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Proposed Solution For Recruiting More Mentors and Contributors

The problems:

  • Useful modules are being abandoned because maintainers are not supporting them
  • New Drupal contributors are creating “useless” modules just to get access for creating full projects

Solutions:

  • New members may find a module they would like to support, and become a maintainer by solving issues and submitting patches
  • A page listing abandoned modules that is well promoted

Benefits:

  • New users will get a mentor
  • New users will not contribute useless modules
  • New users will learn by working on real project (more fun)
  • Maintainers will transfer a module to the person they trust

Possible problem of that:

  • Maintainers may drop coding standards after their first module is allowed
  • Bad maintainers may teach bad practises

Possible solution of that:

  • Each commit should be checked for code standards – even commits by module owners
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