[Pkg-javascript-devel] Regrouping some modules ? [Was Re: Comments regarding node-uid-safe_1.0.1-1_amd64.changes]

[Leo Iannacone]

On 23 August 2014 11:12, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 23 août 2014 à 11:00 +0200, Leo Iannacone a écrit :
>> On 23 August 2014 10:55, Leo Iannacone <l3on at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > On 23 August 2014 10:12, Leo Iannacone <l3on at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >> Why not try to identify some "categories" (as suggested for node-ms:
>> >> "time", or "email" or "filesystem" ...) to regroup those small modules
>> >> ?
>> >
>> > Another approach could be to group all modules which are coming from
>> > the same "team".
>> >
>> > For instance, we could have a "node-express-common" package which
>> > includes these repos:
>> >  https://github.com/expressjs/
>> >
>> > Or a "node-socket.io-common" package which includes the
>> > [socket|engine].io-* modules listed in:
>> >  https://github.com/Automattic
>>
>> Also:
>>  * https://github.com/jshttp/ (Low-Level JavaScript HTTP-related Modules)
>>
>> are there other "relevant" team ?
>
> I prefer the approach of bundling similar modules: it would help
> keeping track of "fragmentation" and eventually be able to reduce all
> related modules to one.
>
> The only advantage i see in bundling by "team" is that the modules are
> usually updated together inside a given team.
> The big disadvantage i see is that it keeps modules separated, without
> any incentive to make them converge.

So Jeremy,

what's your idea?

Have a big "node-{common|toolkit|whatever}" package which bundles
those small modules?