Project abandoned and duplicated

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Project abandoned and duplicated

I've noticed the new Google requirement too, and looked into this and it appears that this module is not being updated (abaondoned).

I've posted previously (above) in the comments here requesting that this be moved to a drupal.org project so that it can be updated via drush and any available updates show up in admin\available updates.

I just wanted to point out that there are 2 other projects that also seem to be no longer maintained.

The first drupal.org project is called "Google Base" and is located here -> http://drupal.org/project/googlebase - which seems to be abandoned (see my questions in the issue queue), and I'm not even sure that it works with Ubercart.

The second drupal.org project is called "Ubercart Google Merchant Integration" and is located here -> http://drupal.org/project/uc_gbase. It also seems abandoned. It seems that this is specifically meant to work with Ubercart and it appears that there is some traffic in the issue queue and at least some interest in taking over the module by potential maintainers.

I suggest that we point all interested to the "Ubercart Google Merchant Integration" (http://drupal.org/project/uc_gbase) module for the following reasons:

A) it is meant to work with Ubercart
B) It is already a drupal.org project meaning that new code commits can be added easily and end-users can get updates via Drupal's admin\available updates interface, and can be updated via Drush.
C) There appears to be interest in maintaining it

If someone wants to maintain this module, and/or potentially aggregate all 3 projects and take the best code/features of each, you get my vote!

I've posted questions in the googlebase and uc_gbase projects already and I've posted messages here in the Ubercart.org contrib so that this duplication of abandoned projects gets noticed by anyone either trying to fix the modules due to the new Google requirements, or just starting out with an Ubercart site and wanting to add Google base support.

Google Base RSS Feed, 2.3.1 By: danbaker (40 replies) Sat, 06/20/2009 - 12:36