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Upgrade drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6 project issues lists:

http://drupal.org/node/362117

Sprint announcement from Dries Buytaert:

http://drupal.org/node/356002

hi all,

posted this on the dev list, adding it here in case some in this group don't watch the dev list.

i've been watching the inspiring work to integrate testing patches against HEAD at testing.drupal.org, and wondering if it would be useful/possible/desirable to have benchmarking integrated into d.o. as well?

like the testing stuff, but maybe opt-in?

i'd be willing to do some dev/sysadmin work, and i'd hope there would be enough dev resources, but we'd need some hardware dedicated to it.

thoughts? suggestions? flames?

cheers
justin

A user recently noticed there are no copyrights or TOS at d.o. Interested folks might want to weigh on on the Drupal webmaster's issue for Clarify Copyright status of content on Drupal.org's website.

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

The slogan proposal wiki and no follow discussions got me thinking about more seo stuff related to Drupal.org

One big thing that's missing is a meta description tag. This doesn't affect ranking so much any more, but it's often used in results listings and sometimes relevancy. It's also a good place to put all the buzzwords we might not want to stuff into a slogan.

Here's a first run:

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See this node http://groups.drupal.org/node/7191 titled "Project Quality Metrics" in the Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association group. It looks like all that activity should either be here, or all the activity intended for this group should be there, i.e. duplicate efforts.

I asked more than 1,000 existing Drupal users (not Drupal prospects) what they would like to see improved on drupal.org. A prioritized wish list is provided below:

More ideas and suggestions might be available in the comments of http://buytaert.net/drupal-org-wishlist.

Attached is potential information architecture redesign based along functional/user persona lines. This needs work, however it's one method of organizing content.

Whether or not these are actual different sites or not remains to be seen... there are pros (could install specific tools for each site -- ex diff module on the docs site, project module on the dev site) and cons (link rot o-plenty, lack of cohesive search) to both.

Anyone´s knows what´s the module used to get these < ahref="http://drupal.org/node/63589">feeds?

ie:
http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml
http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0/feed

There are different formats of the feed...

Thanks!

Rosamunda