This sounds like it would also have the knock-on effect of making it easier for more/different modules to get included in core over time, which I think many people are also keen on. Is that part of the consideration? seems like with this process we could conceivably have a "experimental" couple of modules included in each version to test their suitability for core. (like the tokens module or similar) I am not sure I followed the necessary cvs tag work flow completely, but I'm sure you're discussed the details and the overview sounds good. Would this mean that we would get a packaging script for install profiles? Side note - several people are commenting that comment.module is quite poor. Is there an alternative that people are using that I'm not aware of? It works for me usually.