In a discussion that started on Twitter a while back with June Blender about the quality of the Modules being posted to the PowerShell Gallery I had an Idea on a way that we could help improve this from the community – using the tools that we have available to us and more importantly the expertise of the rest of the community to help shape and guide the direction for modules.
The Idea starts off with a simple GitHub Organisation, in this case this one – PowerShellModules – in which we set up a number of teams in that organisation. Some of the teams that I have had in mind include but are not limited to, Documentation, Unit testing, Practise guidance and then module maintainers.
This means that there will be a much more open way of directing the development of Modules for the community but still having the ability to allow modules to be developed in a way that allows others to add to them instead of branching out and creating a second module. This also will mean that there is a stronger focus on modules being updated as the overhead isn’t on a single maintainer but can be given to a number of multiple maintainers at any given time.
My thoughts around this would start with me porting my current ‘in progress’ modules to the organisation and building out the teams as mentioned above with a suggestions/RFC like repository that would allow us to drive this for the better of the community.
The end goal from my perspective would be to have 1 community recommended Module for a technology (examples being GitHub, Trello, VSTS, Slack etc) that has been widely community developed that covers as much of the functionality as it can without the need for a separate module.
We have a great community of people and I think that this is the right point in time to start the drive to improve the quality of what we all output to the community in a targeted and effort efficient method.
If your interested in getting involved please comment on this post with your GitHub User Name and I’ll get you added to the Organisation in due time but please keep an eye out for the Email from GitHub requesting you to join the Organisation especially in the Junk Folder 