Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.once the new release system goes live, and releases are real nodes (http://drupal.org/node/83339), it'd be nice to clean up the downloads listed on the project node itself. instead of a single "download default release" link (which will be a pain for maintainers to keep updated in its current form), we should provide some kind of table of download from various branches of interest.
i'm imagining rows for each version of core compatibility, and columns with specific downloads.
either the table should have separate columns for real releases (from tags) and snapshots (from branches), or those should be in separate tables entirely. we don't want this table to get too confusing, so it'd be nice to keep it limited. perhaps tying into the notion of the "default" branch for each compatibility term (http://drupal.org/node/89538) is necessary.
it might also be nice to have a notion of each release "series" having its own description (both a really short thing to live in this table, like "development" or "stable", and a longer blob of text that could go on the all-releases page as a header when browsing by series (see http://drupal.org/node/89537)
however, there are a few ideas floating around about what it should look like. mockups, screenshots and/or patches are most welcome. ;)
thanks,
-derek
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | project_release_table_disabled.patch.txt | 1 KB | dww |
| #10 | project_download_table.patch_4.txt | 6.76 KB | dww |
| #9 | project_download_table.patch_3.txt | 6.76 KB | dww |
| #7 | project_download_table.patch_2.txt | 6.76 KB | dww |
| #6 | project_download_table.patch_1.txt | 6.72 KB | dww |
Comments
Comment #1
dwwthe
project_release_table()in here is originally by merlinofchaos (thanks!), but has undergone a *lot* of modifications by me. in particular, it now takes advantage of the DB table from http://drupal.org/node/89538 (so you must install at least http://drupal.org/files/issues/project_release_default_version_patch_1.txt for this patch to work). not all of the functionality in the table is being used by this patch yet, but it will be soon via http://drupal.org/node/96971, and it's easier to just include all the code to generate the tables here, and then i can change the call sites via other issues where appropriate.Comment #2
dwwscreenshot attached. also, i just installed this on s.d.o for folks to play with there, too. ;)
Comment #3
merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commentedMy notes:
Remove
From the CSS. Or make it more appropriate.
Add 'Release notes' as a link to the release node because while the link already exists, it is not completely obvious it actually gives you release notes and we want to encourage people to provide release notes by pointing them out a lot.
Change the title from 'Releases' to 'Current releases'.
And since it's so easy to do, I think add another table of dev releases; I think there are those who like to stay on the bleeding edge but not necessarily using CVS, and the table is not that big; it is worth putting there.
Comment #4
merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commentedAlso perhaps change 'Operations' to 'Links' which is more appropriate in this context.
Comment #5
merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commentedIf putting dev releases in a table beneath, make it 'official' for the top and 'snapshot' for the bottom to avoid duplicates which are somewhat disconcerting.
Comment #6
dwwincorporating all of merlin's suggestions.
Comment #7
dwwmore visual nitpicks based on feedback from merlin and webchick. this is pretty close to RTBC, if you ask me. ;)
Comment #8
webchickI'll be bold. Checked over the code and it looks fine to me, and already helped nitpick the visuals, as stated. :)
Comment #9
dwwwe decided to shrink the size of the date column to give more space for the links. links are back to the same size as everything else (for now -- whenever we start adding more links, we might have to shrink it back down again).
Comment #10
dwwremoving the time from the date of the tarball, since it doesn't really add much and further complicates things.
Comment #11
dwwcommitted to DRUPAL-4-7--2.
Comment #12
dwwminor fix: don't display the table (or release links) if the project has disabled releases via the edit subtab.
Comment #13
dwwcommitted to DRUPAL-4-7--2 and installed on d.o.
Comment #14
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