moderation & editorial

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.

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.

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:

1. Use something like Journal to record a lot of actions.

I have tried to contact the group admin of Español more than 2 weeks ago and got not answer. I have also asked several people in that group and IRC channel #drupal-es but nobody knows about him.

Finally, I've done a public announcement in that group(and all the Spanish groups) about this its irregularities: name and description are not written in English, welcome message is too short, the short url is "espa-ol" o_O! and again got not answer.

I have created the group "Spanish Documentation and Related", it is active and there is a community working around to contribute documentation in Spanish.

Some people is concerned about join the team because such group is not approved yet, may somebody please moderate that group?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, all,

When adding new posts, I seem to have lost the ability to make posts publicly visible, even in groups I manage --

The checkbox (make this post public) is gone --

Is this a new change, or did I just miss the announcement?

And if this was a choice, can it be reconsidered, or what was the rationale behind it? IMO, we lose a lot of the potential to get more people into these communities of they can't see what's going on before they join.

Just noticed 2 posts:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/23424
http://groups.drupal.org/node/23425

Does it is SPAM? may I delete them ?

• evelCuy

I just added the 'admin users' role to Litwol, since he's managing a large group and is well-known and responsible. Is that ok? What's the usual process for handing admin perms?

e.g. http://groups.drupal.org/lietuvi-kas-drupal-vertimas which seems to have few members and no content.

Should they be deleted?

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.