Please update Drupal Meetup DB!!
Hi everyone,
The last month has been amazing! I've met so many amazing Drupalers at events in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Please take a moment today to update the Drupal India meetup database:
http://bit.ly/drupal-india-db
This means you Mumbaiwale and Delhiwale who organized the camps!
Thank you,
Jacob
Status and Metrics
Stanford ITS has a nice Status and Metrics widget to show when their university network is experiencing problems or other related IT services are experiencing an outage.
Is there a Drupal module that already does this or is custom building a module (or making an application independent of Drupal) the way universities solve this particular need?
Read moreProject module's hidden project metrics
I have just re-discovered the http://drupal.org/project/issues/statistics in d.o's user menu. Below of the overall project statistics you get a nice overview of total issues by project and status. After clicking through the pages and changing the table sorting to Total, and while still looking at rather meaningless statistics, this idea crossed my mind:
Read moreDrupal Search Modules References
SQL Search (Trip Search), Faceted Search & Fuzzy Search
SQL Search (Trip Search)
SQL Search (a new iteration of Trip Search) is an alternative search module that offers advanced search operands (phrases in quotes, excluded terms); searching by taxonomy term, user and date; filtering within results; and an advanced search page.
http://drupal.org/project/trip_search
Faceted Search
Read moreDuplicate efforts?
See this node http://groups.drupal.org/node/7191 titled "Project Quality Metrics" in the Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal Association group. It looks like all that activity should either be here, or all the activity intended for this group should be there, i.e. duplicate efforts.
Read moreProject metrics, a diversion through project_usage.module
I've been spending most of the last week working on the project_usage.module. I got a copy of the usage data that's been reported to Drupal.org and spent some time fixing bugs (#167074) and making some small improvements (#167079, #167048). My big goal has been to get some code together to make the usage data visible (#165380). I've attached a few screen shots to show how it works.
Read moreProject Metrics - Drupal.org's tracking project usage
As of about 2pm PDT Drupal.org has been tracking the module usage. #128827 has been committed to the project module and installed on d.o. There's a follow up issue to make this usage data visible to users (#165380). I've added support to the metrics module to factor that into the score.
I'm not sure if the metrics module will be installed on d.o until the current database troubles resolved.
Request for Google Analytics
With 250% growth and an extremely obvious need for change on Drupal.org, we need to assemble a plan for moving forward.
Opening up the analytics will only help professionals consult better on the design of the site moving forward. Google analytics is an excellent free platform that can be shared amongst many users.
A special email list could be started as well to funnel the reports to. Users could then subscribe to this as well.
Any design without doing this is pointless and is going to be stabbing at the dark.
Accounts: Create a google.com/analytics account.
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