Change Pathauto's package name to "Path management"

I'm pretty opposed to abusing the module taxonomy as 'package' information. On http://drupal.org/node/231036 it's very clear:

If your module comes with other modules or is meant to be used exclusively with other modules, enter the name of the package here. If left blank, the module will be listed as 'Other'. In general, this field should only be used by large multi-module packages, or by modules meant to extend these packages, such as CCK, Views, E-Commerce, Organic Groups and the like. All other modules should leave this blank. As a guideline, four or more modules that depend on each other (or all on a single module) make a good candidate for a package. Fewer probably do not.

I agree with both of you ;)

I could see moving this to "Aliases" along with path redirect and globalredirect and perhaps a few others that all cover this general "alias" area.

If it's going to be anything (and again, I'm very anti package-abuse), I would prefer it match the corresponding module term: Path management. Since path redirect really does not do much with aliases.

What we should really be doing instead of abusing package lines in .info files is push to add tags[] to .info files and be able to browse the modules page by tags. Developer modules would have tags[] = developer, etc.

Seems like paths, pathauto should be under a main heading like seo that's what its used for.

It's not supported by core. I'm going to push for people to start using it in their own .info files in D7 because 1. core just ignores it and 2. other modules can still use this info (think of admin_menu and it's 'disable developer modules' feature).

Plus modules like http://drupal.org/project/instantfilter are way better at helping usability on the modules page rather than misusing the package information.

Pathauto is not just for SEO so I don't like that as the title.

Path management works for me.

This is still a mis-use of package information. We need to work on improving our modules page.

how about,

"Pathing", "Pathfinding" or "Paths and URLs"?

i'm suggesting all related modules to do a change to "Path and URL" package

We do have

Pathauto
Path redirect
Global redirect

That's 3 which should be used on all sites. While it's not the limit of 4...it is something.

Then there is subpath alias and perhaps one or two other lesser used modules...I think we should consider this.

I'm still very against abusing and re-purposing something for taxonomy purposes. There are solutions available (http://drupal.org/project/module_taxonomy) to allow admins to customize this information themselves. As well as good solutions to improve the modules page (http://drupal.org/project/module_filter).

will all due respect DR, and i'm a big fan of your work (and sun and others, who think the same), module_filter does not solve the problem.

mitigates, but does not solve.
in my sites, i have more than 30 categories for the modules... cause every module insists on having their own sub modules with their own categories, instead of using categories that tailor to their functionality.
and i have more than 50 modules solely in the Others package group.

the problem is the taxonomy itself, which needs a little visit from developers and logistics workers.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/97054

let me also say that standards are not just what fits on white papers.
a standard is also what a group of people consistently use for their work.

Re-titling. This is what d.o uses and therefore we should too: http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid%3A8818

good point.

subscribing to that.