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Drupal.org D7 Upgrade - international working sprint (#2)
The Drupal.org D7 Upgrade initiative continues as promised with a second working sprint on July 13th to 15th for any and all participants who wish to help upgrade our own drupal.org website.
We'll be sprinting in a variety of venues across several countries simultaneously!
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Note: this wiki page has been depricated. All up-to-date information about case study team and how to contribute can be found at: http://drupal.org/node/1617960/
Case studies team is a group of people working on Drupal Case Studies section on drupal.org.
Team members
Reviewers
Blue_Jumpers_Filip
Lisarex
Tezza
Responsive Drupal.org: A Sass and Susy framework
Previously, we had a friendly discussion on what we could use as a responsive layout framework for Drupal.org. Rupl, Banghouse, and myself played around with a lot of the options discussed in that post to work out which would be a good fit for us. Snugug also volunteered to help us out with technical questions and implementation.
We ended up deciding that using a Sass framework solves a lot of our problems, specially Susy. Implementing this framework is no small feat. We wrote a little summary of the Sass, Compass, and Susy implementation.
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Drupal.org team week notes #3
Earlier this year we asked you to vote on improvements to Drupal.org that you would like to see happen. Request for a better showcase of Drupal websites was in the top 5 by the results of the voting. This week we are happy to announce a revamped Case studies section. This section is a space for members of our community to share what they have been working on and get some feedback.
Read moreDrupal.org team week notes #2
During past 2 weeks we had slow progress on all fronts, with the biggest impediment - resource constraints (as in too few people to do too many things).
We are very close to deployment of updates to Case studies section on drupal.org. This will be the first step of redesign of that section. In future we are planning to add slideshow (bmaheshs and the team at Tekriti Software are working on this right now) and various other enhancements.
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Make Drupal Association more visible on drupal.org
One of the most important financial sources for Drupal Association are membership fees. They help fund community projects like DrupalCon scholarships, grants, Drupal.org improvements and more. Currently, there are 800,000 d.o user accounts and only 3,000 of them are Association members. We are looking for ways of increasing this number. If we can grow our membership we will be able to raise more money for various community projects, most importantly for Drupal.org itself.
Read moreDrupal.org team week notes #1
Welcome to the first edition of drupal.org team weekly notes - regular updates on what is happening at the drupal.org development land, what we've been working on and how you can participate and help us make drupal.org a better place. (Actually these updates will be posted once per 2 weeks, but bi-weekly notes sounds not so cool!)
Drupal 7 upgrade
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Code standard check at the time of git commit
Was wondering if we could include pre-commit git hooks in module/theme repositories to check drupal coding standards. (Like the ones provided by http://drupal.org/project/git_hooks).
This would help in standardizing the code on d.o
The only problem I find is ... new contributors may find it irritating and hence put them off.
Thoughts???
Read moreDrupal.org Office Hours - May 7
On the week of April 23 we've launched an upgrade of Drupal.org to Drupal 7 at the sprint at Portland, Oregon. We've had a lot of progress, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Come to our regular Drupal.org office hours this week and find out how you can help upgrade Drupal.org to D7!
As usual there will be time for you to share what you're working on and get feedback/assistance.
Read moreResponsive Drupal.org: What we want in a framework
Last updated by jcchapster on Fri, 2015-04-24 11:35
As part of the Drupal.org code sprint in Portland; Chris Ruppel, Joel Moore and myself have been discussing a new Bluecheese. A lean, tight, and admin friendly theme that lays out a framework for the future. One that would allow us to develop a mobile friendly, responsive design.
What we want
An admin friendly UI
Read moreReputation/badges system for drupal.org: proposal
Part 1. Voting system to recognize contributions/expertise
Basic functionality for this part is written - Reputation module.
Take a look at demo site. Feedback is welcome. Especially code reviews!
We define a list of types of contribution - up to 6, "+1" widgets on comments in issue queue, forums, doc pages, g.d.o posts etc. let users vote for comment and specify type of contribution they wish to recognize.
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Upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7 Sprint!
The week of April 23 - April 27, the Drupal Association is sponsoring a sprint, hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, to upgrade Drupal.org from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7!
The sprint will be mainly focused on the following areas, and the following attendees will be there:
Read moreDrupal.org Office Hours
Come to Drupal.org office hours to share what you're working on and help us come up with the weekly drupal.org hit list!
Stop by #drupal-infrastructure from 11am to 12pm Pacific Time (18:00 - 19:00 UTC).
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Paying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platform
Ever wanted a place where you could simply offer to pay to get something you need in Drupal done?
Please donate to make that place. (Yes, it's using a different crowdfunding platform, one that really lacks features for coordination, but is passing on all money raised -- if we reach the minimum -- without even deducting credit card fees.)
And spread this link! http://tilt.tc/usLL Is there enough interest in community funding of Drupal software to fund the software to coordinate this-- in just a few days? Also, if you are available to work on this project in DrupalCon Denver, we've got a DrupalCon ticket for you! Or if you're interested in working on this later, contact me for that, too!
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Content sprint at DrupalCon Denver
As announced at http://denver2012.drupal.org/sprints, there will be a sprint on Friday, Mar 23rd that will focus on the new Drupal showcase content, along with a few other areas.
Ideally, we need folks that enjoy web writing, and have editorial skills and QA experience, to help review other page content. Anyone with CSS skills, or an interest in contributing code to drupal.org would be extremely welcome!
Sprinters will create the new Drupal site / distribution case study feature, evaluate and migrate the best ones. Let's also encourage the creation of new ones.
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Let Drupal.org Dashboard serve content to user by interest
Allow users to self-define by interest(s) in the Dashboard. Each checked role would trigger a block displaying feed of content appropriate to their interest. Could be documentation, or see LinClark's new article on RSS by role using microdata.
Interests (or roles) might include: New to Drupal, Developer, Site Builder, Content Editor, Web Master, etc.
Make it possible to change interests (roles), so that folks have the option to change as needed.
Read moreQuick Start Guide
I am writing one. I have only started this discussion to be able to put in the issue queue at ideascale but I've put some other things into the post there, which I will cut-and-paste back here when I'm done.
I said:
As a complete newbie, one of the most confusing things is to be reading documentation explicitly for drupal 7 and follow a link to a page which is only for drupal 6.
Read moreMentoring for all levels of Drupal Developers
Sorry this is a repeat of an issue I posted on d.o http://drupal.org/node/1464192
I was kinda fumbling around where to post it.
As @greggles suggests on the issue there are some related discussions going on http://groups.drupal.org/guilds
There are some really good ideas going on there, but I think they are moving mostly in the direction of certifications and training.
I think the idea of mentoring could maybe be approached from several different directions.
This already exists (community) but it would be cool to formalize it a bit more.
Read moreModule Performance Hit Indicator
We all know what it's like. Install a shiny new version of drupal and it's super fast and whizzy...until we start to turn modules on. It would be great if there was some kind of indicator on the site to show how much of a performance hit / gain is achieved when using a specific module. Might help weed out the performance hungry modules away from lightweight ones when trying to decide what to use.
Read moreCreate a "Solutions" directory on d.o
As I build more and more sites using drupal what becomes clear is that there are a myriad of different ways to do things using a wide variety of modules. Getting that right way including the right combination of modules can sometimes be what takes the time in building a site. What would be really useful is a directory where site creators can in some fashion say what their site does and with what modules. We could go further and employ the use of "Features" to allow members to upload useful features that solve specific problems.
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