I'm not sure what's going on here. Oleg/litwol (http://drupal.org/user/78134) created two recent projects that don't have any kind of real description and are basically empty and serve no purpose. Now I get joke modules, but these two projects don't seem like it. Personally I think they need to be deleted. I already filed issues for both trying to get an explanation.

Do we need to warn Oleg? Did his account get hacked?

http://drupal.org/project/litwol
http://drupal.org/project/global

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bdragon commented

They were in fact created on purpose in response to discussion in #drupal earlier today.

Discussion is ongoing in IRC at this time.

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Ok I'll try and listen in, but I'm still not sure why they should be official projects.

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deekayen commented

+1 on deleting the project

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They were in fact created on purpose in response to discussion in #drupal earlier today.

Doesn't make them right. The webmasters list got a mail saying that drupal.org had been hacked.

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From the mail:

[webmasters] [Spam on drupal.org] Potential hack/spam in progress at drupal.org

The user 'litwol' appears to have just created two new projects:

* http://drupal.org/project/global
* http://drupal.org/project/litwol

But these do not appear to be genuine. May just be someone being silly, but
thought I should let you know.

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nevets commented

+1 on delete from me, they seem like spam projects.

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EDIT: I don't use either of these modules. The "global" namespace could be a good space for some maps-related module. As for "litwol", its his name, so I don't see it interfering with anyone else's namespace. In summary, I see no reason to delete "litwol", while the "global" namespace might actually be wanted.

-1 to delete "litwol". +1 to reallocation of "global".

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deekayen commented

I was only referring to litwol project.

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OK +1 delete

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@Rob Loach: You mean you're using http://drupal.org/project/global and not http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect right? Until we get a better description for the 'global' project it seems to be in the same case as the litwol project.

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Now I'm just confused. :(

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Litwol agreed in irc to delete them.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

Litwol apparently has asked people to endorse his "module" here.

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Did someone block litwol's account by accident or purpose?

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bdragon commented

Dave Reid: Don't worry about it, just a little bit of slapstick comedy between litwol and infra/webmasters.

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I did block it. Litwol justified the creation of these nodes by the philosophy that they made him laugh therefore he should create them.

It makes me laugh to think that his account is blocked therefore I should block him. I don't intend it to be permanent and assume someone will fix it when he cares enough.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

Very funny. :)

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Sounds good.

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likewhoa commented
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please port to drupal-7

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oops didn't mean to set active, but request still stands :D

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After some more discussion he is now unblocked.

Litwol explained that we has reserving namespaces for projects and that there is no documentation about how to do that. So, I've created documentation for it: http://drupal.org/node/709398

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litwol commented

Linking to the right page: http://drupal.org/node/709790

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Thanks for the follow-up greggles and litwol. That certainly helps explain things. I'm disappointed that didn't come across originally with the projects, explanations, or issues, but like was pointed out, we don't have documentation on what to do. Moving onward and upward.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

Not having documentation is no excuse to behave like a complete ass.

This is the single most disrespectful experience I've had on drupal.org except of spam in over eight years.

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I agree with killes; not having documentation is not an excuse to do what litwol did. The simple fact he didn't have a valid justification is already a reason he should not have created those projects, and cause such alarm on the community.

I think that in case of doubt, it is always better to ask before to do something. IRC is there for that, and there are always people ready to help you; I have always found somebody ready to tell me if what I had in mind was the correct way to do something.

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