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By subakva on
As a drupal site admin, I'd like to receive an email every time there is a release of a new version of drupal. I've been looking around the site, but I can't find anything that serves this purpose.
Here's what I've found:
Drupal Newsletter - A quarterly newsletter about events in the drupal world. While this may incidentally include release announcements, it is not sent out when the announcement is made. The latest newsletter, for example, mentions that 4 beta releases have been made for Drupal 4.7, but doesn't list the 4.6.5 release in December.
Security announcements - Lists any security-related announcements about Drupal. This is great; I get the security announcements when they happen and can decide whether I need to take any action.
Mailing Lists - A variety of relatively high-traffic discussion lists.
News and announcements - Forum for news and announcements. This contains the announcements for official releases as sticky items, but it contains garbage that I don't want to sort through, and doesn't contain beta release announcements. I could add that feed to my newsreader, but it includes items I don't want and, really, I'd prefer an email notice.
I'd like to see a Drupal Releases list, which is sent every time a new release of drupal is made. It should include an overview, a list of bugs that were fixed, and a list of any security vulnerabilities that were patched.
If this already exists in some form, please let me know where to find it. If it doesn't exist, then I'd like to request it. I'm sure a lot of people would find it useful to know when releases occur without having to go to the drupal site, or to read it's news feed daily.
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I second this request.
I second this request.
So, does that mean that the
So, does that mean that the two of you are volunteering to organize and maintain the list of announcements? You have to "be" the change you desire...
The main RSS feed from the home page at http://drupal.org/rss.xml includes very few announcements - is the signal/noise on that list enough?
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Admin Access?
Yes, actually, if someone would like to give me admin access to drupal.org to configure it, I'd be more than happy to do so. Assuming it can be set up in the same manner as the Security list, the only ongoing maintenence required would be to add the 'Releases' taxonomy term to the release announcements.
Seriously, if you have any idea how I might be able to help implement this, please send me an email.
In answer to your question about the RSS feed; no, it wouldn't suit my purposes. First, the s/n isn't all that great (2:7 based on the current front page content) but, more importantly, it doesn't go to my email inbox.
Another vote here... but
Another vote here... but with a slightly modified idea.
Instead of just Drupal, why not releases of all themes/modules/etc? It seems that it would be low traffic enough.
It's not so much a question of maintenance--all this information already is exported in one form or another by the project module. It is just not aggregated into any kind of easy-to-check central location.
AFAIK the only thing that comes close is the CVS commit list, which is very high traffic.
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modules rss
http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0/feed
I use that to get notified of new modules - I'm not sure about updated ones.
The request is realistic, but requests that are not accompanied with an offer to do the work are unlikely to get anywhere.
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Issue Link
I created an issue for this a while back. It'd probably be better to discuss it there if anyone has anything else to say.
http://drupal.org/node/51828
this will soon be possible
anyone interested in this should check out and support http://drupal.org/node/77562
even though the proposal is specific to release versions for contrib, the enhancements to project.module for RSS feeds, email subscription, etc for all releases from each project node would apply to drupal core, too (since core is just another project on drupal.org, as far as the project.module is concerned).
thanks,
-derek
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