[development] of concern to core? (was Re: Module grouping or dependencies for 4.7.0?)

[Greg Knaddison]

On 3/14/06, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
> Derek Wright wrote:
>
> >2) modules that are nearly as important as core (for example,
> >   project.module -- there were numerous emails on this list about
> >   critical bugs in project holding up the 4.7 release, etc)
> >
> >
>
> This is only true because not having project module up to date will make
> it impossible to update drupal.org which in turn will not allow us to
> test the current Drupal code base there.
>
> >is project.module just a special case because it's in use on
> >drupal.org?
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> >  are there any other modules that belong in the
> >nearly-as-important-as-core category?
> >
>
> cvs.module, list.module, simplenews.module.
>

There is this list in the handbook of modules used on Drupal.org
http://drupal.org/node/27367  I imagine that bugs in some of these
would hold the

While it may not be kept 100% up to date or the transition to 4.7 may
include a plan to replace some of the modules, that list is a good
indicator of modules that are important to Drupal.org.

Greg