Prairie explained
Prairie initiative was launched in March 2011 with the aim of improving collaboration tools of Drupal.org. (Prairie comes from Prairie School in architecture.)
At the beginning we were exploring pain points and possible solutions, as well as different mertics to let us know if we succeed.
While there are a lot of things we wish to improve, we have identified 5 initial areas to focus our attention at. They are listed below. Each item is basically separate sub-project, they do not depend on each other and can be implemented in any sequence.
Current status (updated on 16.04.2012) :
| Topic pages | ready to be implemented | Design phase for this sub-project is over but coding phase has not started. |
| Reputation system for drupal.org | active | development phase |
| Issue page redesign | on hold | design phase |
| Project page redesign | on hold | research phase |
| Improving notifications | on hold | research phase |
Future sub-projects we would possibly work on after current ones are finished include:
- better tools for larger initiatives (initiative pages)
- better projects listing pages
- idea pages, brainstorming space for Drupal.org
- redesign user profile pages to better show expertise
- redesigning the Community & Support and Download & Extend pages of Drupal.org
- system for supporting sponsorship for drupal contributions
Prairie focus
Project page redesign
Last updated by tvn on Mon, 2012-02-06 15:45
Current Status - on hold
The current project (module, theme) page could do a better job of supporting both a site builder (someone choosing modules to use when building a Drupal site) and a module maintainer (someone responding to feature and support requests and planning a roadmap for future development hopefully with the assistance of co-maintainers). We'd like to find a way to support both these audiences better.
Read moreImproving notifications
Last updated by tvn on Mon, 2012-02-06 15:51
Current status - on hold
We need to make it easier to subscribe to issues/topics/areas of interest and then to be notified when something is going on that we might be interested in and willing/able to contribute to.
The dashboard of Drupal.org should be redesigned a little to make it easier to display and read these notifications
We should also make a much better use of email notifications than we currently do, and look at ways to automate Twitter/IRC notifications for those who want more immediate notice. We need to allow users to configure their notification preferences globally or by specific topic.
Reputation system for d.o.
Last updated by tvn on Mon, 2013-07-08 12:37
Current Status - Active
Initial draft is open for discussion
Basic module is under development
Demo site is available
Overview
The goal of this sub-project is to build an expertise/reputation system which will cover all the different types of contributions (including non-code ones), show the value of non-code contributions, encourage more non-code contributions, encourage more possible contributors to start actually contributing.
Read moreTopic Pages
Current Status - Ready for implementation
The design phase is over for this sub-project and it is ready to be implemented.
Discussion on technical implementation started here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/179394
Overview :
'Topic' page aggregates all activity across d.o, which was tagged with this specific topic.
We've explored and ditched the idea of these things being 'team' spaces.
Earlier Prairie discussions
- a topic page, initial ideas - http://groups.drupal.org/node/138439
Issue Page redesign
Last updated by tvn on Mon, 2012-02-06 15:20
Current Status - on hold
Re-designing an issue page so that it is easier to contribute and our discussions/collaborations are more effective.
Few positive things happened recently to issue pages, such as Issue following and Issue summaries, but we can do even better!
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