In the near future, installation profiles will be packaged with all of core, and whatever contributed projects they depend on. In designing exactly how this system will work, there are some unanswered questions that I'd like to get feedback from the community about. I've posted each one as a poll in the installation profile group[1] so that people can both comment and vote on the various alternatives. I also posted a summary/overview with links to the 4 polls in the forum on d.o, for potentially better visibility: http://drupal.org/node/195877 Please read that, then follow the links to each poll. I've posted analysis and explanation for the questions as the first comment on each poll, including a pretty complete list of pros vs. cons. Comments are now officially welcome. Instead of forking the discussion, please do *not* reply to this email, but comment on the appropriate poll node on g.d.o. I've already disabled comments on the summary forum post on d.o. In a week or so, I'm going to make my decisions and start implementing things, at which point I'll close the polls (both figuratively and literally). So speak now or forever hold your peace. ;) Thanks, -Derek (dww) [1] http://groups.drupal.org/distributions