Install profiles on main Download & Extend page

according to my calculations, we have 100 installation profiles in contrib. i don't think that's enough to warrant categories. there's 95 translations, and right now we're just picking some and hardlinking them on the D & E page. i think that would be fine for installation profiles until we have metrics in place that will allow us to provide some kind of programmatic ordering.

Those aren't categories. For example, wiki is an install profile - http://drupal.org/project/drupalwiki. We should pick specific profiles that are well-maintained and showcase what install profiles can do.

we've already got #861082: Non-Solr download and extend blocks for this work. i think we can close this issue.

This is *not* categories. 4 specifics need to be chosen.

(content issue)

@drumm: we did pick specific ones. as far as i can tell this work is done, and has been committed and pushed to redesign.drupal.org.

Suggestions:
* Drupal Wiki http://drupal.org/project/drupal_wiki -- was actually the first install profile ever, and actually looks to be recently maintained
* phpEdu looks to be actively using the packaging system http://drupal.org/project/phpedu_profile but is old (Feb 2010)
* OpenMedia http://drupal.org/project/openmedia
* DaNGO http://drupal.org/project/dango

Currently, because packaging still has issues, lots of people (eg. Tattler, Open Publish, Open Atrium, etc.) either don't fully utilize / update d.o. and/or actively promote offsite download links.

Another issue is that there are very limited D7 install profiles.

I am setting this to postponed. I will contact some of the offsite maintained install profiles and the people on the list above and see what roadmap / on d.o. maintenance plans are, and let them know that there will be highlighted links

@Boris Mann: note that these highlighted links will most likely *not* be hand-picked forever. i'm assuming once we get a way to provide that list via a reasonable metric, we'll switch to using that approach.

@hunmonk: Totally understand, but we're at chicken and egg, which is exactly why I think the carrot of some hand picked marketing will motivate people to put some work into this. The postponed state is "ignore this until I write about this, reach out to some people, and see who will commit to quality".

I'm handpicking some install profiles to hardcode into drupalorg-start.tpl.php as well. See #866574: Content for Get Started. I don't necessarily think they need to be the same....

That column is called "Distributions" now and has various links, similar to Themes column. Closing this one.