many of us have been wishing there was a better way for project maintainers to identify and distribute releases of their contributions on drupal.org. the current system of nightly tarballs generated automatically, with everything being called simply "<project_name>-4.7.0" (and relying on a date to have any idea what "version" it is) leaves a lot to be desired... instead of just complaining about it, killes, nedjo, merlinofchaos, and myself have been figuring out how it should really work. in particular, merlin and i had a good debate on IRC today (which some other folks added to), and we're converging on a design we think handles all the concerns, and yet would be relatively easy to achieve. it's getting to the point that we just need the proverbial +1 from some key folks (namely killes and/or dries) so we don't start writing code for something that won't be put into action. request for comments (RFC): http://drupal.org/node/58066 if you ever wanted to see this stuff get better, now's your chance to share your ideas/concerns. please just post into that issue, no need for a big thread on this mailing list. thanks! -derek (dww)