[development] standard dotinfo file "package" classification

[Morbus Iff]

> Modules that extend a particular "parent" module, such as CCK, Views, 
> Organic Groups, etc. use the "parent" module's name as the package. I 
> think you'd use this when your module would basically be completely 
> useless on its own without said parent module.

I think this should be the /only/ standard. If we meant "package" as 
"category", then we would have named it "category". There are three 
different names being bandied about here. I will define them:

  * package: *closely* related modules -- probably require each other.
  * distribution: a single tarball generated from the d.o release system.
  * category: the general type of module or feature it provides.

In the realm of .info files, currently we only care about package and 
distribution. I have /no problem what so ever/ with defining "category" 
to match d.o entries. But "package" should not be used for this.

> Modules that are not useless on their own tend to be classified by 
> their function, such as Voting, Development, etc. There doesn't appear 
> to be any standardization here, but it probably makes sense for the 
> Drupal.org category name and package name to match.

The problem with using category as a sorting function on admin/modules:

  * People generally can't categorize correctly.

  * "category" in an .info file is a lot slower to change than the
    category list on d.o - we'll get out of date within, oh, a month.

  * modules can be more than one category on d.o, and thus, so should
    the .info files allow. but if we based admin/modules on category
    (or even if we abused "package" in this way), then a module with
    three categories would be categorized under what? the first entry
    in the .info file? this would become a huuUge mess. people don't
    categorize in the same way as everyone else - this is why free
    tagging is so great.

I support a patch to rename "Uncategorized" to "Other".

I support any of my emails being munged into a documentation page.

 > I've done a grep of contrib-head:  http://drupal.pastecode.com/8783

Of this list, I'd only keep:

  Audio
  Bot (disclouse: this is mine)
  CCK
  Chat (maybe: would need to investigate more)
  E-Commerce
  Event
  Feed Parser
  Organic Groups
  Station
  Video
  Views
  Voting (but ONLY if it uses/requires eaton's VotingAPI)

And taxonomy_list needs to be corrected immediately - it abuses
itself into "Core - optional", which it most certainly isn't.

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