Usability group homepage is getting out of date: let's fix it

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kika's picture

Problems with g.d.o/usability:

  • Duplicated content: "Post by topic" block in main content are and "Group categories" in sidebar are 100% same, one of them needs to go
  • Outdated information: Both "Quick UI review please" and also "We are working on:" sections in usability frontpage are severely out of date

New trends:
- important usability issues can now be found at http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/usability
- issue queue URLs have changed, they are based on views filters now, http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&components=usability&stat... link for usability component is dead link
- we have now tags in issue queue for identifying UI issues, "Component: usability" is likely depreciated
- very likely g.d.o is moving back under drupal.org umbrella http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11/community.html
- twitter #drupalusability tweets
- Mark Boulton upcoming activities http://buytaert.net/mark-boulton-to-help-with-drupal-7

Proposed solutions:
- remove of "Post by topic" and "Quick UX review please:" blocks from usability frontpage
- rewrite "We are working on:" block with quick blurb what the group is about + link to http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/usability + how to contribute (join, #drupal-usability irc, #drupalusability twitter tag etc).
- keep maintaining http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/usability page for latest action

Comments

I agree with these changes.

Noyz's picture

I agree with these changes. http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/usability is more effective than the current usability front page.

Sounds good, you'r admin -

Bojhan's picture

Sounds good, you'r admin - so you can go ahead I guess.

Done

kika's picture

Anybody to review the intro blurb?

Tweaked the text a bit. Lean

yoroy's picture

Tweaked the text a bit. Lean and mean, much better! Thank you.

When you fix one

joshmiller's picture

When you fix one thing....

Hey, Borris Mann changed the Mark Boulton Group URL, so your new homepage link is out of date...

should be: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal7ux

done

yoroy's picture

though it's just a wiki page, could have done it yourself too :)

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