[development] who takes on drupal.module in contrib?

[Moshe Weitzman]

the module is quite self contained so it can be simply dropped from
drupal core. the only exception i'm aware of is some bits at top and
bottom of user_save() which need to move into hook_user() in
drupal.module

On 9/26/07, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dries agrees it is time to move drupal.module to contrib
> (http://drupal.org/node/66241#comment-311037), which means people will
> still be able to use the distributed authentication scheme for
> backwards compatibility with previous Drupal versions, but we would
> not need to explain why drupal.module's phone home feature collects
> personal data - for which there is actually no reason anymore, given
> that drupal.org does not collect this data for quite some time now.
>
> This means that:
>
>  - drupal.module needs a new name
>  - the module needs a maintainer in contrib
>  - it is probably in need of a little upgrade path to modify the auth
> module name for distributed authenticated users according to the name
> change
>
> The question is who is interested in keeping at least the distributed
> auth alive? As soon as the new project is created, and the initial
> code is committed, we can remove drupal.module from D6-dev, and point
> people there.
>
> This will help keep D6 more secure (by removing the outdated dist auth
> module) and would leave us with less to explain to privacy focused
> people (by removing the unused/useless phone home feature).
>
> Gabor
>