By hba on
Selecting which modules to use in Drupal is really an extremely difficult task. There is a wast amount of modules and it's hard to figure out which has the best features, which are updated often enough, which are of good quality etc.
This is probably something that has been asked before, but:
Joomla has "Most favoured", "Editor's pick", "Popular", "Best rated" modules, why don't we?
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drupalmodules.com
Good question. It's obviously not my personal decision to not do this, so I can't really answer why Drupal.org doesn't do that. Fortunately the gap was filled by another site. Do you know www.drupalmodules.com? That site offers a lot of what you're looking for: Higest rated, Most downloaded, Most favorited, user reviews... It's a really good site, go check it out.
One thing I'd like to add: in my opinion, all there ratings and top-10 lists can never replace the advice of experienced community members. I use drupalmodules.com to see what options are available, but when I have to decide between two modules offering the same functionality, I prefer to ask the community. After all, a high rating is a statistical calculation and it does mean something, but it can never take my specific situation into account.
drupalmodules.com vs real world data
drupalmodules.com is a nice idea, but it lacks severely without real world data. Even the "most downloaded" modules has a meager total of 37 votes/downloads.
We need statistics based on data from drupal.org:
- module download statistics
- usage statistics from the "available updates" module
- module rating by users, with possibility to include a comment
- "drupal.org picks", where drupal.org can highlight recommended modules
for usage stats
for usage stats http://drupal.org/project/usage
for module rating from users http://drupalmodules.com
and for acquia picks rather than drupal.org http://acquia.com/
ignore
sorry, I misread the question.
Something like this should
Something like this should only be on Drupal.org, just like Wordpress has it's plugin directory which is quite superior to all others. We shouldn't have to go to third-party sites to download modules. Setting this up would not be difficult to do and most users here want that but the Drupal regime never seem to want the goodness that the majority of users here want. They appear content with doing the same way over and over again despite all the post here to put some order to the modules. They can start by coming up with some standard categories, what kind of a category name is "misc" or "other".
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contemplating the meaning of existence, what else would I be doing
Drupal.org wishlist
I see now that "Quality/popularity ratings for modules" is at the top of the Drupal.org wishlist from 2007 (http://groups.drupal.org/node/6636).
Thanks for the usage stats link, rakisisesindekibalik! That link really should be shown at http://drupal.org/project/Modules -- and it would be really neat if relevant data was shown on each project/module page.
I guess the Acquia modules should be considered safe bets, but that doesn't really help users accessing drupal.org (unless they dig a lot and find posts like this one).
if you check
if you check http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/ and especially http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/download.html and http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/modules_detail.html those functions are on the way.
That's cool
I even see that each project has a "view usage statistics" link at the bottom (e.g. http://drupal.org/project/usage/guestbook ). Great stuff!
I guess we need to
- make these stats more visible
- link them into http://drupal.org/project/Modules (e.g. "sort by popularity").
- enable project voting (with optional comments)