Robert Douglass schrieb:
This is a good idea and should be cross posted to the infrastructure list.
This has already been discussed quite a bit on infrastructure. e.g. http://lists.drupal.org/private/infrastructure/2006-November/007055.html http://lists.drupal.org/private/infrastructure/2006-November/007079.html or a little summery on a proposal at http://groups.drupal.org/node/2163 So there is some kind of consesus that, generally, installation profiles should be hosted on drupal.org. And there seem to be some voices in favor of improving the cvs packaging script to be capable of packaging the contrib modules that a distribution needs together with the install profile and maybe drupal core, in which I also am in favor of. See [1] for details. However, I agree with Boris Mann here: If there are some install profiles, the hosting requirements on drupal.org should be created. But install profiles should come first. So what I propose as a very simple first step is to create a new top level cvs directory for "install profiles", to foster collaboration on some first profiles. There is no need for project.module support for these right now as there is nothing that's suitable for an enduser available at the moment. If then some first install profiles (e.g. a "blogger" profile, a "collaboration" profile or a "devel" profile) are in some kind of alpha or beta state, we should definitly approach the package script improvements and adding a new top level project taxonomy term for distributions (and thus allowing the creation of public, browseable releases). [1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/2163
Jakub Suchy wrote:
Hi, is it possible to create new project type on Drupal.org - installation profile? Some translators have created own installation profiles for their translation, blogger installation profile is proposed for Google SoC. Even people would IMHO notice, that something that installation profiles exist and the absolutely greatest thing would be to be able to just manage CVS which will automatically pack the profile into profile.tar.gz.
Jakub http://www.drupal.cz
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