[development] Core modules group

[Derek Wright]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

>> Would it be possible for the package generation process to check for
>> this and abort if the .info file isn't correct?
>
> Am I reading correctly that you just volunteered to write this patch?

If you do this, be sure to fix this first:

http://drupal.org/node/109181

"provide feedback to owners when there are errors packaging releases"

sadly, there's no mechanism right now whereby the packaging script  
can propagate errors back to the release owners.  if anything goes  
wrong, the package just doesn't get created and the release node  
remains unpublished.  stuff gets written to the watchdog logs, but  
the release owners can't read those, only d.o admins.  then, i just  
get support requests about "critical bugs" in the packaging  
infrastructure, or accusations that cron isn't running (which has  
also sometimes been true).

*sigh*

anyway, there's info in the issue (as always) about what needs to  
happen, someone just has to do the work.

cheers,
-derek

p.s. once there was a feedback mechanism in place, i'd be thrilled  
for the packaging script to do more sanity checking like this and  
refuse to create releases for projects that are doing stupid things,  
such as claiming a contrib is part of core, etc.