[documentation] Problem With One of the Main CVS Pages

[Angela Byron]

On 19-Nov-08, at 7:04 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:

>> it is very standard practice for people jumping into a new open  
>> source
>> project to want to see HEAD (or trunk or whatever) or for people's  
>> first
>> interest in CVS is to see "what's coming". Most people that are  
>> interested
>> in checking out a specific version (like a stable version) are more  
>> advanced
>> or experienced with CVS already. Someone's first jump into CVS is  
>> not going
>> to be doing so in an effort to make upgrading easier.
>
> Maybe, but this is Drupal.  The installer in Drupal7 gets completely
> broken on a pretty regular basis, and that's not a new thing - things
> like that often happen in HEAD.

Hey, hey, hey! Quit spreading FUD! :P

Yes, the installer was broken for four hours last weekend. That's the  
first time the installer (or anything else on the major "critical  
path", for that matter) has been broken in HEAD since... a really long  
time. Thanks to automated testing, anything we have tests for is  
guaranteed to continue to stay working, and testing.drupal.org now  
ensures that even installer breakage never happens again. :)

That said, I agree with you on everything else. ;) +1 for making this  
page conform to user expectations.

-Angie