[drupal-devel] [feature] No obvious way to tell which release a site is running

[mathias]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/20439

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    other
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Chris Johnson
 Reported by:  Chris Johnson
 Updated by:   mathias
 Status:       patch

This make a lot sense. +1


Let's also output the release tag name somewhere in the Drupal admin
section. Maybe on admin/settings?




mathias



Previous comments:
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April 13, 2005 - 10:31 : Chris Johnson

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/releasename_core.patch (32.8 KB)

There's no easy way for a site administrator to tell which version of
Drupal software his site is running.  This is particularly a problem
when an administrator manages multiple sites at multiple hosts.  The
problem becomes even more exacerbated when the same admin only has
limited time to update the software on sites, resulting in confusion as
to just what version is running where.


While there are a lot of technical solutions to this problem, some of
which I'd like to implement, this patch is the simplest and least
invasive.  It simply adds the CVS release tag name to each file which
can take such a tag.  An admin can thus look in any file and see which
release it is.


This patch is for the core files.


A similar one will be added to a separate issue for contrib files.