The past 2 weeks have been pretty active and we have some awesome developments to share today.
First, a new slideshow has been added to the Case studies section thanks to bmaheshs and Kapil Juneja from Tekriti Software. This section is now fully ready to showcase the best sites built with Drupal. If you have an impressive site to share, follow the guidelines and publish your own case study.
To make sure the new Case studies section is well-maintained, we are looking to build a team of dedicated case study writers and reviewers. Some time ago we published a Call for writers, editors and marketing professionals and on June 12th we had an IRC meeting with a few people who volunteered to join the team. The meeting went great and we already started reviewing case studies for promotion to Featured section. If you would like to help us - we are still looking for more people to join the team, all information is on the team wiki.
Second, for more than a month we've been looking for someone to take care of the Events page at groups.drupal.org. And finally last week primerg stepped up to help with this task and already made huge progress on the development site. We might even have a new events page on groups.drupal.org before the next edition of our week notes!
Third, one of the important problems on drupal.org currently is that after initial work on the Marketplace finished - approval process for Drupal services list got broken and approval process for other parts of the Marketplace became unclear. Last week we started working on the second round of improvements to the Marketplace. We will introduce 2 listings of service providers - usual and featured, and we will define a clear process and gudelines for adding companies to listings. These improvements should be ready in the next couple of weeks.
Fourth, we have a plan of implementation for project reviews in place and are now looking for a volunteer to implement it on the development site. Project reviews is a part of the Projects quality initiative, which has a goal to make it easier for site builders to choose the most fitting contributed projects among hundreds of them available on drupal.org.
Drupal 7 upgrade updates.
The biggest news is that on 13-15 of July we are planning a second working sprint. It will happen simultaneously in several countries and everyone is welcome to join and help us upgrade drupal.org to Drupal 7! For more information, take a look at the event announcement, come by Drupal.org office hours at the #drupal-infrastructure channel or contact Senpai.
As for the team updates, the Bluecheese team last week wrote a post explaining their decision to choose the Sass/Compass/Susy solution. Overall their work is progressing nicely.
Customizations Team has upgraded Dashboard to Drupal 7.
The Infrastructure Team worked on various issues such as, Create a Solr dev site for the Drupal Dev Days sprint in Barcelona, Evaluate field_collection for Project* on drupal.org, and Unblock the Git Team’s access restrictions.
The Git Team made huge progress on “Revisit syncEvent() logic on main repository sync plugin [BLOCKER]” and “Get latest D6 versioncontrol code deployed”.
The Project Team is making slow but steady progress on a myriad of tasks. Such as “Port the node/add/project-issue UI to D7”, “Remove 'Issue directory' setting” , “Fix project_issue to use the new Project* node-type settings system” , “Port project-specific "Assigned" functionality to D7”, and “Add a drush command to drain the mail_queue”.
The Solr upgrade is stalled right now and we need help to move it forward.
As you can see a lot is going on in the drupal.org development land! More updates on our progress, as well as answers to your questions, you can get during Drupal.org office hours each Monday (18:00 to 19:00 UTC, #drupal-infrastructure IRC channel). For immediate updates follow us on Twitter!