I am probably not the first one to think of this but

why not have a "my modules" section that shows recent updates only of the modules that a user has downloaded either by allowing a user to specify which modules he/ she uses (e.g. radio buttons) or asking the user to login before downloading a module to track which ones have been downloaded or a combination of both methods.

It would Save me a lot of sifting especially if I could signup for email updates of new releases of my branch (ie. 5.0) of the modules I use or get an RSS feed or even just see it as an option on the modules page.

Anyone else find this useful?

If so, perhaps a formal feature request is in order.

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gollyg’s picture

There was some talk about the new module release system being able to to things like this. Checkout the latest podcast at lullabot.com - you might find that someone else is thinking along the same lines

rubenk’s picture

I'll cheek it out.

rubenk’s picture

Cheek it out! :)

that's the product of using a tablet pc.

the site is here
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_28_derek_wright_and_...

dman’s picture

If I'm following the development of anything, I check it out via CVS, rather then downloading the tarball.

I put all contributed modules into a contributions directory under modules - either under root or sites.

Anytime I feel like it I can just cd to that directory and CVS update - or use the built-in cvs support of my environment - right-click winCVS or Eclipse. to update any directory just like that.

my notes on howto do this

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

rubenk’s picture

I thought about this but I like "stable" fully baked releases

Something feels funny about using CVS on a production site

dman’s picture

add -r DRUPAL-4-7 to lock your checkout into only the tagged stable versions.

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

dww’s picture

you can also do this:

cd contributions/modules/foo
cvs update -r DRUPAL-4-7--1-2

if you want the 4.7.x-1.2 release of a specific module ("foo", in this case).

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dww’s picture

http://drupal.org/node/94137 ("email subscriptions for release nodes")
http://drupal.org/node/94138 ("RSS feeds for release nodes")
http://drupal.org/node/94154 ("module page could say if new releases are available")

cheers,
-derek

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