[drupal-docs] Why we decided to add reference to the drupal handbook in administration help

Kobus Myburgh ITBJDM at puknet.puk.ac.za
Thu Sep 29 06:14:40 UTC 2005


> The only thing I can think of is there might be developers who create 
> Drupal-based websites for clients but wish to take steps to hide the fact that 
> it's Drupal, for whatever reason they might have (security-by-obscurity, making 
> it so clients don't have a perception that they're getting a "canned" website, 
> trying to charge clients for something the company claims they built themselves..?).

I don't mind the administrator seeing this, but the end-user of the person's site must NEVER see this, unless the administrator puts that information in the title, footer, or somewhere else on the page.

I think there has been a discussion about this:- RSS or XML'ing the data from the handbooks directly into the modules at connect time if available? Of course a localized copy should be kept, for incase development is not live, but basically this means the following:

1. Drupal ships with version X of help documentation.
2. At connect time (setup time mostly) it connects to Drupal.org and compare help versions.
3. If new version is version Y (assuming Y follows X) then download and update the information.
4. If not, connection is deferred until next cron job or setup, or whatever time.

Regards,

Kobus





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