I sent a quick correction after I realized I missed a paste in my last post but, for some reason, that didn't make it to the list. So I'm re-posting with what I _meant_ to post in the first place. Note: I changed the topic so I don't derail the distro thread with this Moshe said: As an aside (i.e. lets not sidetrack this thread), one of the original visions of the new .info files is that their names and descriptions will be used by drupal.org project module. Thats one of the reasons we chose plain text .ini instead of PHP. I like reuse of .info files because it centralizes project metadata. We probably need some more metadata fields. Someone on the completely unrealted linux thread said:

It is sad to see this discussion side-tracked. The purpose of this discussion is NOT to debate why packagers exist (that is not what Seemant asked for), but to figure out how we can better cooperate. The world doesn't care about your opinion about packagers; whatever it is you think about them, they are not going to go away. So if you're not going to help make Drupal better for packagers, don't add noise to the discussion either. It would be a waste of time and bits. Thanks.

Michelle said (to Moshe):

This isn't a sidetrack; it's an important point. If the current project descriptions will be overwritten by the .info files, then there's no point spending time now cleaning up the text itself. There's still tagging needing to be done, but I don't want to be changing the ? project description if it's all getting wiped out soon.

Jonathan said:

It's a good point, but it really is sidetracked from the original request. Also, you're directly ignoring Dries' polite request not to add noise to the discussion (I'm not singling you out personally). This point should be a separate thread.

Excuse me? I did no such thing. This email you are quoting is from my "Documenting contribs" thread and has nothing to do with the linux distros. I certainly hope you're not suggesting the dev list be confined to one discussion thread at a time. I seriously doubt that's what Dries had in mind with his request. Michelle