The guidelines presented on the group creation page do not fall in line with the approval process being enforced.
Specifically:
Groups should fall into one of three categories:
working group coordinating on a Drupal feature, module, or distribution
a geographical user-group such as users in a specific city
or a Drupal event organizing group such as a DrupalCON organizing group
I was just denied / had a group deleted because there weren't enough people "around" my module:
Your Group entry entitled "dRealty IDX Developers" has been deleted by our content moderator. Our group guidelines are posted at http://groups.drupal.org/node/add/og. The group has been deleted from our site, though any posts inside the group should are still available.
You can discuss our group deletion policy at http://groups.drupal.org/groups-drupal-org
Note:
module development discussions should generally happen in the drupal.org issue queue except unless there is a very large community around it
Regards,
The groups.drupal.org teamMy question is this, why would i use the issue queue over a group when a group has much more to offer: events, wiki, etc.
Actions like this, with the vague reasons given make people not want to contribute, as you have to adhere to someone else's unpublished standards or rule set. Not sure what the policy is exactly or where the reasoning is behind denying a group that is intent on promoting a community and furthering development of drupal as a platform.
Further, could some one please quantify a "very large community"? 10 people, 100 people, 1000 people? At least give me a number to shoot for....
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From a size/activity
From a size/activity perspective:
* 100 people is definitely a good size.
* 20 is probably on the low end
If you can, make the topic broader than just the module. For example, there is no pathauto group, but there is a paths group that deals with pathauto, aliases, redirecting, etc.
What we've found is that groups focused on a single module tend to be less interesting/active than those focused on a topic area.
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I know it's annoying to have
I know it's annoying to have anything "trimmed." But greggles sounds like he has okay reasoning. How about joining up in the Real Estate group and then getting stuff that's appropriate as "dRealty IDX Developers"?