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

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Bèr Kessels wrote:

Note: I am not very much interested in installers/updaters since I 
mostly only run one site at a time.

> Questions: 
> Would capistrano serve as a default Drupal install/update framework? Are we 
> afraid of Ruby (as in: not rails, but the language)? Do we want to depend on 
> a third party tool for our deployment framework?

I don't think I'd use a tool written in "yet another language".

> Personal my answers are: yes, no, yes. But I'd like to hear if this can even 
> be considered for core :)

That's IMO a rather clear case of "Forget it".

Cheers,
	Gerhard