I would like to see an option to turn on/off release dates for stable modules. Currently core update module does not show the release date for stable modules. It is an useful information for me. I would like to check the module (check the issue queue, see the changes in dev release, run coder to check code quality, etc) if it does not have a new release after given time.

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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I'm not sure what you mean by release date of stable modules. I'm not sure if it's because I use the CVS deploy module (http://drupal.org/project/cvs_deploy), but I see the dates on all the current and available releases.

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This is from a theme function: theme_update_report().

A) Feel free to alter this function however you want to change the appearance of the update report on your site.

B) Since it's already inside the theme function, there's no way for update_advanced to alter this, anyway.

Hence, "won't fix".

Feel free to move this to D7 core with a patch if you think the default theme function should include the date. I'm not convinced, but it's not just up to me to make that decision for core.

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that theme function have 200 rows (which simply means that it is not a candidate for a maintainable theme override)

maybe we could add an error_level check there for D7. When site is in development stage then display the dates. Does it make sense? I am not sure. I hoped for an easy feature for update_advanced..

   $error_level = variable_get('error_level', 2);
..
    if (($project['install_type'] == 'dev' || $error_level > 0) && !empty($project['datestamp'])) {
      $row .= ' <span class="version-date">('. format_date($project['datestamp'], 'custom', 'Y-M-d') .')</span>';
    }
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As I said, feel free to open issues against D7 to improve this theme function, split it up, whatever. But, there's no way to fix this from update_advanced.