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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Policy document for curating user provided documentation wanted
Recently I noticed a rather buggy example in the user contributed comment below the core API page for hook_menu_alter.
As a result, I raised an issue about buggy user provided documentation in the webmasters issue queue, that you can see here.
This received the following comment from core maintainer Jennifer Hodgdon:
Read moreBut I'm not sure that we have a policy of removing comments with incorrect code in them.
Drupal.org content team meeting
Have you ever visited Drupal.org Case studies, or Marketplace, or Drupal Planet? All of them are moderated by a small team of volunteers. And they really need your help! No coding skills are required to contribute to Drupal.org in this way.
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Phase 1 of the Drupal.org Testing Initiative Concludes
Background
Back in April, a handful of us from the Git team set out to create functional tests to tell us if Drupal.org is working as expected when new features are developed and before new code is deployed.
We had the great good fortune to start this project when CapGemini offered the Drupal community three Drupal developers full time for six months. It was my privilege to work closely with these talented and motivated individuals to implement a comprehensive set of tests. We could not have come nearly so far as we have without them.
Accomplishments
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Drupal.org growth statistics 2012
A little while ago Jacob Singh and Gerhard Killesreiter did some work to gather some growth statistics about drupal.org. Here's that data and some analysis of it (see attached Open Document Spreadsheet for the raw data and some pivot tables of the data).
- We can see a big bump in registrations in January 2011 - Go Drupal 7.
Drupal.org office hours: November 27th
Come by #drupal-infrastructure if you:
- Want to help us Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7
- Work on something for Drupal.org and need help/advice/review from development team
- Want to contribute to Drupal.org but do not know where to start
Drupal.org team week notes #12
Past month(s) we all have been very busy working on Drupal 7 upgrade of our website. Below are latest updates on the project status from Joel ‘Senpai’ Farris.
Drupal 7 upgrade
Sprints
We had several sprints: at the end of October in Seattle, WA for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, and in Portland, OR at OpenSourcery’s offices (http://groups.drupal.org/node/262558), then again in early November each day at the BADcamp.There was a little bit of work accomplished at the PNWDS sprint, some good stuff relating to ApacheSolr and the project_solr module happened at the Portland sprint, and a lot of great work surrounding the last six remaining contrib modules happened at the BADcamp sprint. The Diff module has reached a stable release, as well as Machine Name. Entity Reference and Entity API are 98% release-able as well, Field Collection has no criticals left, and Materialized Views is no longer needed for drupal.org so we took it off the list.
Read moreDrupal.org office hours: November 13th
Come by #drupal-infrastructure if you:
- Want to help us Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7
- Work on something for Drupal.org and need help/advice/review from development team
- Want to contribute to Drupal.org but do not know where to start
When should we re-launch Drupal.org on D7?
Drupal.org D7 Upgrade Initiative - Two-day code sprint in Portland, OR
Now that the PNWDSummit sprint has finished, we're going to have another two-day sprint in Portland, OR in order to clean up some of the technical debt we've accumulated over the past 6 months and try to leapfrog this project forward to completion.
OpenSourcery will be donating space and hosting the sprint at their offices, and both Metal Toad Media and OpenSourcery are sending a few developers to power the sprint. Two devs from the D.A. will be sprinting too, as well as one or two of the Project* maintainers will be sprinting remotely.
Read moreDrupal.org D7 Upgrade Initiative - Final bugfix & QA sprint
It's the final week of testing and bugfixing on the D7 version of Drupal.org so that we can launch it before the end of the month, and I'll be hosting a working sprint at the PNWDSummit this weekend for anyone that wants to help out!
If you have a couple of hours during the summit, and the ability to find, fix, and/or test a D7 development or theming bug, see me in the Coder's Lounge and lend a hand.
Example tasks:
We need to focus on getting stable versions of the final five contrib modules (used by drupal.org itself) tested and released.
Introduction to automation for content checking
This message has been cross posted to Drupal.org Improvements, Documentation Team, and Drupal.org Testing Infrastructure.
tl;dr
I want to use automation to improve d.o content quality. I do not have access to do this and I have been unable to get someone with access interested enough to get this project moving.
The long version
My vision for improving the Drupal Documentation and drupal.org can be broken into three equally important ideas:
Read moreDrupal.org team week notes #11
We all have been waiting for this.. Drupal.org upgrade project is entering QA stage! Over 190 people already signed up to be A/B testers. Announcement has been updated with further instructions, make sure to check it.
In other upgrade news - the Bluecheese team got more volunteers now with new people joining last week and team's issue queue is active again!
The Project team had a lot of progress in the past 2 weeks and fixed issues like:
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Separate Sandbox and Full Projects on User Profile Pages
It would great if on the drupal.org user profile pages the user's sandbox and full projects could be separated. This would allow a viewer to quickly see how many sandbox and how many full projects a user is committing to.
Read moreWant to help QA drupal.org running on D7?
The Deal
It's time to start testing, poking, and prodding at the bigger, better pasture that will become our new home! Yes, that's right, this is the call for curious QA testers for drupal.org's new D7 goodness!
Click that sign up button if your interested in helping, perusing, or pointing out flaws. Especially the last part. We're looking for people to A/B the new site against the current D6 production site and find all the spots we've missed.
Read moreDrupal.org team week notes #10
Last week we finished migrating companies from the old Drupal services book to the new Marketplace. We are already reviewing requests to be listed in the new section. If you want to get your company listed, please follow marketplace guidelines. We still have quite a lot of open requests, so please be patient while our volunteers are going through them. Or better.. help us make it faster by reviewing some of the requests! Find out how you can help.
Read moreDrupal.org office hours: October 2nd
Come by #drupal-infrastructure if you:
- Work on something for Drupal.org and need help/advice/review from development team
- Want to contribute to Drupal.org but do not know where to start
- Want to help us Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7
