Rename core's project node to "Drupal Core"

I am not sure "Drupal Core" is intuitive as a project name, I regard it too much of a jargon for insiders.

In that light, well, it is indeed calling out for some distinguished name for the core project. I'd think Mark and Leisa debated this in detail already, it would be good to tap into their mind (ask them to comment :).

Ah, I definitely like "Maintainers" much better than "Developers." The Drupal (Core) project is particularly bad this way in that the maintainer : developer/other contributor ratio is absolutely ridiculous. 1 : 1000 ?

I missed a lot of the discussion around this, but I can see the renaming being valuable from a disambiguation standpoint. Drupal is software, a community, a website, a trademark, an association, a movement, a conference, an IRC channel, a noun, an adjective, probably a verb somewhere :P, etc. "Drupal Core" (once you figure out what the heck "Drupal Core" is) makes it easier for everyone to get on the same page about what it is you're talking about. And it's a term "insiders" use an awful lot that "outsiders" remain clueless of until reading other people saying it enough times that it finally clicks.

I think it would also help the issue queue get fewer off-the-wall support requests from people who think their problem is with "Drupal" since it's a problem with some weird-ass module they downloaded with it. That's probably just wishful thinking though. ;)

Still, it'd be wonderful to have Mark/Leisa chime in about their thinking behind the wording change.

Of course, even better would be something like "Contributors to Drupal Core" Blah blah blah "And 238,792 others

Is there a feature request for some/page/with/status/for/project/contributors that I can subscribe to? ;)

righto. on the question of 'core', all the research we did indicated that people did understand what 'core' referred to, so rather than try to come up with alternative we have left it. If there's any concern we should just do a little further testing to confirm the best approach.

re: drupal developers vs maintainers. I'm happy to go with whatever you think is best here. The rationale behind this list is to expose members of the Drupal community to newbies, and to show the activity/contributions that are being made. I agree that it makes sense to link to 'active' contributors rather than people who aren't around anymore so perhaps maintainers is the right approach... another option would be to show 'latest' contributors?

at any rate, as long as we're getting a few community names and links to profiles up here, I'd be happy :)

hope that helps, let me know if there's anything more/questions etc.

Reading up on Leisa, I agree that "Drupal core" should be fine then.

Re: webchick (#6), I've created an issue for automated tracking of people based on their contributions to releases with prior practice linked at #433050: Add code to parse and aggregate CVS contributor info. Subscribe(TM) to that.

Moving to the Redesign project. Check to see who has been assigned to implement this section and the staging server it'll live on during implementation here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/37064

maintainer block says maintainers and the original title rename is #688202: Download and Extend Core page content needs to be updated from prototype