Maintenance

The group to discuss administering the groups.drupal.org web site.

We also have an issue queue for the groupsorg.module that runs on this site for things that need code changes.

Maintainer advice:

Merge Business of Drupal with Consulting

Posted by Boris Mann on October 14, 2006 at 2:35am

I don't know who approved http://groups.drupal.org/the-business-of-drupal -- I recommended to the person who created with it to use/merge with the Consulting group instead (which is closest, in my mind), and didn't approve it.

There are some good posts in there, and I'd like to merge it, and commented on that here.

Thoughts?

Unread & New . . .

Posted by oadaeh on October 11, 2006 at 5:21pm

I just had most (maybe all, I haven't gone through them all yet) of my read nodes marked as unread, and several groups in RSS showed up as new. Was there a hiccup? Should I just ignore it?

Group specific vocabularies introduced

Posted by moshe weitzman on October 11, 2006 at 2:01pm

I'm pretty excited that I finally deployed the og_vocab module on this site. This enables each group to maintain its own classification system for its posts. It also offers a handy block called 'Group categories' which helps subscribers navigate by taxonomy term.

You can see the block on the right hand side of any group page if that group has actually created and used a group specific vocabulary. Also, notice that the display of terms at bottom of each post is now grouped by vocabulary. For an example of both of these changes, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/192.

In order to create a group specific vocabulary, you must be an admin of a group or a sitewide editor. If you qualify, you will see a new categories tab on the group home page which helps add/edit.

many module updates

Posted by moshe weitzman on October 6, 2006 at 5:59pm

I performed a long overdue update on our contrib modules here. I updated

og
pathauto
event
signup
views
image

Of these, og was the most radically changed i think. The email subscription feature should work better now.

Please let me know about any oddness.

Where did the high performance group go?

Posted by robertDouglass on August 28, 2006 at 12:07pm

I know that there was a group dedicated to high performance and that several people had posted to it, including Boris' post about Amazon's file serving service. Where is that group now? Did it get deleted?

space around picture

Posted by greggles on August 15, 2006 at 9:07pm

There isn't enough space around the avators, especially when there is a UL at the top of someone's post.

I tested this css in firefox using web developer editcss tool and it seems to work:

.node .picture img {
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}

RSS feeds fixed

Posted by moshe weitzman on July 29, 2006 at 2:04am

RSS feeds were broken in various ways for quite a while here. Folks should feel free to resubscribe to stuff (the urls are new) and keep an eye on the site that way. See the Recent tab for some nice feeds.

Improving group moderation queue processing

Posted by moshe weitzman on July 29, 2006 at 1:59am

We have a nice page and RSS feed listing new groups still to be moderated. But not enough people are working the queue. I would appreciate if someone could look into this workflow and make it easier. I want to add 2 links to the queue page.

unmoderate. this removes the group from moderation
notify and delete. send the node author an email and then delete the node. this will have to lead to a form where you compose the email.

ideas to improve this are welcome.

Email notifications enabled by default

Posted by moshe weitzman on July 17, 2006 at 8:32pm

I enhanced og and now all new group subscriptions have a corresponding email notification enabled. Existing subscriptions are not affected. Users may still disable this on their 'my subscription' page.

If the drupal.org mail infrastructure falls down, we'll have to finally fix the 'mail backend' issue: http://drupal.org/node/28604. Would be great if someone in this group would work on that.

Please promote stuff to home page

Posted by moshe weitzman on June 14, 2006 at 5:06pm

I just promoted a whole bunch of posts to the front page. Editors are all welcome to keep doing this. Front page articles should be some combination of broadly applicable and deeply interesting.

Site updated

Posted by moshe weitzman on June 12, 2006 at 3:51am

I switched this site and virtually all its contrib modules to DRUPAL-4-7 from HEAD. Please report any anomolies. Thanks.

Group approval guidelines

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 7, 2006 at 12:44am

Update: the feedback i have received is that it is nearly impossible to make these decisions. so lets approve groups that are properly titled, descriptioned, and welcome messaged. overlap will be tolerated except in extreme circumstances

I'm open to suggestions, folks. If you are an editor, you will see a block which reads group moderation queue (you can disable it if you wish). The queue has some questionable entries like North Texas and Benelux (belgium, netherlands, luxembourg), and Germany. Those are fine places, but they are a bit general and overlap with existing or obvious city groups like Brussels and Munich.

Hello world

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 6, 2006 at 2:50pm

Introduction

We've been quietly working on an exciting initiative for Drupal fans everywhere. Today we are launching a new drupal.org web site - groups.drupal.org. This site is for geographic groups like Vancouver and working groups like Views developers. The site provides each group with their own mini-site, where subscribers can post messages and collect replies.

