Just mentioning something I thought of while browsing the contrib modules:

It would be useful if the attached files for contribs had the date they were attached to the node displayed. In a lot of examples, bugs have been found, code samples to fix the bugs are posted in the comments, and sometimes, the fixes are integrated into the module, and the attachment is updated.

However, it's not always clear if a module was patched and re-uploaded following a bug fix being posted. If the date the module was attached to the contrib node is displayed, one could compare that date to the dates of the comments, and determine if the module was posted before / after certain bugfixes are mentioned in the comments, and you would be able to determine whether you still need to go in and patch it yourself.

As an alternative, making it common practice to assign release numbers to contribs would also help clear this up.

Thoughts? I know both of these suggestions would require some work to implement, but I think they would be useful changes.