Is <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> going to use it?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gábor Hojtsy</b> <<a href="mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu">gabor@hojtsy.hu</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello World,<br><br>After discussions about the state of Drupal module, it turned out that:
<br><br> - drupal module does two things: phone home to a central server and<br>distributed authentication<br> - <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> does not collect any information submitted with<br>drupal.module, so the phone home has no reason to live in Drupal
<br>itself<br> - Drupal 6 is going to ship with OpenID which is much more secure, so<br>there is no requirement to keep shipping Drupal module with Drupal<br>(but it should be made available for users looking for an upgrade
<br>path)<br> - Drupal module was misnamed, its namespace collides with built-in<br>system level functions<br><br>So after looking at all this, it was decided that Drupal module needs<br>to go out of core. At <a href="http://drupal.org/node/178768">
http://drupal.org/node/178768</a> we discussed the<br>future and suggested names. Because all features are kept for now, the<br>new name is site_network. Anyone looking for this functionality will<br>find the project at <a href="http://drupal.org/project/site_network">
http://drupal.org/project/site_network</a> from now.<br>Andy Kirkham (aka AjK) volunteered to maintain the module and moved<br>the existing drupal.module issues to the new project.<br><br>All-in-all I hope this improves the privacy (no useless phone-home
<br>feature to explain) and security (no password tunneling) of Drupal 6.<br><br>Gabor<br></blockquote></div><br>