Link to project: Drigg
Current maintainers and years last activity on Drupal.org:

Of these, only mercmobily (current owner) can administer maintainers.

Most recent branch: 6.x-1.x
Usage statistics: 15 sites.

Original summary

Few weeks ago lashad came forward as new maintainer of the module and the ownership was transferrred to him. But Since then there is no comment/note/update from the new maintainer. So looks the new maintainer is no longer interested in drigg, effctively abandoning the module. Am I correct?

Comments

grawat’s picture

grawat commented

looks like.. the official 6.x version hasn't been released since Nov 08. There is not going to be any further features developed for this module and drupal 7 version is probably never going to come out. For anyone who is interested in something of this sort should start looking at the vote up/down module http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down and I guess at some point drigg will be deprecated in favor of that module.

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

The new maintainer disappeared. They looked very promising. How disappointing.
What can I say?

Merc.

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

You can say the truth about this new maintainer who didn't do a thing, they should be ashamed, they never said anything in here or on drigg-code.com forums. This is really disappointing.
I don't understand why no developper is interested in developping drigg further, what is their problem, lack of time of course, but they have time to develop other modules, and one could have stepped up to improve drigg as a summer of code project.

I don't know why.

drupallogic’s picture

drupallogic commented

I believe Drupal management should consider putting a hand on this module as there are so many people out there looking for a Digg-clone script.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

By "drupal management" you mean core team, then I don't agree with you comment. There are several issues that core need to address, from resource point of view, they should not dabble in contrbuted module. I think it is like marketplace. If there is enough support and interest the modules survives if not it would die. If there is enough interest, why no one is coming forward? perhaps they are afraid they will not get anything out of it. If we need something happens to drigg module we need to come up with ways to support it.

kdes’s picture

kdes commented

maybe if there are enough members who can contribute, drigg could get a paid maintainer.

drupallogic’s picture

drupallogic commented

I didn't say core team should maintain the module. I'm sure they can persuade someone to be the mainter of this module. Sometimes works need a little push so they can move on. if not they die! just like happened in the history!

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

I am keeping an eye on this thread, and will try to work something out so that Drigg gets a new maintainer.
Sorry about this guys. I had no idea this was happening...

Merc.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

Merc,
while you are finding new maintainer, could you please atleast commit the patches already reviewed and tested by community? SO we can continue to make progress, whatever slow pace it may be.

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

I don't even have the code checked out right now, and don't have a computer to do it.
Is anybody here familiar with CVS?

Ah, I actually can't. I don't have writing access I don't think...

Merc.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

Merc, as mentioned here (http://drupal.org/node/421476) you should have correct CVS access.

yeeloon’s picture

yeeloon commented

Hi Merc,

It would be great if you can take back drigg and bring it to the next level, since you've done a great job previously. Felt it's a shame if this is left to rot... I'm sure all of us would like to a more improved drigg.

Cheers,
yeeloon

munikho’s picture

munikho commented

I wholeheartedly agree, because if this project fades out, my project will probable fade out as well.

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Hi,

You all would like that Merc works on this project but who is ready to chip in ?

We should just start chiping in and hope !

But i dont think that saying "you should finish this project..." would bring us any further...

Thanks for listening !

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

Screw this.
Don't worry about the money, I cannot bear seeing such a community, hard work (mine but more importantly yours), and great software being abandoned like that.

I am back developing Drigg.

I will set up my development machine tomorrow, get the CVS tree back, etc. I will need a little bit of guidance, guys, because -- terrifying thought -- I can't even remember the codebase properly. I haven't touched the code in month. You know better than me which patches are ready to go, what works, what doesn't, etc.

The next step is to make me an administrator again. Can you please help me make this happen? Please notify the infrastructure guys of this:

http://drupal.org/node/479662

Thanks a lot,

Merc.

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

That's so great thank you!!!
100% DRIGG, 0% PLIGG !!!

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Merc is back, Hip Hip Hooray !!!

Let's buy booze and get drunk ;-)

DRIGG 1 point - Pligg 0 point !

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

Luckily chx was great and actually checked what the situation was, rather than redirect me to the "what to do with abandoned projects" page.

Thanks CHX.

Well I guess the issue is solved, now that I am back on board.

AS I said, I will need quite a bit of help to sort things out. I want to get to the point where it has 0 bugs, and all feature requests. So, lets' get the bugs sorted out.

Merc.

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

I will leave one of you guys the honour to mark this issue fixed...

