[development] RFC: letting modules phone home to check for new releases

[adrian rossouw]

On 18 Nov 2006, at 11:39 AM, Robert Douglass wrote:

>
> Derek, the fields you proposed look sane an unobtrusive. How,  
> though will it support the case you mentioned where the module  
> comes from a 3rd party vendor? Don't you need an XML-RPC endpoint  
> or or some other absolute URL? I know you mentioned you want to  
> avoid hardcoding these, but is it reasonable to expect that you can  
> avoid doing so?
>
I think a block that shows up for uid no 1, which lists security  
announcements, would be cool too

Kind of a security release announcement block. Even if it's just a  
little line of text in the body.


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