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Request for proposals for a redesign of Drupal.org - Scope and Guidelines
Note: 4 members of the re-design team are editing in another document but will continue to update here. Please notify Kieran if you'd like to edit this document and I'll work to make sure we an incorporate your changes.
Development Guidelines:
Different requirements for different sub-sites.
drupal.org
From the wishlist Dries gathered
* A Possibility to display/entering ratings for modules shall be provided.
Ratings must be visible on the download page of the module and on module overview pages
Request for proposals for a redesign of Drupal.org - Summary section
Purpose
The Drupal community currently has a web presence that is somewhat outdated in appearance, structure and in the presentation of content. An opportunity exists to re-engineer the site to better reflect the goals of the Drupal community and incorporate the more useful features. Upon completion of the development of the site, the Drupal community will assume full responsibility for web site content maintenance and administration. All content, coding and graphics will become the sole property of the Drupal community.
Description
Read moreFront page re-design
Drupal.org has 720 000 unique visitors per month. The Drupal.org front page is viewed 1 Million times per month with 16% of pages as exits.
Drupal does not have a show case to show off our best examples from the front page. Videos of showcase sites could help to demonstrate the power of Drupal. Many Drupal service providers complain that their clients are not impressed when they come to Drupal.org.
Drupal.org does not have a workflow that leads to empowering users to take advantage of the community.
* We do not encourage users to sign-up for a Drupal.org account
IRC Meeting: Outline for Drupal.org redesign plan for submission next week
Hello, I have received a template for a re-design plan. I would like to discuss the outline of that plan and get some help taking on specific sections of the re-design plan for submission to the Drupal association next week.
We will meet using IRC in #drupal-redesign
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State of the issue queue
The past two-three weeks I've spent a lot of time in the Drupal 6 issue queue. This involved a mixture of reviewing patches I really wanted to see get into Drupal 6, writing or re-rolling some small patches for small bugs and typos, and trying to clear the issue queue as much as I could down to a manageable size. I commented on something like 160 issues in seven days, and read through many more.
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Drupal.org wishlist
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.
Read moreDrupal.org Re-design plan for the next Drupal association board meeting
**Please update this outline to be a full multi-page in-depth redesign plan for Drupal.org **
I am trying research the costs invovled in a complete redesign of Drupal.org. All Drupal related implementation would be done by volunteers from the Drupal community but we need to get estimates on what it would cost to get the following deliverables:
Deliverables would include:
1) Audience research analysis, basically a report to the community. Functions mapped to tasks and features.
- http://buytaert.net/drupal-org-wishlist
2) Concept for the site - Drupal infrastructure applications
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Handbook landing page redesign
With the addition of the new Getting Started guide, we really ought to redesign the http://drupal.org/handbooks landing page to draw attention to it, as well as re-organize things so it's a little less intimidating. Let's brainstorm ways this can happen! What things can we do to improve this page?
Read moreModule ratings, popularity, and recommendations
Here is a thread about module statistics usage: http://drupal.org/node/165380
Paul Resnick and his graduate students from the University of Michigan have been working on something called pivot blocks and double pivot blocks.
http://drupal.org/project/pivots for the module
http://pivots.cms.si.umich.edu/ for a demo.
Redesigning Drupal documentation
Steven Peck, head of the Drupal documentation team has suggested a redesign. I am going to suggest that we attempt to implement this redesign using the new book module in Drupal 6 in Barcelona. Let me know if you are interested in doing this either during the session or remotely.
- Getting Started *
- Project and features
- Before you start
- Drupal 6
+- Installation etc - Drupal 5
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- Installation etc
- Drupal 4.7
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- This will contain many of the older pages that aren't getting unpublished.
-Concepts
- This will contain many of the older pages that aren't getting unpublished.
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- Collected articles etc.
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HowTos and Snippets*
- HowTos
What do we want to know from AWSTAT?
Hi, I have been given access to AWSTATs? There is a lot of raw data. What questions do we want to answer that will help in the re-design of Drupal.org?
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Request for Google Analytics
With 250% growth and an extremely obvious need for change on Drupal.org, we need to assemble a plan for moving forward.
Opening up the analytics will only help professionals consult better on the design of the site moving forward. Google analytics is an excellent free platform that can be shared amongst many users.
A special email list could be started as well to funnel the reports to. Users could then subscribe to this as well.
Any design without doing this is pointless and is going to be stabbing at the dark.
Accounts: Create a google.com/analytics account.
Read moreShould Drupal.org open up usage analytics publicly?
Why Drupal.org is slow: New forum topic block and next/previous forum topic links
We are doing some slow query analysis. Turns out the database is reporting over 100 hours of slow queries due to just two features.
New forum topic block, and next/ previous forum topic links.
Read moreDrupal.org user statistics
I don't believe these include anonymous users.
3637 - 1-day unique users
9380 - 7 -day unique users 9380
21916 - 30 day unique users
154677 -All unique users
Joomla User survey
Joomla survey says who uses joomla
Some comments about the survey design
Understanding the users
1) Identify sector, what is your job, what computing knowledge do you have
These are all good questions that provide an understanding of the users.
Frequency
2) How long have you used Joomla
-Here they miss the opportunity to discover usage patterns, which are important considerations in user centered design. Designing for all day usage versus quick update usage.
Read moreDrupal.org user survey
Introduction
(To be inserted)
Section 1.
Q1. How would you describe yourself as a Drupal.org user?
- Learning developer
- Professional Drupal web developer
- Core contributor
- Personal module, theme, or profile maintainer
- Documentation team member
- Help others with support issues
- Other: [free response]
Q2. How often do you visit Drupal.org?
- Multiple times a day
- Once a day
- A few times a week
- Once a week
- Once a month or less
Q3. When you visit Drupal.org, how long do you spend on the site?
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First draft, please help to re-write answers to questions for consistency, style etc.
Read moreRejecting subscriptions - no explanation of how they will help
I formed this group to get people working on understanding the problems with Drupal.org. The idea was to do qualitative and quantitative analysis. I wanted to have some thoughtful data and a plan that could be funded for the re-design of Drupal.org.
Several of the subscriptions lately have not indicated what kinds of analysis they are willing to contribute. I don't want to see this group become a Drupal.org feature orgy.
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