Merc,

alliax’s picture

alliax commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Thank you, I hope you enjoyed your vacation from Digg :-)

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Hi,

Well, setting it as active again... since User Karma is a VERY important dependency, and I am not really willing to work on it if the current 'maintainer' is the same person who let Drig rot for months.

http://drupal.org/node/479786

Bye,

Merc.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Marking this fix as mercmobily is now owner of user_karma and drigg

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

Thank you guys.
Please chip in in the current plan for Drigg... It's probably the most important issue right now!

Merc.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Sorry to bring this up again. But would like to know if this module is abandoned?

With all fairness to Merc, he was in hospital for several days so do not expect him to be back and contributing.

There seems to be growing usage of this module with some commercial interest (which is great). However somehow there is still not enough developer support or community to help this out or work with Merc. So giving a call for all those who may be interested to contribute and see if we can get 6.x released.

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

Yes, it would be nice to have a stable release, but honestly I have a site in production with Drigg6 and it's fine!
What more should we ask for in terms of features or bug fixes?

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

I agree that we should help, but as it seems that most Drupal and Drigg users are stingy persons who just want to take advantage of developers work without contributing by any way, there is no chance to go further ! I give up !

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

What are you talking about? What kind of help have you given to drigg???

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

There will be always some people who would like to but won't be able to help and some who can help but won't for various reason. Instead of wasting our energy discussing why and who is not helping, how about we discussing what we can help.

As I have helped in the past, I would like to help with testing and submitting to issue queue. Occasionaly I had courage to submit very tiny patches but I am not a developer.

Anyone wants to help drigg (and help yourself in the process)?

feconroses’s picture

feconroses commented

I agree 100% with ajayg.

Like ayayg im not a developer, but i can help with testing, submitting to issue queue and translating to spanish!

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

What MERC needs is your money, testing everybody can do it !

Thanks.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

For new features I can understand. I am trying to atleast ralley support for patches already submitted by community to be commited and R6 released. Slow start but atleast a start.

feconroses’s picture

feconroses commented

Any news? This wonderful module seems abandoned right now :(

garamvideos’s picture

garamvideos commented

yes, looks that way.

summit’s picture

summit commented

Hi Merc, I heared you where in Hospital hopefully everything is fine with you again!!

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Any news ?

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

Merc contacted someone at the start of october saying he's back to normal health and plan on taking things back where they were in june. So Drigg is not dead at all, it's just sleeping, but already working and used in production.

Chrys’s picture

Chrys commented

All the best to merc :)

Merc's health (and anyone's health) is much much important than any software

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

Merc communicated by email with me and looking for development help. If anyone of you developer out there willing to help please get in touch with Merc.

ajayg’s picture

ajayg commented

My original post was more than a year ago and last comment was about 9 months ago. There has been no updates to drigg in that duration.
So it is clear this module is abandoned.

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

But fortunately this Drigg module is working, i just wonder what will happen when the site will reach 100 000 scoops ?

Does somebody manage a very big Drigg website ?

Thanks.

superfedya’s picture

superfedya commented

How sad, it was the best module (better than Pligg) :( What we can do now?

scott859’s picture

scott859 commented

subscribing

sinmao’s picture

sinmao commented

so if i want to create a digg site, should i use drupal 5 or 6 version? is 6 as stable? does it have all the features of 5? thx.

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Not sure that it's a good idea to start a digg website with a dying module...

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

yes, the 6 version works as good as the 5. If you really want to start a drigg site, use the 6.

sinmao’s picture

sinmao commented

What choice do I have since it looks like it's still the best thing out there ...

hokuspokus’s picture

hokuspokus commented

I've been using for a year now and it's stable enough. Future Drupal updates may break it, but it has been chugging away with no problems so far. I say go ahead and use it.

ilyushkin’s picture

ilyushkin commented

www.oddnews.org Big Enough? So far had no problems. Running version 5 of Drigg. At this point, I'm looking forward to see if Drigg will resurrect or I will have to stick with something else.

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

Unfortunately there is not something else that works with Drupal.
The saddest part is we don't even know what happened to Tony Mobily the creator of Drigg.
Ah, that would be so good to have a Drigg 7 since Drupal 7 beta1 just came out today, but alas, that's not going to happen.
Doing it with Pligg is not an option for me, I want only Drupal sites from now on, I tried wordpress, pligg even joomla and honestly I feel at home only with drupal, it's such a cute and powerful cms at the same time.

