A user named mavimo pointed out on IRC that the release names in the XML files (http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/5.x, http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/6.x, http://updates.drupal.org/release-history/drupal/7.x) are not in a unified format. Some of the Drupal 6.x release names have lower case "drupal" instead of "Drupal" in their name.

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mavimo’s picture

mavimo commented

+1

dww’s picture

dww
we/he/they
commented
Title: Unify release names in update.module XML files » Use consistent capitalization for core releases
Project: Drupal.org infrastructure » Drupal core
Version: » 6.x-dev
Component: Other » other
Priority: Normal » Minor

If you look at http://drupal.org/node/3060/release you'll see that the releases themselves are inconsistent. The XML files for update_status are just doing their job. Apparently, drumm likes to change the title to capitalize the 'D' while Gabor tends to leave it alone and use the lowercase 'd', while killes was inconsistent in his preference. I don't care at all which one we standardize on, and I don't honestly know what problem the inconsistency is causing, but in general, I'd be in favor of being consistent. Easiest would be to leave it "drupal" since that's what the system would do automatically if the super-users creating these release nodes weren't editing the title field (which normal users aren't even allowed to do), although historical practice from before the release system was to use capital (presumably since "Drupal" is a proper-noun).

/me shrugs.

mdupont’s picture

mdupont
Primary language French
Location Switzerland
commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

No traction on this issue and all recent releases of D6 and D7 are using "drupal" lowercase. I guess we can close this.