[documentation] Here comes the Features page! :)

[Gábor Hojtsy]

Hey,

Up until earlier yesterday, the http://drupal.org/features page was
managed by an obscure and old module called feature, which is used by
less the 30 sites reporting back:
http://drupal.org/project/usage/feature The permissions for editing
this page were limited, so you could not get there, and even if you
could, the module restricted you to its custom categories support (no,
not taxonomy), and feature items in categories, which could only have
some textual intro, an image link and a read more link. All managed in
custom code stored in custom tables. Not totally flexible. This data
was all used to generate what looks like very dated markup such as

 <div style="font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:
15px;"><p>General features</p></div>

for a header and

 <i>Collaborative Book</i> - Our unique collaborative book feature
lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to
contribute content.<div align="right"><a href="node/284">detailed
information</a>&nbsp;

for explanation. Ouch. It also linked to Drupal 4.3 screenshots as
showcase. Due to the permissions and architecture limitations, this
was deadly outdated. It also did not support versioning of the feature
list, only supported plain text input in feature descriptions, no
formatting whatsoever, etc.

So what happened yesterday, is that this module was finally retired from
drupal.org, and its generated page was moved into the node which made
it possible to have it in the handbook, but magically did not contain
any text before. Now the content is up for the doc team, and you
should be able to run with it and update / spice it up, clean out old
markup, etc. Please do!

Gábor