Maintenance

Per Moshe in post http://groups.drupal.org/node/20725#comment-75055 "I think some static FAQ pages and such are perfectly reasonable and much needed. I don't think anyone is married to the current homepage for that matter. Please do forge ahead."

And with that the topic is raised.
What benefit can we gain from having front-page links to static content on GDO? Currently all we have is a "about this site" link at the bottom of every page. Beyond that, all pages are reached only if you enter through a group or a search result.

For the last couple of days, http://groups.drupal.org/unread has been showing duplicate posts for me. As far as I can tell, it shows a post one time for each group it is in that I am a member of. That is, if a post is in 10 groups and I am a member of 3 of those groups, I see the post listed 3 times.

Michelle

Finally, I have publically posted a version of this site running on Drupal6. Some basics:

• Site: http://groupsbeta.drupal.org
• HTTP Auth: user=drupal, pass=drupal (protects site from search crawlers)
• Drupal login: Use your regular groups.drupal.org credentials.
• Bug reports - Please search for dupes and if none, create an issue.
• Feature requests - please don't file any now. We are focused on the upgrade.

Some notes:

1. Email has been disabled.
2. We are using a copy of groups.drupal.org DB. Feel free to mangle the content. I do testing in the Sandbox group out of habit.
3. All private content has been unpublished. We are not offerring private content on D6. We will soon post on front page about this and email all authors of private posts. You will have a chance to download your content or make it public. More info soon.
4. The job listing page will come back soon. I do hope this feature moves off of groups.drupal.org during the redesign.
5. We are using Solr powered search, and can facet by group, among other things. Thanks and respect to the apachesolr devs.
6. Panels powered group pages are gone for now. We need to finish this patch. Help wanted.

Hi all- the Google Summer of Code mentors group (http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2009-mentors) is set to "moderated" for the group type, however, when people who aren't members visit the page they don't receive an option of joining (instead they get a 404 access denied error). Am I missing something? Is it not possible to have a g.d.o group both open to applications to join and keep it private? If not I'll simply put up a post on the soc group and ask people to e-mail me to join.

Can groups have feeds for their jobs, please?

KEJN0X: I'm trying to post an update & addition to a discussion via http://groups.drupal.org/node/18329/edit but, in pressing preview, it's causing the seemingly-fatal error quote[The spam filter that is installed on this site is currently not available. Per the site's policy, we are unable to accept new submissions until that problem is resolved. Please try resubmitting the form in a couple minutes.]; if I remove one of the tables in the content (specifically the new table labeled KEJ440), AND if I remove everything but this table, the error goes away & I can preview fine.

I just updated the following modules to their latest D5 releases. Please report any odd behavior.

• cck
• date
• calendar
• signup
• link
• token

I am working on the D6 upgrade for groups.drupal.org. At this point, it looks like the only stumbling block is panels for the custom group pages. If I can get panels and og_panels working for D6, I will deploy them in the upgrade. If not, we will temporarily lose that nice feature. I know, I know - this really really really sucks. No matter how many 'really' you add on there, I agree. But the fact remains that we are 50 weeks past the release of Drupal6 and Panels is at 6.x-2.0-alpha3 according to its project page. If this news upsets you, please grab a shovel and work the panels issue queue however you can. Help reproduce bugs or close down unreproducible ones. Help write patches, review patches, write docs, write unit tests, etc.

My timeframe for this D6 upgrade is within 2 weeks.