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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CSS Guide for the Blue Cheese theme implementers
To provide standardized rules for layout, typography, navigation, multiple media styles and browser resets, the Blue Cheese theme design is based on the 960 grid system. The new design utilize the 12 column grid, where each of the columns is 60 pixels wide, the gutters between them are 20 pixel wide and on the each side of the page there is a 10 px margin, giving the page a total width of 960px.
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Drupal.org redesign implementation update, and sprint March 19th
The Drupal.org redesign continues to progress. This is great news and a morale boost for everyone involved.
Since our front page post on February 3...
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Content Migration From Staging Back to Live
I'm working with the drupal redesign administration team and volunteered to help with content migration. Posting this to the group to collect some feedback. Apologies in advance is this has already been considered/discussed.
As content is modifed and added to pages on the staging and local development sites, we'll need a plan for migrating back to live when the redesign is launched.
Read moreRedesign Administrator's Manual and Cheatsheet
This page is intended to be updated and maintained by the team.
The goals of this group
- Remove technical and workflow difficulties from the work of the people working on the Drupal.org redesign.
- Give themers a good place to work, where they get feedback about what they do.
- Give module developers a way to test their stuff on a real site.
- Provide a stable and recreatable environment
- Work out migration paths for code, content, and data so that we have a smooth process to deployment.
- Keep the sites on stagingvm.drupal.org working right.
Tasks that a redesign admin might take on
- Troubleshooting a site problem on staging*.drupal.org
- Reloading databases with a refreshed version
- Preparing a site database dump for people to use on their own machines
- Preparing a canned "appliance" for themers to work with
- Handling the issues in the issue queue on component "staging.drupal.org"
- Supporting people who are running a d.o clone on their own local box for development.
Current Assignments
- Content migration: Ezra
- Appliance/Desktop: Ezra/Jonathan
- Database updates: Jonathan
Redesign Administrators Training
This will be a kickoff meeting for the Drupal Redesign Administrators.
You can check your local time
We will use the Redesign Admin's Cheatsheet and cover:
- Tasks that are outstanding
- Responsibilities
- Communications and the issue queue and IRC
- Box "ownership" and how to avoid stepping on each other's toes
- Basic administration on drupalvm
- Adding administrative users to the Drupal staging instances
- Updating svn
- Using drush and drush updatedb
We'll be using Skype and screensharing. Please make sure rfay (randy at randyfay.com) has your skype ID in advance.
Read moreThemers: You don't have to wait 5 minutes any more
Themers have had to wait for cron to run (5-minute intervals) to see what they had committed to the theme sandbox. No more!
Just go to http://staging1.drupal.org/update_themes.php and it will update on demand. You can hit any of the staging sites (http://staging9.drupal.org/update_themes.php works just the same).
Enjoy.
Read moreCommunication Guidelines for Drupal.org Redesign
The following guidelines will help keep implementers (new and old) and the Redesign team communicating with each other. Thanks for your participation!
Read moreRedesign QA Volunteers
QA Reviewers February 2010
Assignments will typically be to focus on a task like checking all of the links, review theme/branding for consistency against guidelines, etc across the 22 sections of the new redesign. A full checklist wiki will be published soon.
Join the Drupal.org redesign implementers group and edit this wiki, adding your information below:
QA Assessments January 2010
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Content Migration Process and Guidelines
This page is the hub for the Drupal.org Redesign Content Migration. This is a wiki page for a reason - please add to and edit the page as needed. [last updated 2 August 2010 -- lisarex]
Overview
A big part of the redesign includes having new content on drupal.org.
Read moredrupal.org Redesign: Download and Extend Implementation Notes
This WIKI is a continuation of an original google document composed 5th Jan 2010. Please feel free to update this WIKI with relevant information. We hope this will be a useful reference for the Download and Extend and other redesign implementation teams.
D&E implementation discussion notes 5th Jan 2010 - Edited by kjay on 8th Feb 2010
Read moreNew Issues for Mark Boulton Design
Redesign team, please add your questions regarding the style guide provided by Mark Boulton Design. If there's an issue filed already, please link it.
Style Guide
Prototype
Editorial Guide
Visual Language (brand and other subsections)
Questions for Mark
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Read moreSEO Best Practices for the Drupal.org Redesign
The following are some SEO guidelines for the drupal.org redesign implementation. Many thanks to Erik Wagner and Josh Ward of Volacci for putting together the webinar, Search Engine Optimization for the Drupal.org Redesign, which can be viewed at http://blip.tv/file/3006098.
Title tags
- Title tags are displayed as search results, so ensure they describe the page
- Ensure they include the most important keyword for that page first, e.g. Get Started with Drupal | Drupal.org
Encountering a fatal error on staging5. Requesting assistance.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_get_schema() in /var/www/staging5/htdocs/sites/all/modules/views/includes/view.inc on line 1590
I first saw this error yesterday (12/29) and am still unable to access anything on the site. I appreciate any assistance you can offer.
I've since copied the latest drupalorg module into the staging5/patched sandbox from CVS head as our implementation teams will need to work in here for the Download and Extend pages.
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module staging question
I'm a bit confused by the layout of the redesign_modules_sandbox.
I dig the stagingX/ folders for each staging server, and, the 'stagingX/custom' folder seems to me to be obviously new custom-made modules. However, could someone elaborate on the difference between the contrib folder and the patched folder? I didn't see any details on how to do this in the new code repository wiki page.
Specifically the section in the wiki page that I'd like to elaborate on is:
"if you're throwing the latest version of views in on staging5, put it in staging5/contrib/views."
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Redesign IRC sprint - Fri 8 January
Hey all,
This is an invitation to join us on Friday, January 8 for a redesign sprint.
For the implementers, it will be just one week from the goal of having your section complete by January 15th, so it should be good timing for tidying up those last bits.
For anyone else, if you could help review code/module patches, that would be awesome.
The redesign team (including theme maintainers) will be available in IRC in irc.freenode.net in #drupal-infrastructure to help answer questions, review patches, etc. We are mostly in North America, so bear that in mind, in terms of times etc.
Read moreRationale behind having new Redesign projects / issue queues
The project management team, with input from some d.o. admins, decided to create a dedicated Drupal.org Redesign project as well as a separate project for the redesign's theme, Blue Cheese. Currently, the issues are being re-classified, except for issues that are in the infrastructure project and related to staging.
Read moreTheme SVN checkout instructions
Merged with Code Repository page: http://groups.drupal.org/drupalorg-redesign-implementers/code-repository
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Widgets for the Dashboard
Many parts of the redesign imply widgets for the Dashboard. This wiki is for tracking the widgets, their priority, and brainstorming new widgets.
| Title | Description of content | Related page | Priority | Assigned |
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| Drupal.org Activity | Stats about Drupal.org | Get involved | High | GVS |
Assignments and Contact Info for the Drupal.org redesign minimum viable product
Twenty two sections of the redesign has been identified as the minimum viable product to launch the new drupal.org. The sponsoring companies and contributors to the Drupal.org redesign implementation are below.
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Staging*.drupal.org Site Status
We have 10 sites set up for the redesign, staging1.drupal.org through staging10.drupal.org.
This page is the place to post their current status, usage, and other notes.
| Site | Status | svn revision | Database notes | Notes | Last Update |
| Staging1 | Working | 2026 | recent d.o load | Ready for use. | 2009-12-02 |
