Remove contact module from core

Discussions for removing a module or theme start in the core ideas queue. I am moving this issue to that queue.

I use this for my personal site. I don't want to be forced to use Webform for a simple contact form.

That's great to hear that you're using the Contact module for your site's contact form! It's certainly a simple and effective solution. I completely agree with you that there's no need to use a more complex module like Webform if you don't need all of its features.

That being said, if you're ever looking for more advanced forms functionality, such as conditional fields or multi-page forms, Webform can definitely come in handy.

Additionally, it should be noted that a modest proportion of websites appear to have adopted uncomplicated contact forms on their respective webpages. In light of this observation, it may be argued that the inclusion of such simple forms in the Drupal core, or even maintaining them in the core, may seem less justifiable.

This will need input from the various committer roles and the subsystem maintainer. I am adding the tags.

As we are well aware, contact module in the core is one of the least used modules among the others.

From my experience it's one of the most used modules. Unfortunately, we don't have a reliable statistics about core modules usage.

Just for the records the size of the Webform module is about 22.5 MB while the size of Contact module is about 0.5 MB. The are of different scale. Webform perhaps the largest Drupal module ever and using it for a simple contact form doesn't make much sense.

Duplicate of 🌱 [Policy] Move Contact module to contrib Active

Considering the node id of the issue, it is safe to say 3476879 🌱 [Policy] Move Contact module to contrib Active is a duplicate of this issue.

Regards.

Actually, the other issue is the one to keep open, for reasons given over there in #3476879-7: [Policy] Move Contact module to contrib → .