Groups.drupal.org

The group to discuss the use of groups.drupal.org. This is for active users of the site, group admins, and maintainers to collaborate on how to improve the groups.drupal.org site. There is also a Maintenance group for people who help maintain the site, such as those with editor permissions, or those are interested in the maintenance of the site. More specific issues should be posted to the groups.drupal.org project issue queue.

Stopping spammers on GDO

Posted by saitanay on September 25, 2012 at 10:04am

It is very obvious that GDO is receiving as much spam as real content. Especially by certain people believe that SEO is all about posting links on irrelevant sites.

Causing many issues created on GDO just for spam removal
http://drupal.org/project/issues/groupsdrupalorg?text=spam&status=Open&p...

For example the last 5 replies in a thread that I have subscribed to, are all spam, with a comment where the author tries to make it look like a relevant post, with no real content and a link to an irrelevant site

Ex:

managing "promote to front" nodes on GDO

Posted by dougvann on September 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

The DrupalCampOhio node was created in MAY and the camp is in DEC. The node is promoted to front page but the node is old. As a result the node is on page 2. Today we added a comment to the node to announce that registration is open. That would make this node not only promoted to front but also the most recently commented node in that class. This still results in the node being on page 2.

Still on the front page are nodes for events that have come and gone.

Questions....

Moderation Guidelines for New Groups

Posted by silverwing on September 11, 2012 at 11:50pm
Last updated by apaderno on Wed, 2021-06-16 10:48

To help consolidate Groups documentation on Drupal.org, the contents of this page have been moved to Forming a new group.

Layout sugestion to help our eyes focusing faster when scrolling

Posted by 3magnus on August 24, 2012 at 7:31pm

This is just a simple and quick layout improvement sugestion, to help our eyes focusing faster on the begining of next (or previous) post when scrolling.

It will be specially usefull for lists containing posts with:

long (high) summaries
no picture
entire titles lowercased
H2 or HR tags in summary

The sugestion is to add a top border on every row (marking it's begining) with a CSS code like:
div.views-row{border-top:1px solid #d8d8d2;padding-top:5px;}

Drupal Commons 3.x Interactive Prototype - Feedback Requested!

Posted by ezra-g on July 25, 2012 at 4:15pm

Following extensive collaboration with Jeff Noyes and Lisa Rex of Acquia's design team, we're excited to share an interactive prototype of Drupal Commons 3.x, and hope that you'll provide feedback.

Policy Proposal for Closed (by request) Groups

Posted by silverwing on June 26, 2012 at 7:51am

The Problem
We currently don't have any guidelines on when Groups should be set to "Moderated - membership requests must be approved." On our Guidelines for Forming New Drupal Groups page it just says "Almost all groups should be open. Use other choices only when there is a good reason for doing so."

Enable rich-text editor for comment form

Posted by huydvx on June 21, 2012 at 4:13am

Hi all, I want enable(add) rich-text editor for comment form. I am config successful and using: IMCE, TinyMCE 3.4.6, self-built interface(add(edit) content form existed rich-text). Thanks!

Commons Architecture issues posted

Posted by ezra-g on April 26, 2012 at 6:35pm

I've posted several issues for discussing the Commons 3.x (Drupal 7) architecture.

If you have input to share about the way we build Activity streams, the choice of base theme, the WYSIWYG editor or wiki functionality in Commons, now is the time to share your thoughts!

Edit: I've added this post to the Groups.drupal.org and Maintenance groups, but it's certainly possible that GDO would implement a particular feature in a different way from Commons.

Proposal: Allow university/college-specific groups

Posted by laura s on March 24, 2012 at 1:21am

In a discussion at DrupalCon about promoting Drupal adoption in colleges and universities, greggles, Peter Wolanin and I considered the benefit of approving college- and university-centric groups, even if there is already a regional group that might suit. My own feeling is that this would be a great idea.

Some reasoning bullet points:

It's in the Drupal community's interest to increase Drupal adoption by students.
College students can be rather provincial in activities (i.e., may not express interest in off-campus community events).

The guidelines for creating groups should be revised.

Posted by camidoo on January 18, 2012 at 12:28am

The guidelines presented on the group creation page do not fall in line with the approval process being enforced.

