[development] Core drupal.module moved to contrib site_network.module

[Moshe Weitzman]

CHANGELOG.txt

or someone could port the openID server to D6 and we'll have a great
story to tell these upgraders. interested parties should see the 4.7
version at http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/openid/?pathrev=DRUPAL-4-7--2.
james - any progress since then?

On 10/8/07, Dmitri G <dmitrig01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is drupal.org going to use it?
>
>
> On 10/8/07, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> > Hello World,
> >
> > After discussions about the state of Drupal module, it turned out that:
> >
> > - drupal module does two things: phone home to a central server and
> > distributed authentication
> > - drupal.org does not collect any information submitted with
> > drupal.module, so the phone home has no reason to live in Drupal
> > itself
> > - Drupal 6 is going to ship with OpenID which is much more secure, so
> > there is no requirement to keep shipping Drupal module with Drupal
> > (but it should be made available for users looking for an upgrade
> > path)
> > - Drupal module was misnamed, its namespace collides with built-in
> > system level functions
> >
> > So after looking at all this, it was decided that Drupal module needs
> > to go out of core. At http://drupal.org/node/178768 we discussed the
> > future and suggested names. Because all features are kept for now, the
> > new name is site_network. Anyone looking for this functionality will
> > find the project at
> http://drupal.org/project/site_network from now.
> > Andy Kirkham (aka AjK) volunteered to maintain the module and moved
> > the existing drupal.module issues to the new project.
> >
> > All-in-all I hope this improves the privacy (no useless phone-home
> > feature to explain) and security (no password tunneling) of Drupal 6.
> >
> > Gabor
> >
>
>