A discussion started on the IRC channel last week concerning the standard of modules and the possibility of having community based peer reviews of each module. I have started to develop an extension to the core and some additions to ModuleManager which will allow the administrator of each site to provide a rating of each installed module. The reviews will be available from the ModuleManager and also (hopefully) on the individual project pages in the Forge.
The idea behind this is that new users of CMSMS will be not be distracted or put off by installing modules which are in beta mode, not fully developed, buggy etc...
So far, I have implemented the following in my local version - I will submit this to Ted & co. when it is complete.
Each module is rated (1 to 5 stars) according to
- Does it function as described?
- Is it feature rich ?
- Is it easy to Use / Configure?
- Is documentation abundant and clear?
- Is it easy to customise the look and feel of the module output?
- From a developer standpoint does the code conform to CMSMS standard?
I should have a beta version of this early next week, all comments regarding this matter are welcome and I will implement those that we reach concenus on.
Alan