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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Derek, (and Tao, Chad and Adam),

You are the heroes of the community. This is a crucial part of the ecosystem
and you are improving it to continue to be the centerpiece of contribs.

I take off my turban for you ...

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>


-- 
Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
http://2bits.com
Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
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