Description of the need
Add more properties to the .info file to make it easier, in the long run, to find modules and themes and when a module or theme was last updated.
For example: -
- Date of the first release
- Date of this release
- The D7 module or theme name this module is based on if applicable.
- Category could be the same or similar to the Drupal Module categories
- Accessibility
- Administration
- Commerce/Advertising
- Community
- Content
- Content Access Control
- Content Display
- Database Drivers
- Decoupled
- Developer
- Drush
- E-commerce
- Education
- Evaluation/Rating
- Event
- Examples
- Features Package
- Fields
- File Management
- Filters/Editors
- Games and Amusements
- Import/Export
- JavaScript Utilities
- Location
- Media
- Mobile
- Multilingual
- Multisite
- Novelty
- Organic Groups (OG)
- Other
- Paging
- Path Management
- Performance and Scalability
- Project management
- RDF
- Rules
- Search
- Security
- SEO
- Site Navigation
- Spam Prevention
- Statistics
- Syndication
- Taxonomy
- Theme Enhancements
- Third-party Integration
- User Access & Authentication
- User Management
- Utility
- Views
Proposed solution
Add a recommended section to the .info file.
Alternatives that have been considered
Pulling the information directly from GitHub
Is there a Drupal or Backdrop contributed module that accomplishes this? Nope
Additional information
With more and more modules being converted and new modules being released it will become harder and harder for people to find the right modules, so I think implementing some solution is better than no solution, even if it's optional. I would have thought that module and theme developers would want to make their creations more findable.
Draft of feature description for Press Release (1 paragraph at most)
Backdrop now includes a new module and theme category to make finding the right module easy!
Recent comments
Thank you very, very much :)
Autocomplete Deluxe - best D7 pick autocomplete taging
It is already done, but there is not release: https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/autocomplete_deluxe I don't know what is its state.
Autocomplete Deluxe - best D7 pick autocomplete taging
Hi @opentype. Thanks for confirming it worked. It is helpful for others if you can also mark the answer using the "accept this answer" button as this will show that the question has an answer...
Page navigation also above the page content?