Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Many modules of the Administration type are marking the modules as a part of an 'Administration' package. This modules should be in that category.
The importance of proper taxonomies should be well known to the Drupal community.
Comments
Comment #1
michelleThis is bad advice. See http://drupal.org/node/231036 for proper use of the package.
Michelle
Comment #2
dave reidYes. The package information in .info files is *not* a taxonomy system. See the link that Michelle posted in #1. If we want to make the admin/build/modules page classified by taxonomy, we should do it properly and refactor the entire page.
Comment #3
elfur commentedFrom the user's point of view, it's rather ridiculous to find ACL under Access control, Forum Access under Access control and then Taxonomy Access under other.
The first thing I do when I download certain modules is add this information to the .info files to have a reasonable sense as to where to find modules related to certain things, like the example at the beginning of this comment. Perhaps this does not apply to Admin links.
If this is not "proper usage of package" then it's a matter of setting a proper usage for package, other than me - the end user - having to live in suspense every time I download a module.
... or create a "proper" taxonomy system for the module page - because it's ridiculously cluttered atm as some .info authors are obviously using the method I'm suggesting for this module, while others aren't.
Comment #4
michelleMost modules should be in "other" and are then alphabetical. Sticking modules into made up packages makes them harder to find because you have to guess where they might be instead of simply going to "other" and scrolling down the list to the right letter.
If you want to work on improving the module page, there are issues for that. This isn't the place.
Michelle
Comment #5
dave reidI went ahead and created a module for you to use: http://drupal.org/project/module_taxonomy. You can alter which groups the modules appear in and us sticker module maintainers can stay happy too. :)
Comment #6
aaronmchalePersonally I would prefer if this module didn't show under Other, on the page linked above there is a suggested category of Access control which I feel this module would do well under.Sorry ignore the above, I posted on the wrong module, no idea how that happened haha