Logging in

You are welcome to login using your drupal.org username and password. Remember to append @drupal.org to the username. Note that your email address will not be copied over, so you'll want to edit your profile after you login.

Notifications

There are three useful tracker pages offered by the site (there is only 1 tab if you are not logged in). You may also collect links for RSS feeds from each tracker page. Alternatively, each group offers an email subscription feature. With this, you get all nodes and comments posted to the group via email. A helpful reply link is in each email.

Creating groups

We welcome everyone to create groups on the site. Please adhere to the guidelines posted on the creation page.

About

This site showcases some pretty neat technology like Organic groups, signup.module, Casetracker, Views, Localization, and more. Read more.

Feedback

The site has a simple ticketing system for reporting issues. We hope to soon provide each group with its own ticketing area. We also have a feedback form -http://groups.drupal.org/contact.

Status

This site is just leaving alpha stage and entering beta. I don't anticipate a long beta like those wimpy apps Flickr and Gmail. When we leave beta, I will announce this site on drupal.org home page and in newsletters, etc. Meanwhile, feel free to blog about the site and use it heartily. It is most definitely live.

Signup module, group images, and more

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 6, 2006 at 4:10am

I worked around a core bug and fixed the breadcrumbs here. Also enabled singup module and added a bit of help text. We are launching very very soon ... There are three random fields when you signup for something that look out of place. I hope someone contributes a patch to this module to clean this up.

Need module development help - locatio, gmap, flickrstickr

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 4, 2006 at 12:18am

On our new groupsbeta staging site, I installed and configured 4 promising modules. The only one that is in good enough condition for use here is signup.module. Please have a look and see if you see what I see. I'd be pleased as punch if some developers contributed patches for the modules below so they work well enough to run here.

Signup. Please try to signup for an event and note and problems that you have. Better yet, write a patch.
Location + Gmaps.
The problem is that these modules do not yet play together well. When editing your profile, the Location fieldset is separate from the map and entering in a location from the map blows away your address info (maybe it should). When creating an event, the form looks good and integrated but it seems that the Location info is used and the map info is discarded. Also, the map is sometimes small and doesn't fill up the Location fieldset width.

Input formats - markdown and friends

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 1, 2006 at 6:51am

I've finally spent a little time with input formats. I really want to offer a text => markup syntax since I find those the most comfortable way to write. So I settled on Markdown, which borrows heavily from email conventions. If you write in email style your post will come out as you wish.

The following filters are running on this site

markdown. also see markdown extra syntax. provided by marksmarty.module
codefilter
urlfilter

FYI, here is the above list in markdown syntax:

I have the following running on this site
* [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax). also see [markdown extra syntax](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/). provided by [marksmarty.module](http://drupal.org/node/9838)
* codefilter](http://drupal.org/project/codefilter)
* [urlfilter](http://drupal.org/project/urlfilter)

I looked around and some posts do look a bit different from before the filter. In most cases, you just have to get rid of hacks you used because I didn't have these filters! please report any problems or suggestions.

New module - autotimezone

Posted by moshe weitzman on April 29, 2006 at 7:57am

I have activated autotimezone module so all you lazy folks like me will get properly adjusted timestamps for free. it even follows daylight savings as long as your have a modern OS that changes your clock for you.

Fields for profile information -- feedback

Posted by Boris Mann on April 28, 2006 at 12:22am

I added some custom profile fields in your account weeks ago now. There are two sections, business and personal. Below is a list of fields.

Business
* Organization (text)
* Organization website (URL)
* Organization profile (textarea)

Personal
* Real Name (text)
* Website (URL)
* Birthdate (date)
* About me (textarea) -- like a bio

So...feedback? More fields? Less fields? What should we add or remove?

Some other ideas:
* A "birthday" block would be a lot of fun.
* one of the "user tagging" modules would be great
* this groups site might be the right spot to also run a consultant/developer directory; profile fields could fit into this

New post view templates

Posted by moshe weitzman on April 27, 2006 at 10:33pm

Merlinofchaos came through again, this time with new comment.tpl.php and node.tpl.php. Those make our posts look much nicer with picture, group, privacy, and tag info all presented in a sane layout. nice.

Need volunteer to moderate groups submissions

Posted by moshe weitzman on April 25, 2006 at 5:15pm

I'm looking for a few volunteers to look at new groups as they are created and approve them when they meet these conditions:

have readable names, descriptions, etc.
are not overlapping too much with existing groups
are properly categorized (working group vs. geographical group vs. ?)

These guidelines will be further developed over time. If you are interested, please reply here or send me an email. This will be a big gift to our community, and your name will be mentioned on the forthcoming About page.

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