Simplify composer.json

Created on 20 October 2024, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Since we recently updated the d.o-Project-node's summary field for the project browser initiative , we should update the description field in composer.json too.

For the sake of maintaining fewer lines of code, we can also remove some fields from composer.json, because the Drupal.org Composer Service (façade) a.k.a. project_composer rewrites the following fields which are currently defined in feedback's composer.json...

  1. type: it will be set to drupal-module because the d.o-Project-node type is project_module
  2. keywords: it will be set to match the d.o-Project-node categories
  3. license: it will be set to GPL-2.0-or-later, because all projects hosted on d.o must have this license
  4. homepage: it will be set to the d.o-Project-node URL
  5. support/source: it will be set to the URL of the project on git.drupalcode.org

For more information, see the following project_composer code: _project_composer_build_component_metadata(), project_composer_get_component_json(), and _project_composer_release_metadata().

Note that project_composer also rewrites the name, but it is one of the few required fields in composer.json, so if someone happens to clone the module, it is nice to have it set, so that Composer doesn't get upset.

We can also get rid of minimum-stability, because we don't depend on anything with that stability.

We can also get rid of require, because it is empty.

Proposed resolution

  1. Update the description field in composer.json
  2. Remove the type, keywords, license, homepage, minimum-stability, support/source, and require fields in composer.json

Remaining tasks

  1. Write a merge request
  2. Commit

User interface changes

None.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

Feature request
Status

Active

Version

3.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇨🇦Canada mparker17 UTC-4

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