Quoting "blogdiva@culturekitchen.com" <blogdiva@culturekitchen.com>:
Earnie,
This has nothing to do with proper grammar. This has all to do with the fact that PROFILE has a legacy in Drupal that points to tools for managing PEOPLE'S PERSONAL INFORMATION.
I understand the misfortune of a module named profile is the point of this thread. That module is relative only to user information. In order to make it clear to everyone looking at Drupal it needs renamed to User Profile because the word profile is too vague and has many connotations to properly denote the meaning of the module.
When I search for more information on PROFILE at Drupal, I get 99% of discussions about how to deal with people's personal information and then this completely random "PROFILES", which is just about special installations, aka distributions.
The word profile used in the context of packaging information really makes sense.
It's confusing and, quite frankly it looks like sloppy road mapping of the product.
Not when the proper context is given for the word. The product can take on different profiles merely by changing a default value, theme, or module setting. I do not disagree that within Drupal the use of the word profile is confusing. But only because the context for profile isn't given for one module named profile. Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/