[development] New functionality on project nodes installed on d.o

[Nancy Wichmann]

Wow, Derek most of this sounds good.  It would have saved me some problems
with Glossary which I finally got fixed a week or two ago.

The only part I'm not crazy about is marking -dev's in red ("to warn people
not to download them for real sites").  With the number of modules that
never produce official releases, I think this is going to cause a bit of
heartburn and confusion in the community.  But we'll see how it goes.  I'm
assuming this is a CSS thing, so it will be easy to change if it does.

Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org
[mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]On Behalf Of Derek Wright
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:38 AM
To: Development
Subject: [development] New functionality on project nodes installed on d.o

If you own any project nodes on d.o please read this...

I just finished up a patch[1] that was holding up a string of
improvements to project nodes.  The most important new functionality
is that you now have more fine grained control over what releases are
displayed on your project nodes[2].

First of all, for each version of core, you now have separate
controls for every major version, where you can specify if that core/
major combination is supported, and if you want a dev snapshot
displayed for it or not.  Then, if you've got multiple major versions
for the same version of core, you get a radio to select which version
is recommended.

Update status (both in D6 core and D5 contrib) already knows about
all of this, it just hasn't been visible on d.o yet.  So, previously,
when you changed the "recommended version", update status would
immediately warn users they should upgrade, which caused much
confusion and hassle.  Now, update status will only warn users to
upgrade once you uncheck the "supported" checkbox.  So, you can have
both 5.x-2.* and 5.x-1.* supported, and 5.x-2.* recommended, and
update status won't bother people still running 5.x-1.*.  However,
say you ship a 5.x-3.*, and decide to drop support for 5.x-1.*, you
can uncheck the box and update status will tell them to upgrade.

Now, all it means when you mark a given major version "recommended"
is a) it's displayed as such on the project nodes, b) update status
says so in its status report, and c) it's the version that'll be
shown in the project teaser in the project browsing pages.

Furthermore, recommended releases are now colored green on the
project nodes and project browsing pages, whereas -dev snapshots are
always marked as red (to warn people not to download them for real
sites).

I also fixed a caching bug where sometimes the release tables would
have "edit" links in them which most users would get permission
denied on, while other tables wouldn't have edit links for users who
could use them.

Finally, I fixed a wonky bug that would require visiting and saving
the "releases" subtab of the edit tab on your project node whenever
you added a new release for a whole new version of core.

Enjoy,
-Derek (dww)

p.s. Thanks to Tao (starbow) for some of the cool jQuery goodness on
that new edit/releases UI.

p.p.s. Thanks to Chad (hunmonk) and Adam (aclight) for reviewing and
testing this stuff.

[1] http://drupal.org/node/176776
[2] http://drupal.org/node/203313