A place to discuss and collaborate on improvements to Drupal.org. Here you can find and share ideas for improvements, organize and announce IRC sprint or other Drupal.org related event, get regular updates from development team.
This group is for active users of the site, content moderators, site moderators, and anyone contributing to Drupal.org in any way.
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#drupalorg on Freenode
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Developer tools team leadership
UPDATE: Drupal.org Developer Tools Leadership team announced https://groups.drupal.org/node/403203.
Proposals
- https://groups.drupal.org/node/372893/
(Drupal.org Software Working Group - Current draft proposal) - https://groups.drupal.org/node/372893/revisions/741198/view (webchick, eliza411, et al)
- https://groups.drupal.org/node/372893/revisions/735063/view (eliza411 - Initial proposal)
Issue queue redesign considerations
I wasn’t involved with the issue queue redesign, but I’ve been gathering information about where the changes came from. This post is ABSOLUTELY NOT intended to combat or negate the feedback that’s been generated since the D7 launch, nor is it intended to defend maintaining the changes. My intention is to share the historical foundation for the design choices so they can be factored in when discussing how to resolve the challenges introduced by the new design.
Here’s what I’ve discovered so far:
Read moreDrupal.org Development Environment Roadmap
We'll continue to report major milestones here, but for detailed progress, follow the Drupal.org Development Environments metaissue.
Urgency
Read moreDrupal.org D7 Upgrade Testing
Last updated by naveenvalecha on Wed, 2013-10-09 08:38
Steps to test the d7 upgrade site
- Go to https://git7site.devdrupal.org
- A popup will display Enter the username and password written below
- Username : drupal
- Password : drupal
- Then login with your drupal.org credentials
For more information see these links https://drupal.org/project/d7qa
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DSWG: 2014 roadmap and what we've learnt from community ideation process
About a month ago the Drupal.org Software Working Group announced that we were seeking community input to help us craft a short-term Drupal.org roadmap for the beginning of 2014.
Read moreDrupal.org Environment Dependencies and Components
Today at a session at DrupalCon Prague we went over the environments needed on Drupal.org and their dependencies. Below are the meeting notes. We did not get to cover production concerns.
production
- production services
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL
- Solr
- Varnish
- public facing traffic
- util copy that fronts git auth
- nginx (https termination)
- gittwisted
- beanstalkd
auto-apply tags for Drupal core components
EDIT - please disregard, this goes against our tag policies.
it'd be awesome if components on Drupal core issues had a matching tag that was auto-applied when a component was selected.
Read moreBig issue queue clean-up at DrupalCon
On Friday, September 26, we’ll have Drupal.org table(s) in the big sprint room. Come and help us improve home for the Drupal project. No specific coding skills required!
We are going to go though Drupal.org maintenance queues, such as Webmasters, Content, Infrastructure, fix as many issues as we can and close old, not relevant any more issues.
You can also join remotely via IRC, #drupalorg channel on Freenode.
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Drag and drop inline images
Attaching images to comments on github.com is a delightful experience. Select multiple images through the file dialog or simply by dragging it into the comment textarea, and they will get uploaded and posted in the comment using an inline filter.
We could make this possible as well on drupal.org extending the core file upload for nodes, or the comment_upload module for comments, and leveraging the inline filter.
Links:
https://drupal.org/project/inline
https://drupal.org/project/comment_upload
Hide links from user and use jQuery to push contents from server
Hello there!
I am new to drupal, i don't even know if here is the correct place to post this.
thanks in advance for your attention!
I created a simple script to hide links (create a reference to them using unique id) and this way to develop a method of loading data from server, making many blocks static (data loaded on first presentation), on my case I just wanted the center div (that hold breadcrumb, squeeze...) to change upon navigations)
Edson Martins
Read moreDrupal.org D7 Upgrade: Community QA is now open!
It’s time! After almost a year and a half of work we are at the finish line. This week we’d like to open D7 Drupal.org for community QA. We invite you all to login to the site, look around, do some of the things you usually do on Drupal.org and report any bugs or problems you encounter.
See the full announcement: https://association.drupal.org/node/18438
Drupal.org D7 upgrade QA queue: https://drupal.org/project/d7qa
Building landing pages for Drupal.org
This is the plan for building audience-specific landing pages on drupal.org. Calling all user researchers and content specialist: help us help site builders find their thing on drupal.org. Start with your thoughts on the approach outlined here.
Summary
The current structure and sheer amount of pages on drupal.org make it hard for people to find the specific information they are looking for.
Read moreSite builder landing page, step 1: Research
We want to build audience specific landing pages on drupal.org. The first one is for site builders. These people are having a hard time getting started, finding the right modules, learning how to use them etc.
To find out what content is needed to provide a sensible starting point for site builders, we need to find out what site builder needs are. So lets research those goals and needs first.
Rough timebox: september 2013
Outcomes
- Pragmatic persona: simple profiles of beginner, intermediate & advanced site builder
What should Drupal.org be in 2017?
This is not a proposal, but I'm going to break protocol here for a second because I'm genuinely curious to dig into something. This is just a thought exercise, not going to necessarily drive the roadmap one way or the other. But...
Read moreModule Flagging
What's your idea?
Allow flagging of modules, at least "favorite" modules, possibly also "to review" modules.
What are the benefits?
Allow users a way to keep a sensible and authoritative list of modules they like, for later referencing.
What are the risks?
If the number of flags on a module are exposed to the public, it risks marginalizing new modules. This can be avoided by not making this a publicly visible metric. However, it's worth noting that this risk is already present as a result of showing the "number of downloads" and "usage" on module pages.
Read moreWant to help QA Drupal.org's D7 upgrade (or just take a look at the progress)?
The Drupal.org D7 team is preparing to announce the opening of community quality assurance. A lot of QA work has already been done with both the Drupal.org BDD tests and manual review. Developers are working to resolve as many known issues as possible before the community-wide invitation to avoid duplicate bug entries, and the site is getting very close!
We invite you to join us on Thursday, August 29 at 11:00am Pacific for a quality assurance orientation, which will be recorded for viewing during the QA phase.
We'll be covering:
- A brief review of automated tests
- Orientation to the QA server
- New functionality
- Known issues
- Deferred issues
- Where and how to report issues
- Question and answers
Meeting Info:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5076834765193826560
Dial-in: +1 (702) 489-0003
Drupal.org D7 Upgrade Queue: http://drupal.org/project/d7qa
Drupal.org D7 QA site: http://git7site.devdrupal.org
Note: The meeting tool doesn't support Linux :(
Documentation as well as the recording will be available. If you have questions, please post them here.
Brainstorming for 2014
There's brainstorming for Drupal.org in 2014 going on this week.
Get the context from the Drupal.org Software Working group:
https://association.drupal.org/node/18358
Show your support for ideas or post your own at:
https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-2014-roadmap-brainstorming
Empowering Community Engagement Through Improving drupal.org
As Drupal software is increasingly used by more people around the world to power a varied array of projects - from simple online publishing tools to complex web applications, defining the sense of community drupal.org facilitates becomes more relevant.
At base, the term ‘community’ can be applied to the meta group of people and organizations using Drupal around the world purely by the fact that they share this use in common. Taking the definition a step further, a more ideal ‘community’ would also imply a sense of fellowship between members which could result in common goals.
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