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Our biggest and most important current project - Drupal.org upgrade to Drupal 7
It is a huge undertaking and we will need your help! We use Drupal.org D7 tag to track all issues related to the upgrade. Check them out and feel free to jump in and help with whatever looks interesting to you.
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- Want to contribute to Drupal.org but do not know how
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Week notes 1: Beginning
Welcome to the first edition of drupal.org team weekly notes - regular updates on what is happening at the drupal.org development land, what we've been working on and how you can participate and help us make drupal.org a better place. (Actually these updates will be posted once per 2 weeks, but bi-weekly notes sounds not so cool!)
Drupal 7 upgrade
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Code standard check at the time of git commit
Was wondering if we could include pre-commit git hooks in module/theme repositories to check drupal coding standards. (Like the ones provided by http://drupal.org/project/git_hooks).
This would help in standardizing the code on d.o
The only problem I find is ... new contributors may find it irritating and hence put them off.
Thoughts???
Drupal.org Office Hours - May 7
On the week of April 23 we've launched an upgrade of Drupal.org to Drupal 7 at the sprint at Portland, Oregon. We've had a lot of progress, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Come to our regular Drupal.org office hours this week and find out how you can help upgrade Drupal.org to D7!
As usual there will be time for you to share what you're working on and get feedback/assistance.
Read moreResponsive Drupal.org: What we want in a framework
As part of the Drupal.org code sprint in Portland; Chris Ruppel, Joel Moore and myself have been discussing a new Bluecheese. A lean, tight, and admin friendly theme that lays out a framework for the future. One that would allow us to develop a mobile friendly, responsive design.
What we want
An admin friendly UI
Read moreReputation/badges system for drupal.org: proposal
Part 1. Voting system to recognize contributions/expertise
Basic functionality for this part is written - Reputation module.
Take a look at demo site. Feedback is welcome. Especially code reviews!
We define a list of types of contribution - up to 6, "+1" widgets on comments in issue queue, forums, doc pages, g.d.o posts etc. let users vote for comment and specify type of contribution they wish to recognize.
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Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7 Sprint!
The week of April 23 - April 27, the Drupal Association is sponsoring a sprint, hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, to upgrade Drupal.org from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7!
The sprint will be mainly focused on the following areas, and the following attendees will be there:
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Come to Drupal.org office hours to share what you're working on and help us come up with the weekly drupal.org hit list!
Stop by #drupal-infrastructure from 11am to 12pm Pacific Time (18:00 - 19:00 UTC).
Paying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platform
Ever wanted a place where you could simply offer to pay to get something you need in Drupal done?
Please donate to make that place. (Yes, it's using a different crowdfunding platform, one that really lacks features for coordination, but is passing on all money raised -- if we reach the minimum -- without even deducting credit card fees.)
And spread this link! http://tilt.tc/usLL Is there enough interest in community funding of Drupal software to fund the software to coordinate this-- in just a few days? Also, if you are available to work on this project in DrupalCon Denver, we've got a DrupalCon ticket for you! Or if you're interested in working on this later, contact me for that, too!
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Content sprint at DrupalCon Denver
As announced at http://denver2012.drupal.org/sprints, there will be a sprint on Friday, Mar 23rd that will focus on the new Drupal showcase content, along with a few other areas.
Ideally, we need folks that enjoy web writing, and have editorial skills and QA experience, to help review other page content. Anyone with CSS skills, or an interest in contributing code to drupal.org would be extremely welcome!
Sprinters will create the new Drupal site / distribution case study feature, evaluate and migrate the best ones. Let's also encourage the creation of new ones.
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Let Drupal.org Dashboard serve content to user by interest
Allow users to self-define by interest(s) in the Dashboard. Each checked role would trigger a block displaying feed of content appropriate to their interest. Could be documentation, or see LinClark's new article on RSS by role using microdata.
Interests (or roles) might include: New to Drupal, Developer, Site Builder, Content Editor, Web Master, etc.
Make it possible to change interests (roles), so that folks have the option to change as needed.
