[development] Core modules group

[Chris Johnson]

On 9/9/07, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 9, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
>
> >> Would it be possible for the package generation process to check for
> >> this and abort if the .info file isn't correct?
> >
> > Am I reading correctly that you just volunteered to write this patch?
>
> If you do this, be sure to fix this first:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/109181
>
> "provide feedback to owners when there are errors packaging releases"
>
> sadly, there's no mechanism right now whereby the packaging script
> can propagate errors back to the release owners.  if anything goes
> wrong, the package just doesn't get created and the release node
> remains unpublished.

Um, do we even have to worry about the packaging script?  Couldn't we
just check the correctness of the .install file at CVS check-in time?
It's possible to provide feedback at that point, and we do know which
repository the commit is being made to, as well.

Or am I missing something really obvious?

..chrisxj