-----Original Message----- From: Dries Buytaert [mailto:dries.buytaert@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:50 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Download statistics for core
It was suggested that, on clean Drupal installations, we automatically enable the aggregator.module, that we subscribe it to the 'Drupal security announcement' feed, and that we show a 'Drupal security announcement' block on some or all administration pages. This might be a simple but effective step towards a better notification mechanism.
This is a GREAT idea. It's worth noting that most other CMS systems, including WordPress, do this in their administration sections. The only trick, I think, is Aggregator.module's dependence on cron. Until a user configures that bit of the system, they won't get any security announcements. --Jeff