Maintenance

Have you all (the GDO maintainers) considered implementing a spam flagging feature? My thinking is that average users could flag posts/comments they consider to be spam, which would then go into an incident queue where maintainers can agree and remove post or disagree and let it be.

E.g., I think this is spam http://groups.drupal.org/node/7732#comment-38002

Another g.d.o member tried posting updates to Contributed modules status - version 6.x and, when he encountered some spam filter, was not able to post his updates. He stated that he tried for over an hour.

He emailed me for help, I attempted posting the updates, and was unable to do so because of the following error message:

i have upgraded OG today. There were some major under the hood changes, so please watch out for bugs.

As part of the new features, I disabled email notifications for job posts. This is based on feedback that they were "taking over my group.". If a group admin wants to deemphasize them in the web presentation, she may do so using the new group Pages feature. I will be adding the ability for a group admin to remove arbitrary content types from the list of 'Create' links in the group block. That would effectively remove 'job' or other content types from the group.

Hello, all,

I've spent nearly an hour googling and looking through various threads, and I feel like I'm missing something obvious here --

But, is search within groups working?

For example, when I search within the Drupal in Education group for the word "trombone" I get a lot of false hits -- bug in views

On a test site, I have had similarly inaccurate results when creating searches within views and exposing the Search: Index filter --

I hope this is the right place to post.

...prefixing the feed URL like so: [username]:[password]@[url] (omit the brackets). Note that you will want to keep your subscription private if you use web based reader like Bloglines or My Yahoo.

The Bloglines and My Yahoo links are not working (they appear as links but are not clickable).

groups.drupal.org now features Pages, a major new feature added this week. Group admins now have much more control over the presentation of their group’s content. You may see this feature in action by clicking on the tabs in the redesigned Drupal Dojo group, or Los Angeles or SoC 2008. To learn how this customization was achieved, watch this screencast (blip.tv) by Josh Koenig.

Group admins may add as many custom Pages as they desire to their group. The admin may choose her own page layout, and may place whatever content she wishes into each region of the page. If this sounds like Panels module to you, then pat yourself on the back. This feature is a happy integration between Organic Groups module and the Panels module.

Group admins are encouraged to build out their groups using Pages (see screencast), and report bugs or feature requests in the groups.drupal.org group.

Many thanks to Earl Miles for Panels and Views, and to Josh Koenig for the screencast, and to the Post Carbon Institute for funding og_panels module.

I enabled javascript_aggregator module in an attempt to improve our YSlow score here. Please report any js related issues here.

This morning, a company looking to hire a Drupal developer posted to two groups, including the Contributed Module Status group that I manage.

Although I have VERY CLEAR language in the group's description that job postings are NOT allowed per the following...

(NOTE: This group is NOT for job postings and any posted here will be removed. It is suggested that you place your job postings in the Consulting and Business group. Repeat: jobs posted here will be removed.)

...job posters often do not visit each group when posting via the Submit Job form to see if any group they're posting to has special rules on what to post and what not to post. Hence, they post job forms to groups they shouldn't be posting, as in the case of the Contributed Module Status group, a group with over 1600 subscribers. The result is that I email the job posters on average about once a week to remove their job form. I email them because I don't want to just remove their job form from my group because then they won't learn and I don't want to just delete their job form either because I think that would be rude.

I've installed a new spam module and removed CAPTCHA.module. The new module analyzes the contents of comments and node submissions and assigns a spam score. If the module is unsure, the user may see a CAPTCHA. But usually, the module just allows the right stuff proceed without challenge.

Please let me know if you see spam or if you hear of authors getting stopped incorrectly.

Update: The new spam module is in alpha testing right now, and I'm not able to discuss its particulars.