Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
Let me clarify my comments : What I meant was, move it to an archived
area where people can see the whole history and progression of Drupal. Keep it there with big blaring red letters saying --DRUPAL DEVELOPERS DO NOT SUPPORT THESE VERSIONS. Do so anyway so people can look at the structural aspects of it --and in the event they need anything during an upgrade, at least have the files available.
These archives and this information is not for you or any of the current developers. it's not just FOSS products that keep archival reference to their product development. Many proprietary products do so as well. This is for future users and coder and the community in general to learn the product's history and development. Why do you want to make it hard for people to get to this information?
Liza, you know the "history and progression" is closely monitored by CVS, this is the tool we use to watch how the system evolves, and it has all the interesting details, point releases, contributors, etc.
I think we should simply give people the link to explore that themselves, the mentioning of three letter acronyms is likely to confuse people. This is a link to our web interface to CVS: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/ History of user.module: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/modules/user.module?rev=1.625&vi... Find our when a particular line was added: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/modules/user.module?view=annotat... And a lof of other possibilities. This does a lot more than you can do with a mere tarball if you really want to write the Great History of Drupal. Cheers, Gerhard