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BDD Testing Community Demo
The BDD testing team has been working to make the transition from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 (and all future improvements) as smooth as possbible. Join us on Monday, September 10 at 7am PDT / 10am EDT for a demonstration of just a few of over 100 feature tests, learn how you can get involved, and pick up great ideas for quality assurance for your own client projects!
The demo will last no more than 30 minutes with an additional half-hour for questions and answers.
A brief background on BDD:
- What it is
- How it can be used, and how it is being used on Drupal.org
Documentation Team Leadership Change
A little over 18 months ago, Ariane K. and I started our tenure as co-leaders of the Drupal Documentation Team. We spent a lot of time working on organization, design, processes, and tools to make it easier for Drupalists to contribute to and use Drupal documentation, and I’m very proud of the many improvements we were able to make (of course, with the help of lots of other contributors!) during that time.
Read moreDocumentation Office Hours July 17
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Read moreDocumentation Office Hours July 10 (note non-standard date!)
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Multi-lingual documentation?
Can the Community Media documentation be translated to other languages? Once the Comminuty Media theme is ready for its first official release I'm thinking of maybe translating some documentation to Swedish, for other Swedish channels to use Drupal and Community Media.
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Wanted: Feedback for docs writers
The other day at the docs office hours, it occured to me that there really is no good way of knowing how documentation you put in the docs wiki is received. I didn't think much more about it then, but the thought has grown and I now think it's a serious problem.
(When I say "feedback" I don't necessarily mean written statements, but also things like usage statistics.)
Feedback serves two really important purposes:
- It's a motivator. When you see that things you created (or participated in creating) are being used, it's encouraging.
Documentation Office Hours June 19
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- Writing and editing Drupal documentation -- you can help!
- Improving infrastructure and tools for Drupal documentation -- your input is valuable!
- Volunteering and recruiting volunteers for Drupal Documentation
Drupal Docs "merit badge"?
This idea has been batted about recently a bit in IRC and in-person discussions, but I thought I'd post it here:
Should we create a "Drupal Documentation Merit Badge"?
Read moreOfficial Docs/Help System: Get ready for a grant?
The Drupal Association has just announced Community Cultivation Grants for 2012, and I'd like to get the Documentation Team ready to apply for one at the end of the summer. If you're a Drupal site builder or a module developer, you can help!! Here's the plan:
Read moreBook "Drupal 7 – the Essentials" being added to the community wiki
I am very happy to announce that I (finally!) am publishing my book Drupal 7 – the Essentials in the documentation section on drupal.org!
The book covers basic and advanced site building with Drupal core, Views, Flag, Rules, Page manager and Panels. So far only "part A" (74 of 324 pages) are published, but I hope to finish it before the end of the week.
If you're curious, check out http://drupal.org/node/1576418.
Read moreDocumentation Office Hours June 5
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Read moreGSoC student working on Help/Curated Docs system!
I'm pleased to announce that Hungarian student Gergely Kurucz (temaruk) has been selected as a 2012 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student for Drupal! His project is to build the Help Topic and Map entities for the Help and Curated/Official Documentation System. Gergely works with fellow Hungarian Tamás Demeter-Haludka (Yorirou), who built the Conditional Text module (another building block for the Help/Docs system) in last year's GSoC, so hopefully between Gergely, myself as the "official" mentor, and Tamás as the "nearby" unofficial mentor, we'll see great progress this summer.
Read moreDocumentation Office Hours May 15
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Read moreDocumentation Office Hours 1 May
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Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7 Sprint!
The week of April 23 - April 27, the Drupal Association is sponsoring a sprint, hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, to upgrade Drupal.org from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7!
The sprint will be mainly focused on the following areas, and the following attendees will be there:
Read moreDocumentation Office Hours 17 April
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Read moreDocumentation Office Hours 10 April
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Read moreCall for Community Docs Moderator volunteers
UPDATE July 2012: If you want to be a Community Documentation Moderator, you can get started without reading this whole discussion! The instructions are now at:
http://drupal.org/node/1588928
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Read moreNew time(s) for office hours?
I'm thinking of changing the time for the weekly Docs Office Hours.
Motivations and considerations:
- It seems like a lot of our office hours participants lately are in Europe, and 1pm West Coast US time is pretty late for them. (Probably not for Asian participants either, and there have been a smattering of folks especially from India who have been interested.)
- It doesn't work well for some North American folks either, just by chance (like they happen to have a meeting at 1pm Tuesdays every week).
Docs Team Reboot: Focus on documentation infrastructure again!
Hello wonderful members of the Drupal Documentation Team!
Remember last fall, when we went through an amazing process of discussion and refinement for the Community Docs redesign? Putting aside what happened immediately afterwards (how long it took to get it actually deployed), do you remember how great it was when it was deployed finally? If not, take a look at a Community Documentation page, such as:
http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/dashboard
