Historically Commons has used the Commons release project to track usage statistics of Commons.

We can track usage statistics against the main Commons project as long as it has a release of some kind (even one that does not contained a packaged distribution) and the proper information in the feature module's info files. This is even easier to provide now that #779476: Remove commit restrictions for installation profiles is fixed.

Also, Commons_release unsets update status information for contributed projects included with Commons with has 2 negative effects:
- Site admins aren't notified of new versions of the contrib projects, including security releases
- Sites running Commons do not report usage data to the underyling contrib projects. For example: OG Features would appear to be running on ~98 sites, but in fact is a dependency for all Commons 2.x sites, of which there are several times that number.

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ezra-g’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

We should actually uninstall commons_release, not just remove it from the codebase.

ezra-g’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review
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Here's a revised patch.

ezra-g’s picture

Status: Needs review » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.