week notes

Published: https://association.drupal.org/node/17828

published: https://association.drupal.org/node/17778

Past month(s) we all have been very busy working on Drupal 7 upgrade of our website. Below are latest updates on the project status from Joel ‘Senpai’ Farris.

Drupal 7 upgrade

Sprints

We had several sprints: at the end of October in Seattle, WA for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, and in Portland, OR at OpenSourcery’s offices (http://groups.drupal.org/node/262558), then again in early November each day at the BADcamp.There was a little bit of work accomplished at the PNWDS sprint, some good stuff relating to ApacheSolr and the project_solr module happened at the Portland sprint, and a lot of great work surrounding the last six remaining contrib modules happened at the BADcamp sprint. The Diff module has reached a stable release, as well as Machine Name. Entity Reference and Entity API are 98% release-able as well, Field Collection has no criticals left, and Materialized Views is no longer needed for drupal.org so we took it off the list.

We all have been waiting for this.. Drupal.org upgrade project is entering QA stage! Over 190 people already signed up to be A/B testers. Announcement has been updated with further instructions, make sure to check it.

In other upgrade news - the Bluecheese team got more volunteers now with new people joining last week and team's issue queue is active again!

The Project team had a lot of progress in the past 2 weeks and fixed issues like:

Last week we finished migrating companies from the old Drupal services book to the new Marketplace. We are already reviewing requests to be listed in the new section. If you want to get your company listed, please follow marketplace guidelines. We still have quite a lot of open requests, so please be patient while our volunteers are going through them. Or better.. help us make it faster by reviewing some of the requests! Find out how you can help.

We are finally back after Drupalcon and "after-Drupalcon week" with a short week notes post.

DrupalCon..

was amazing! We've had several BOF sessions, met lots of community members and had lots of productive discussions. Drupal.org office hours BOF resulted in a "Drupal 8 call to action" block on the drupal.org front page (thanks woeldiche). Notes from other BOFs will be published as updates to their relevant issues or groups on groups.drupal.org.

Marketplace

Busy times at the Drupal.org development land! During past weeks we've launched new events page on groups.drupal.org, with the help of lisarex and primerg.

Last week the COD team finished their summer marathon and launched five DrupalCon websites on the latest version of COD for Drupal 7. Find more details in this blog post by Jacob Redding. We'd like to say thank you to everyone who helped us make that happen.

During the past weeks it seems we've reached a consensus on the guidelines for the Marketplace and are going to move forward with the code implementation in the next few weeks.

For the past few months, we have been holding "Drupal.org Office Hours" on IRC. Each Monday anyone interested in contributing to Drupal.org development had a chance to talk to the team, get support and advice, generally see what we are working on. Lately we noticed that less and less people attend office hours. We would like to know what is the reason and how can we make office hours more efficient. Please fill out this short survey to let us know how we can improve!

Now to the updates.

Another 2 weeks passed and we have some updates.

Tezza is doing great job reviewing case studies together with lisarex and kwseldman. We are slowly adding more of them to the Featured section. There is always a room for more reviewers - take a look at the wiki if you'd like to help.