Maintenance
Administering the groups.drupal.org web site.
More groups fixups - self serve for bakery synching!
The last few weeks have been busy for groups.drupal.org maintenance and the work came to a head today. As always, if you notice any problems please report them (here or in irc or via the infrastructure queue).
All synch requests completed (but not all accounts synched)
With help from Michelle and the normal g.d.o admins we were able to synch all the accounts that had requested a synch the proper way. But, there's still thousands more who need help.
Bakery has better help messages and self serve!
Bug: duplicate mission statement at the bottom of the group page
It seems there is bug in groups.drupal.org: a duplicate mission statement at the bottom of the page when the groups don't use the default image for the mission (that is, an alternative image, or no image).
On the other hand, there is not problem in the groups using the default image, like for example http://groups.drupal.org/groups-drupal-org .
Examples of affected groups:
http://groups.drupal.org/australia
http://groups.drupal.org/latin-america
http://groups.drupal.org/maintenance
http://groups.drupal.org/newspapers-on-drupal
http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy
etc...
Sync request update - needs admin attention
I've spent the last few hours going through the sync requests and matching d.o to g.d.o username/emails. Someone needs to run the actual syncing since I don't have access for that. I have it down to one page and all that are left are ones with incomplete information and problems.
These all gave me an error that the email from drupal.org already belongs to another account (I did not comment on them so they are still in the queue):
http://groups.drupal.org/node/28778
http://groups.drupal.org/node/28050
http://groups.drupal.org/node/27804
http://groups.drupal.org/node/28742
Group Moderation Discussion
Peter Wolanin and I are planning to meet in #drupal-groups on Wednesday at 1PM Eastern Time for about an hour to review groups in the moderation queue. Many of these groups are easy to accept/reject because they clearly make sense or don't based on our guidelines. But some require more thought and a judgment call. This meeting has two agenda items:
- Review the guidelines for no more than 15 minutes.
URL and redirection (Latin America group)
Just a minor question on group URLs and redirects. The default URL in all generated links to the Latin America group is http://groups.drupal.org/latino . There is a redirect from http://groups.drupal.org/latin-america (which can be added to links by hand), but the suitable way would be that, on the contrary, latin-america was the default URL, and latino the redirect (to avoid breaking old links).
Nuevo administrador para grupo Chile
Como se indica en http://groups.drupal.org/node/25688, hace casi 2 meses que se ha intentado contactar a @SqyD, actual administrador de éste grupo. Lamentablemente, al parecer no hay respuesta de el.
@SqyD, si todavía estás interesado en ser administrador y tienes un plan para éste grupo, por favor confirma aquí.
Si no hay respuesta positiva hasta dentro de 2 semanas (30 de Octubre), se designará un nuevo administrador. No hay que ser un experto, solamente hay que tener interés por difundir el grupo localmente de la forma que mejor le parezca.
Another user blocked . . .
User Forex (http://groups.drupal.org/user/57308) is now blocked and his/her three spam comments were deleted.
Do you still want me to tell you when I do this, or not?
I do it for transparency, but if it's just noise to everyone, I'll stop.
on views and panels and taxonomy lists
I'm trying to have some new pages with panels which would need to have some lists of nodes filtered by taxonomy term. I noticed there is a view for panels called 'og_recent_type_term', which has a taxonomy context dropdown, which I believed I could use for that. However I'm not succeeding. Is there a way to have a taxonomy/term/xxx type pane within a panel page?
Content Type Posting Per Group
I'm sure this has been brought up and discussed before, but is there any ability to restrict the posting of particular content types to certain groups?
Specifically, I've just had a job posting to the DrupalCon Asia Pacific Organising group which was quite inappropriate. I moved it to the appropriate regional group already, but this seems like a more general problem that would be beneficial to resolve.
Nuevo administrador para grupo Mexico
Hace más de un mes estoy intentando contactar a @b_w_s, actual administrador de éste grupo. Lamentablemente no hay respuesta de el.
@b_w_s, si todavía estás interesado en ser administrador y tienes un plan para éste grupo, por favor confirma aquí.
Si no hay respuesta positiva hasta dentro de 2 semanas (1 de Octubre), se designará un nuevo administrador.
Actualizado: 2009-09-24 gracias gwolf
Nuevo administrador para grupo Ecuador
Estando de acuerdo con @calu777 hemos quedado en asignar un nuevo manager para éste grupo.
Tengo la esperanza de que el cambio sea para mejor.
BendicioneS!
Group search block is back
The group specific search feature is back. Now powered by Solr. On all standard group pages.
Unable to view other members' profiles.
Hi, I did not see this reported anywhere.
I'm no longer able to access other user profiles on gdo since the update.
I get an access denied error.
Spam Flag for Comments
The user interface needs a spam flag for comments to report spam content using the flag module http://drupal.org/project/flag
Examples of comment spam:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2240#comment-89004
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2240#comment-89165
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2240#comment-89283
I reported spam for this topic twice before and I think the process needs to be streamlined. (I reported via [General feedback] since the groups's manager does not have a contact page. http://groups.drupal.org/user/3715)
Spam filter triggered by empty comment title
I'm having problems with one of my comments to a post which is not spam and cannot see the captcha either, so I'm getting blocked. I found that leaving the title empty trigger the error, so filling the title with any text skips it. I used to fill in only the body of the comment as drupal fills in the title automatically. However, this is not happening now.
process for knowing who blocked/deleted whom/what
We (Josh Koenig and I, the people who respond to the "contact" tab on this site) have had an increasing number of reports recently that posts are getting deleted inappropriately.
In many cases the block is appropriate, but it takes a lot of time and effort to understand what happened. I'd rather have some more transparency on this. Here are some possible ideas of how we could get a better "paper trail" for this. These are not set in stone, so I would love suggestions and more ideas:
- Use something like Journal to record a lot of actions.
User blocked . . .
Just an FYI that I blocked this user for spam: http://groups.drupal.org/user/42121 (and I deleted the spam/advertising comment).
Archivar el grupo Latin America
En 3 años la actividad de este grupo a sido mínima y en vista de que estamos buscando congregar antes que dividir, opino que:
1. este grupo sea archivado: nadie más pueda unirse y el mensaje de bienvenida dirija a los visitantes al grupo Spanish
2. a los post se les agregue el tag: Latin America, para hacer referencia al grupo donde estaban
3. Se invite a los miembros de este grupo a unirse al grupo [[http://groups.drupal.org/spanish|Spanish]]
¿Cómo crear mensajes de bienvenida a un grupo?
Los grupos han de tener dos tipos de mensaje de bienvenida: uno para la página principal del grupo y otro para recibir a cada nuevo miembro con un mensaje amable y útil.
Drupalcamp Atlanta announcement on front page...
Hello,
I'm not sure what the protocol is, but wanted to see about promoting this post http://groups.drupal.org/node/24432 to the front page of g.d.o. Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks,
Dave
Administering the groups.drupal.org web site.
