On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Derek Wright <drupal@dwwright.net> wrote:

Now that you've all had a few days to play with the new toys, I
finally pulled the lever to generate the XML files that update_status
uses based on the new settings on your project nodes. So, your
changes on those settings are now "live" for the purposes of
update_status -- please be cautious and aware of the fact that when
you deselect the "supported" checkbox on a given branch, your users
will see a nice big red warning about it.

After I did this, I noticed a few modules (e.g. devel and
comment_upload) where giving me warnings since the officially
supported versions were 5.x-0.*, but i was running a 5.x-1.x-dev
(from CVS). I fixed up the settings on those two modules, so now
both 5.x-0.* and 5.x-1.* are supported, but the official releases
from 5.x-0.* are still recommended. However, other modules that use
'0' for the major version should beware, check the node/N/edit/
releases tab on your project(s), and configure things
appropriately. This is exactly the kind of edge case that the
heuristics I mentioned in a previous message couldn't handle without
human intervention.

Cheers,
-Derek (dww)

p.s. For now, these XML files are only regenerated every 6 hours, so
if you alter some project settings, then manually fetch data on the
available updates report, you won't immediately see the changes. I'd
like to see that fixed if anyone wants to help. See:
http://drupal.org/node/184418