On 2/13/07, Michael Favia <michael@favias.org> wrote:
possible fourth option: modules that phone home (d.o) for update status? Has this been visited and shot down for good reason? Please forgive the blatant ignorance.
That's been discussed before a bit (and even partially implemented after work by kkaeffer, killes, and merlinofchaos). But it doesn't really help determine how often to release a new version of a module, it just reduces the need for checking. I talked about checking for new modules, but that wasn't the crux of what I was trying to get at. Even if you remove "checking for new modules" from my workflow there's still the "downloading/installing new contrib" overhead that I (as a module-user) would want to pack into a small window of doing lots of updates rather than spread out over a whole month - regardless of how I'm informed of the new modules available. Regards, Greg