hello world, drupal.org infrastructure can now be used to host installation profiles: 1) there's a "/contributions/profiles" directory in the contrib repo. http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/profiles/ README.txt?view=markup 2) there's a new Project type, called "Installation profiles": http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles two critical points i wrote in the README.txt: a) "At this time, only files ending in .profile or .txt are allowed to be committed, since installation profile maintainers should *NOT* include the code of the modules that are enabled by their profiles." b) "In the future, we will have a system where a file in each installation profile directory will define what versions of Drupal core and each contrib module should be packaged with the profile, and the packaging script will generate a single download-able tarball of all the code, and the installation profile. Until that time, the downloadable package for installation profile projects will just contain the .profile and .txt files." it's likely that somewhere at OSCMS '07 @ Yahoo, a discussion will break out about this topic, including: - what to name the "packaged collection of a profile, core, and all its contrib modules"? - how installation profile maintainers specify what modules (and versions!) to package with their profile - etc, etc. people who care about this debate are encouraged to participate here: http://groups.drupal.org/distributions for example: http://groups.drupal.org/node/2164 http://groups.drupal.org/node/2163 http://groups.drupal.org/node/3086 ... cheers, -derek (dww)