The module certification program, while a good idea, proved to be too time consuming and costly.

I think a lot of the issues John brought up could be helped, if not completely solved, by changing the module rating system on snowcovered.  Some issues would include:

• The rating system sometimes seems to be a developer rating system rather than a product rating system.  You click on the ratings for a product and you get ratings for a different product by the same developer.
• I think it would be very handy to have both - an overall developer rating/comments section and an individual product rating/comments section.
• There are product ratings for versions that are three or four years old mixed with ratings for the current version with no way of telling which is which. Need to add a version field to the new rating form.
• I have seen bad ratings on some modules and when you check back six months later they are gone.
• Clients need to be able to add additional comments down the road.  Maybe an initial thoughts/installation/set-up rating/comments area followed by a long term rating/comments area - all on the same form - clients can edit their own rating/comment.

The other issue John brings up that I have also run into is developers abandoning their modules.  Snowcovered is littered with these modules and while a DNN community member that has been around for awhile knows this newcomers may not.  Why not have a snowcovered area where developers can sell module rights to each other combined with a policy that abandoned modules get uploaded to the DNN Forge (as a last resort).