WildBill’s picture

WildBill commented

Didn't mercmobily quit Drupal a while back?

http://drupal.org/node/357941

And he appears to be fine, just working on other projects now. Here's something he posted last week:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_embraces_unity_and_wa...

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

He was too emo :-)

summit’s picture

summit commented

It is a great guy, and drigg was a great project of him. Does anybody take it over please?
greetings, Martijn

OnlyBlue’s picture

OnlyBlue commented

Suppot Drigg!

estevan_carlos’s picture

estevan_carlos commented

I'm shocked this module and it's development isn't more popular/active. Not that we need to create Digg clones but that Digg formula is fun, easy and useful.

codeman1234’s picture

codeman1234 commented

Hey Merc,

Glad you are ok, are you going to find a new maintainer or the project is dead? Because I have 2 sites using this module and its a shame if its abandoned.

Can this drigg clone be done with other Drupal modules, if so what modules?

Please let us know.

Cheers!!

codeman1234’s picture

codeman1234 commented

Hey Merc,

I just read http://drupal.org/node/357941 did you abandon all drupal projects at the end or what happen?

I hope everything end all right.

Cheers!

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

Yes drigg has been abandonned. I guess it could be done by using other modules, but not in a neat package like Drigg.. Much more knowledge of Drupal is involved in doing a digg clone only with other modules.

cnergis’s picture

cnergis commented

For the many folks posting and bemoaning the status of drigg as a project, is it not possible that we come together and start a replacement project .. probably from scratch?

I personally think this is a worthwhile effort, but I am fairly new to drupal, and doubt I am qualified to play a lead role on a project just yet .. I need a very experienced hand to guide my efforts. Are there any potential mentors in this thread who are keen enough on this to at least give a new project a try?

See other posts around this same situation below:
-- http://drupal.org/node/367219
-- http://drupal.org/node/528518
-- http://drupal.org/node/1346862
-- http://drupal.org/node/357941
-- http://drupal.org/node/1238526

Chrys’s picture

Chrys commented

I tried to take over the project some time ago. Merc was very polite and even gave me guidance. I even made some commits!

Unfortunately other more important things came to my life, so I didn't have time to continue.

My suggestion is to find someone that knows Drupal and pay him to do it. I could spare around $100 and even start a new website (code, demo, forum etc).

I believe that lots of people could benefit from a new module. Furthermore I believe that Merc will find some time to help the new developer.

So, what do you think?

alliax’s picture

alliax commented

I think such a digg-like can now be done, more simply by using cck, views and the voting modules..

Anyway, the traffic is not up to what it once was, no need to start a digg like nowadays, google has slapped them like it slapped web directories before..

good luck anyway..

cnergis’s picture

cnergis commented

Chrys, I am really keen on taking this further .. even without financial contributions from others .. But first, I need to get real comfortable with drupal module development and internal architecture ..

Alliax, I still think there is a lot of scope for using such sites .. perhaps not as a full blown site of its own, but as a sub-segment of wider-scoped site .. Please, if you have any guiding suggestions to make, please do let us know .. thanks .

hokuspokus’s picture

hokuspokus commented

Chrys, I am really keen on taking this further .. even without financial contributions from others .. But first, I need to get real comfortable with drupal module development and internal architecture ..

Alliax, I still think there is a lot of scope for using such sites .. perhaps not as a full blown site of its own, but as a sub-segment of wider-scoped site .. Please, if you have any guiding suggestions to make, please do let us know .. thanks .

Still interested out here as well. I have a site up and running still that is exactly what you say; a wider-scoped site with a drigg element. I have no real coding ability, but I'll give whatever assistance/support I can.

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Title: Is this module now abandoned? » Drigg seems an abandoned project
Project: Drigg » Drupal.org project ownership
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev »
Component: Code » Abandoned/unsupported projects
Category: Support request » Task
Issue summary: View changes
Priority: Critical » Normal

The project link is https://www.drupal.org/project/drigg.

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gisle
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Issue summary: View changes

I say this one looks pretty abandoned. One of the co-maintainers (Chrys) posted on Drupal.org last year, but the issue queue is clearly not monitored and there is no Drupal 7 (or later) version.

I think this one should be marked as unsupported and handed over to "Unsupported projects".

I've added some information to the issue summary.

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Assigned: Unassigned » avpaderno
Status: Active » Fixed

I marked the project as abandoned.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.