, you're saying that you're not giving anything to the community. But if you did, you would do a better job than all those people who are giving to the community. Inspirational post.
I'm not a mechanic. But if I was a mechanic, I'd be way better than all of those other mechanics.
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'even not getting paid for something is no excuse to simply say "i'll get around to it when I feel like it".'
I dunno, I think it's a damned good reason. I do a lot of work around here for free but I do it on my terms. If things changed and I was forced to work for free, I'd be out of here pretty quick. Last I heard slavery was illegal.
Michelle
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Have you tried searching the
Have you tried searching the module page or google at all?
Sometimes something interesting appears on http://litwol.com
there is 1 or 2 available under community
try http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg it works for me. The one that says HEAD is the 6.x version
The point I was attempting
The point I was attempting to make was doing something free should never ever diminish the quality of professionalism and dedication. This is a common thing on the internet, it's free, so screw you, I do it my way on my terms, what a load of shitz. If you are going to volunteer for a community, you do it as if you are getting paid, this is standard in any organization otherwise who needs it. Nobody is forcing you to provide service, dat is true, at least do it like you mean it. I've observed many a lazy, half-way plugin makers in open source communities. I know I could do better if I were a code developer, my expertise is in quality control :)
You must understand, surely,
You must understand, surely, that most developers here will be creating/maintaining modules as a sideline to their normal day-to-day activities be it work or studying. They will have a limited amount of time to 'donate' (if you will) to Drupal.
If many of these coders adhered to the high standards you'd like to see, one would be lucky to see a fraction of the available code we see now and the community would be poorer for it. there are an awful lot of great and useful modules out there that borrow heavily, and get excellent ideas from, these partial and/or incomplete modules.
If you're indeed in the field of Quality Control, then you will know that you essentially get what you pay for. This is almost too obvious to belabour...
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Here you go. Go show us all how it's done. Feel free to post again when you've spent countless hours of your time for free writing code for ungrateful people like yourself.
Michelle
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