How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator?
-quite experienced
How frequently do you administer your Drupal site?
-Daily
How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately?
-several sittings over the day. Ban this user. look at this 30 minutes a day.
Neil has requested more information about what users use Drupal for. Try out some of the questions below to help us come up with the right question.
-How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a Drupal Administrator
-Why do you use Drupal?
-How does Drupal help the users of your Drupal site?
-Apparently it works quite well. Relatively, few complaints. for 70,000. Mainly they want to get information about drupal. they people who want to write can. They can organize a handbook and it works quite well.
Can you get to your Drupal administration pages? -- Validating question
What are some common Drupal administration tasks that you do?
-Banning users, very common
-Looking at the logs. Have a look to see if there are too many database disconnections. Something that might give you an idea you might need to do on the server.
-delete spam, run CVS update. Test some of your patches. download, apply it, then go to drupal 1 to sync. so that the same code is run on both of it.
-Something breaks, somebody reports in mailing list, irc, or see it yourself. debug it and fix it.
What are some infrequent Drupal administration tasks that you do?
-some people unpublish and delete
-security newsletters, he copy and paste from a node and copied to form. Unpublished and sent a test. and then tested it. Needed to create the tarballs.
When I administrate my Drupal site, I find it is easy to? When I administer my Drupal site, I find it hard to?
-hard: asked on irc to delete an entry from drupal plant. admin >> aggregator >> how to figure out the feed. update items, there was an item in the feed. update items, remove items, and update. had to flush and new items were there. If you go directly to the aggregator page. There is no link to go directly to administer the node, to edit this anywhere.
Easy: you've been using for years, it's intuitive
Easy: editing nodes
Easy: editing users a lot of work has going into it.
What are some other important Drupal administration tasks that we did not cover above?
-Looking at logs: look at the different categories of logs and look at what people are doing. filter by message type. can look at who's doing what. couple of mails today. I don't look very often, but it get's used a lot now adays.
-Some settings are in obscure places