Drupal administration interview 1

How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator?
since last fall seriously
comfortable, admin interface second nature
fluent with it
Can rapidly configure an existing site.

How frequently do you administer your Drupal site?
Daily

How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately?
-In Drupal all day long developing sites.

Neil has requested more information about what users use Drupal for. Try out some of the questions below to help us come up with the right question.
-How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a Drupal Administrator
-Rapid deployment, flexibility or functionality, wide range of functions, speed of meeting a customers functional require
-teaching customers to use it
-know that customer will be happy with it.
-exciting dynamism community, it's crucial that there is lot of blood in the viens or stuff will get unsupported.

--Why do you use Drupal?
-13 years of non-profit web develop, revelation great to solving the problems, meets requirements not just technical solutions, a lot of the community are working in a similar space, additional requirements, on more than a technical level

--How does Drupal help the users of your Drupal site?
-they are really starting to demand it. It's going past the technical circles. What about open source, they are demanding it.
-Awareness there is costs savings to it. When they start asking for it by name you are are in a good space
-attractive for every organizer. the integration with CiviCRM, political organizers, that work with non-profits. membership on the website and participate on the website.
-get engaged on a higher level, membership, motivate, and mobilize a community.
-Very interested in building sites that provide the opportunity for community growth

Can you get to your Drupal administration pages? -- Validating question
-yes

What are some common Drupal administration tasks that you do?
-theming, don't rely on contributions except as a starting point. used to use theme edit module
-just use interface to theme or edit
-installation procedure, updating activity
-configuring menus
-establishign and configuring blocks
-code snippets in blocks, improving to show right information to the right user at the right time.
-establishing accounts, managing permissions
-administering taxonomy
-full gamut

What are some infrequent Drupal administration tasks that you do?
-limited by own technical abilities
-don't use database, can use php myadmin, can add or drop database, not doing any sort of real tuning or optimizing, that's not relying on a GuI interface

When I administrate my Drupal site, I find it is easy to? When I administer my Drupal site, I find it hard to?
-Hard: to work with regions, great new feature and gotten into far, have a lot of regions and several templates. Regions across templates. Blocks displayed on blocks admin pages. Block placement is tricky
-Hard: Creating content types is less than optimal, would like to make it easier. Flexinode is easy in 4.6. Can follow directions to edit story into posting.module? Could be in handbook.
-Hard: content import, used node import to import 1000 nodes into system. Not easy. More work on preparing the data. Moving to drupal, getting data into drupal is not super easy.
-Easy: Installation is getting easier and easier, can install and configure in minutes.
-Easy: It's now second nature.

What are some other important Drupal administration tasks that we did not cover above?
-User was having difficulty logging in and logging out. Recreating a user is a terrible things to do. Manage to delete a bunch of content. Managing users how they related to content it's a bit of a mine field.
-Really like the ability to manage permission is that a huge permissions for non-permission. Breaking free. Easy Publish didn't fly. Mambo is the permissions things. Community thing is what we talk about before.
-Make more robust. Logging in Drupal as detailed as it could be. Information about what kinds of content is popular on the site.
-Better menu editing interface
-right now I have a site with a huge number of complex menus and some for of interface where I can effect change to multiple items simultaneously or clone menus would be helpful