moderation & editorial

I have created the group "Spanish Documentation and Related", it is active and there is a community working around to contribute documentation in Spanish.

Some people is concerned about join the team because such group is not approved yet, may somebody please moderate that group?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, all,

When adding new posts, I seem to have lost the ability to make posts publicly visible, even in groups I manage --

The checkbox (make this post public) is gone --

Is this a new change, or did I just miss the announcement?

And if this was a choice, can it be reconsidered, or what was the rationale behind it? IMO, we lose a lot of the potential to get more people into these communities of they can't see what's going on before they join.

Just noticed 2 posts:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/23424
http://groups.drupal.org/node/23425

Does it is SPAM? may I delete them ?

• evelCuy

I just added the 'admin users' role to Litwol, since he's managing a large group and is well-known and responsible. Is that ok? What's the usual process for handing admin perms?

e.g. http://groups.drupal.org/lietuvi-kas-drupal-vertimas which seems to have few members and no content.

Should they be deleted?

Finally, I have publically posted a version of this site running on Drupal6. Some basics:

• Site: http://groupsbeta.drupal.org
• HTTP Auth: user=drupal, pass=drupal (protects site from search crawlers)
• Drupal login: Use your regular groups.drupal.org credentials.
• Bug reports - Please search for dupes and if none, create an issue.
• Feature requests - please don't file any now. We are focused on the upgrade.

Some notes:

1. Email has been disabled.
2. We are using a copy of groups.drupal.org DB. Feel free to mangle the content. I do testing in the Sandbox group out of habit.
3. All private content has been unpublished. We are not offerring private content on D6. We will soon post on front page about this and email all authors of private posts. You will have a chance to download your content or make it public. More info soon.
4. The job listing page will come back soon. I do hope this feature moves off of groups.drupal.org during the redesign.
5. We are using Solr powered search, and can facet by group, among other things. Thanks and respect to the apachesolr devs.
6. Panels powered group pages are gone for now. We need to finish this patch. Help wanted.

Hello, all,

Recently, some folks at the National Writing Project (a non-profit organization supporting teacher professional development and supporting student writing) created a group here on g.d.o --

The NWP is made up of various chapters nationwide, and many of these chapters maintain a web presence. Currently, these chapters use an array of tools, ranging from Wordpress to Wikispaces to Joomla! to, that's right, Drupal.

A user keeps trying to start a Tampa group, so I expanded the scope of the eisting Central Florida group and sent the below to: http://groups.drupal.org/user/8139.

Message:

Since the "Central Florida" group seems rather quiet, I'm expanding its
description to include "Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota,
Bradenton, Tarpon Springs, and Lakeland."

Please contact this user and consider promoting him to admin of the group
also, since he wants to kick-start Tampa-area events: http://groups.drupal.org/user/32741

http://groups.drupal.org/ozama-santo-domingo

Looks way to narrow in scope, and also does not meet the guideline of haivn ght title and description in English. given that there are only 2 members, should it be deleted?

It seems like these two groups are identical in terms of their descriptions and regional base:

http://groups.drupal.org/philadelphia-area

http://groups.drupal.org/midatlantic-usa

Is ther a guidleine for getting groups to merge or making them more distinct?