Quick Start Guide
I am writing one. I have only started this discussion to be able to put in the issue queue at ideascale but I've put some other things into the post there, which I will cut-and-paste back here when I'm done.
I said:
As a complete newbie, one of the most confusing things is to be reading documentation explicitly for drupal 7 and follow a link to a page which is only for drupal 6.
Read moreMentoring for all levels of Drupal Developers
Sorry this is a repeat of an issue I posted on d.o http://drupal.org/node/1464192
I was kinda fumbling around where to post it.
As @greggles suggests on the issue there are some related discussions going on http://groups.drupal.org/guilds
There are some really good ideas going on there, but I think they are moving mostly in the direction of certifications and training.
I think the idea of mentoring could maybe be approached from several different directions.
This already exists (community) but it would be cool to formalize it a bit more.
Read moreModule Performance Hit Indicator
We all know what it's like. Install a shiny new version of drupal and it's super fast and whizzy...until we start to turn modules on. It would be great if there was some kind of indicator on the site to show how much of a performance hit / gain is achieved when using a specific module. Might help weed out the performance hungry modules away from lightweight ones when trying to decide what to use.
Create a "Solutions" directory on d.o
As I build more and more sites using drupal what becomes clear is that there are a myriad of different ways to do things using a wide variety of modules. Getting that right way including the right combination of modules can sometimes be what takes the time in building a site. What would be really useful is a directory where site creators can in some fashion say what their site does and with what modules. We could go further and employ the use of "Features" to allow members to upload useful features that solve specific problems.
Ideas.drupal.org - community brainstorming tool
Goal: provide a mechanism for community to suggest ideas and evaluate community support of proposed ideas via voting.
Similar projects: brainstorm.ubuntu.com
At first stage idea gathering will be limited to Drupal.org project only, with possibility to add other projects if necessary.
Purpose
Tool aims to be a centralized place for all the brainstorming around improvements to Drupal.org. Currently idea/suggestions are scattered around various issue queues, groups, wiki pages etc, making it almost impossible to follow everything and see "big picture" of features in demand.
Read morePhoto collection of community members in various Drupal t-shirts?
The Community page of drupal.org needs more of a 'human' feel to it, and we've had so many great Drupal event t-shirts over the years (and some of us have stylish new Drupal t-shirts from renewing DA memberships).
Do you think a photo collection of community members in their t-shirts could be useful for marketing the Drupal community, and making the Community section more appealing? The community section needs some reworking, see issue http://drupal.org/node/1288470
I could make a Flickr group that anyone could add photos too (no doubt, many photos already exist!).
Thoughts?
Lisa
Read moreModule Upgrades and Core Patches Needed to Upgrade Drupal.org to D7
The aim of this discussion is to begin the early stages of talking about what modules need to be updated and while patches need to be committed to D7 core in order for the process of upgrading Drupal.org and related web properties to Drupal 7 to begin.
This is an important stage at which to identify any blockers to the upgrade because it will allow us to head off risk more effectively and find a realistic timeline for completing the upgrade.
Issue following is now live on Drupal.org!
Yay -- another victory for the Prairie Initiative and improving Drupal.org!
Drupal.org front page news:
Stop subscribing, start following
See also:
The history of how we killed "subscribe" comments on Drupal.org
People interested in this might also be interested in:
Expand "follow" functionality on Drupal.org
And while I'm dropping links, for anyone in town for BADCamp, don't forget to checkout:
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Building a Drupal.org deployment pipeline
Leading Drupal's migration from CVS to Git made something eminently clear to me (and eliza411, the migration's PM): there's a lot that's broken about how we manage, maintain, and improve drupal.org (and its subsites). Since then, I've been gradually chatting up more and more people with the idea that we could build a structured, participatory model for updating and adding new features to drupal.org. And that if we do it right, it could become a best-practice model for (Drupal) site management (open, participatory) workflows.
Read moreRoadmap: Community/support/getting involved redesign
What is the point?
To improve the 3 landing pages in the “Community”, “Support”, “Get involved area” and later, all the sub-pages which direct people in how they can get involved and be effective.
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