Maybe a crazy idea...

I think this two modules provide mainly the same functionality.
The only difference is the way it gets outputted.

It is possible to submit both, the urllist and gsitemap, to yahoo and google.
Both understand the formats.

So I ask you what speaks against merging this two projects together?

Pro:
* One codebase
* don't need to activate two modules with the same purpose (saves us RAM)
* Two maintainers working on one project (better code, greater features, etc.)
* saves us speed
* Now it is the perfect time to do it (because if you merge to drupal 5.x it does not matter if you have to install one new module or if you have to update two modules)

Contra:
* needs time to merge
* One of you has to close his project...

What do you think about this?

Comments

deekayen’s picture

deekayen commented

I'm too busy to do merge labor right now and urllist is hardly as complex as gsitemap, but I just gave SamAMac CVS access to urllist if he wants to merge there. Perhaps project page rights could follow. SamAMac, if you merge in urllist, you can take first author spot in the credits. It doesn't much make a difference to me if they're merged or apart, so do what you will.

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wonderland commented

This issue just solved itself :-) What we need now is a completly new module. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft just announced that they agreed on a general sitemap format. All three search engines will use this new format. See http://www.sitemaps.org/ for details. So wee need a sitemaps.org module (possibly based on the code of urllist and gsitemap modules). And with support for i18n module please :-)

..- Wonderland

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greggles
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Title: merge gsitemap.module and urllist.module » Rename gsitemap.module to reflect sitemaps as a standard

We don't need a new module, we just use the Google Sitemap module (though it should probably get renamed).

Requests for i18n problems deserve their own issues - don't pollute the issue queue with off topic requests.

I changed the title to reflect this change in the policies of the search engines.

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hass commented

...and please rename the url to "sitemap.xml"

Ryanbach’s picture

Ryanbach commented

Rename the module to sitemap as well.

What do you need two different sitemaps when one (XML sitemaps 0.9) will work?

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Ryanbach commented

What I mean to say was: why have two different formats when one will submit to them all?

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SamAMac commented

I don't think anyone is suggesting that at this point. The idea to merge with urllist was before the announcement that Yahoo would all be using the sitemaps.org format.

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darren oh
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Location Lakeland, Florida
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)