Specifically:

Groups should fall into one of three categories:
working group coordinating on a Drupal feature, module, or distribution
a geographical user-group such as users in a specific city
or a Drupal event organizing group such as a DrupalCON organizing group

I was just denied / had a group deleted because there weren't enough people "around" my module:

Another abuse of the Job content type

Posted by dougvann on January 11, 2012 at 2:24pm

User: http://groups.drupal.org/user/1478508
Acct Age:15 days
Post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/201803

Grievance:
1. the post is not a job it's a solicitation for work
2. the call to action is to visit the company site which is a horrible looking static html site [ok I'm just being picky on that one LOL]
3. After touting its "Drupal Module" development skills the site continues that the company provides the following non-existent services: [Drupal Extensions Development, Drupal Component Customization, Smarty Templates]

policy for job postings

Posted by ericG on November 6, 2011 at 7:47pm

I want to once again raise an issue about what should be considered on-topic and acceptable for job postings in this group (and this site in general).

This has been discussed a number of times in the past in NYC meetups and IRC (and probably here in the group). It seems that almost every time this has been motivated by the same recruiter.

Can we somewhere explicitly state that job postings are for people to post positions available, not for recruiters to post info about people they represent that are looking for jobs?

Poll not allowing votes

Posted by Anonymous on October 25, 2011 at 8:22pm

A poll I created earlier today is not allowing members to vote:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/185849

I don't see any options that may address it, how can I fix this?

Thanks for any help!

Group deletion

Posted by Maria Nicol on October 13, 2011 at 5:37am

Hello,
We want to open a discussion about the group deletion.
We are a group of Drupal project divelopers with more then 300 members all over the world (12 languages speaking)
For the last 10 days we traing to open a group in you drupal site for joining you projects.
But every time we are deleted by contect moderator. And get this note:

Stop Receiving Job Postings...

Posted by markwk on September 9, 2011 at 11:40am

My least favorite thing about groups.drupal.org are the job postings. I can't find any way to remove or prevent this. This would be a really nice addition. I can't imagine this is a major change to add considering jobs are a content type.

Should all groups be "open"? What are valid reasons to make a group "closed"?

Posted by laura s on September 7, 2011 at 9:58pm

(Cross-posted because this is a g.d.o management issue as well as a g.d.o usage issue.)

I've noticed that several groups on g.d.o are set as closed membership (i.e., g.d.o members can't just join, they have to ask to join or be invited to join).

Very partial list of some closed groups, for illustration

How to delete nodes from a group, and other usability issues?

Posted by sdague on August 28, 2011 at 4:26pm

Is it really not possible to delete nodes from a group? Over on Hudson Valley group I created a poll, which apparently freaked out and closed itself when I tried to give it a more descriptive title. It's now cluttering up our front page with no way to remove it.

We've also got a bizarre issue where our url is now http://groups.drupal.org/home due to a bad edit at some point, with no clear way of making it a more descriptive url.

Drupal products summit

Posted by kvantomme on August 9, 2011 at 3:26pm

I'm considering organizing a Drupal products summit some time this fall. The main purpose of the meeting would be to create a knowledge sharing platform for Drupal shops/individuals that are working on a product: anything built with Drupal that has a repeatable business model (can be specialized services for Drupal shops, distributions, applications, websites built with Drupal that target a certain market segment).

The main practical outcomes I hope to achieve with this meeting are:

The creation of a workgroup that will build an ethical Drupal Application Store
Increase of knowledge about lean startup methodologies in the Drupal community
Strengthening the network of Drupal product companies and the creation of a mutual support community

Applying any additional CSS to groups page?

Posted by sdague on July 15, 2011 at 2:17pm

Is there any way to add some additional CSS to a group page on groups.drupal.org? I'd like to add some personalization to our Hudson Valley, NY drupal group. Thanks in advance.

Demographics Group Type

Posted by USGolfers on June 4, 2011 at 11:25pm

As I am new to Drupal and while looking for groups to help me learn and find contributions for my particular needs I was surprised to find no "Demographic" Group Type. Of the five types that do exist Geographic, Event Planning, Archive, Distribution and Working Group - none work serve Demographic based websites or development.

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